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9-14-216. Income withholding — Establishment and maintenance of system.
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9-14-216. Income withholding — Establishment and maintenance of system.
(a)(1) The Office of Child Support Enforcement of the Revenue Division of the Department of Finance and Administration shall establish and maintain a system to promptly implement income withholding for support orders issued in other states.
(2) The office shall also seek assistance from other states in implementing income withholding in other states for support orders issued in this state.
(b) The other state shall forward to the office three (3) certified copies of the support order issued by its court or administrative forum and a notice that contains the noncustodial parent's name, Social Security number, and current address, the name and address of the payor to the noncustodial parent, the amount to be withheld, and the name and address where payments are to be mailed by the office.
(c) Upon receipt of the notice and certified copies of the order, the office shall establish the case within its system and follow the procedures enumerated in §§ 9-14-221 — 9-14-223 and 9-14-229.
(d) Payors notified of income withholding orders arising from other states shall be bound by and under the same requirements as though the order were issued by a court of this state under this subchapter.
(e) The office shall forward all payments received under this subchapter to the address provided by the other state.
(f) The office shall notify the state where the support order was entered when the noncustodial parent terminates employment within this state and shall provide the new address and new employer to the state, if known.
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 9-14-216
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9-14-216. Income withholding — Establishment and maintenance of system.
(a)(1) The Office of Child Support Enforcement of the Revenue Division of the Department of Finance and Administration shall establish and maintain a system to promptly implement income withholding for support orders issued in other states.
(2) The office shall also seek assistance from other states in implementing income withholding in other states for support orders issued in this state.
(b) The other state shall forward to the office three (3) certified copies of the support order issued by its court or administrative forum and a notice that contains the noncustodial parent's name, Social Security number, and current address, the name and address of the payor to the noncustodial parent, the amount to be withheld, and the name and address where payments are to be mailed by the office.
(c) Upon receipt of the notice and certified copies of the order, the office shall establish the case within its system and follow the procedures enumerated in §§ 9-14-221 — 9-14-223 and 9-14-229.
(d) Payors notified of income withholding orders arising from other states shall be bound by and under the same requirements as though the order were issued by a court of this state under this subchapter.
(e) The office shall forward all payments received under this subchapter to the address provided by the other state.
(f) The office shall notify the state where the support order was entered when the noncustodial parent terminates employment within this state and shall provide the new address and new employer to the state, if known.
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9-14-221. Income withholding — When orders take effect — Notice — Costs.
(a) Orders of income withholding that were not effective immediately by order of the court, upon the consent of the noncustodial parent, or at the request of the custodial parent, shall become effective when payment arrearages owed by the noncustodial parent equal the total court-ordered support payable for thirty (30) days.
(b)(1) Prior to notification to the payor, for orders to be effective under this section, the noncustodial parent shall be sent a notice by any form of mail addressed to the parent at his or her last known address as contained in the records of the court clerk.
(2) Actual costs of mailing the notice may be collected by the clerk from the custodial parent.
(3) The notice shall contain the following information:
(A) The amount to be withheld;
(B) The amount of arrearages alleged to have accrued under the support order and that an additional amount of not less than twenty percent (20%) of the support ordered will be withheld to liquidate the arrearages or such amount as set forth by an order if applicable;
(C) That the income withholding applies to current and subsequent periods of employment, if used in employment, or remuneration;
(D) The procedure available to contest the withholding on the ground that the withholding is not proper because of mistake of fact;
(E) That failure to contest the withholding within ten (10) days of the receipt or refusal of the notice will result in the payor's being notified to begin the withholding;
(F) That if the noncustodial parent contests the withholding, he or she will be afforded an opportunity to present his or her case to the court or its representative in that jurisdiction within thirty (30) days of receipt of the noti
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 9-14-221
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9-14-223. Income withholding — Objection of payor.
Upon receipt of an objection from a payor under an order of income withholding, the court or its representative shall expeditiously determine whether the payor shall be relieved under the order and shall so inform the payor within ten (10) days of receipt of the objection by a notice of its determination sent to the payor by regular mail.
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 9-14-223
Stored review status: Historical 2020-11-06 source release; later amendments not reconciled; machine-extracted, not independently legally reviewed; source heading status: text_in_historical_source. The source passage cites 9-14-223. This identifies an authority to review, not proof of applicability.
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9-14-229. Income withholding — Termination of order — Notice to payor.
(a) The circuit court may terminate an income withholding order upon proof that the court or its representative has been unable to deliver payments to the custodial parent for a period of six (6) months.
(b) An income withholding order shall terminate when there is no further support obligation owed.
(c) The circuit court or its representative shall notify the payor to cease withholding and shall refund support payments to the noncustodial parent in those cases in which no state debt as defined in § 9-14-211 remains unpaid.
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 9-14-229
Stored review status: Historical 2020-11-06 source release; later amendments not reconciled; machine-extracted, not independently legally reviewed; source heading status: text_in_historical_source. The source passage cites 9-14-229. This identifies an authority to review, not proof of applicability.