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9-14-235. Arrearages — Payment after duty to support ceases — Definition.
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9-14-235. Arrearages — Payment after duty to support ceases — Definition.
(a) If a child support arrearage or judgment exists at the time when any child entitled to support reaches the age of majority, is emancipated, or dies, or when the obligor's current duty to pay child support otherwise ceases, the obligor shall continue to pay an amount equal to the court-ordered child support, or an amount to be determined by a court based on the application of guidelines for child support under the family support chart, until such time as the child support arrearage or judgment has been satisfied.
(b) Enforcement through income withholding, intercept of unemployment benefits or workers' compensation benefits, income tax intercept, additional payments ordered to be paid on the child support arrearage or judgment, contempt proceedings, or any other means of collection shall be available for the collection of a child support arrearage or judgment until the child support arrearage or judgment is satisfied.
(c) Income withholding under § 9-14-221 may be used to satisfy a child support arrearage or judgment.
(d) As used in this section, “judgment” means unpaid child support and medical bills, interest, attorney's fees, or costs associated with a child support case when such has been reduced to judgment by the court or become a judgment by operation of law.
(e) The purpose of this section is to allow the enforcement and collection of child support arrearages and judgments after the obligor's duty to pay support ceases.
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 9-14-235
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9-14-235. Arrearages — Payment after duty to support ceases — Definition.
(a) If a child support arrearage or judgment exists at the time when any child entitled to support reaches the age of majority, is emancipated, or dies, or when the obligor's current duty to pay child support otherwise ceases, the obligor shall continue to pay an amount equal to the court-ordered child support, or an amount to be determined by a court based on the application of guidelines for child support under the family support chart, until such time as the child support arrearage or judgment has been satisfied.
(b) Enforcement through income withholding, intercept of unemployment benefits or workers' compensation benefits, income tax intercept, additional payments ordered to be paid on the child support arrearage or judgment, contempt proceedings, or any other means of collection shall be available for the collection of a child support arrearage or judgment until the child support arrearage or judgment is satisfied.
(c) Income withholding under § 9-14-221 may be used to satisfy a child support arrearage or judgment.
(d) As used in this section, “judgment” means unpaid child support and medical bills, interest, attorney's fees, or costs associated with a child support case when such has been reduced to judgment by the court or become a judgment by operation of law.
(e) The purpose of this section is to allow the enforcement and collection of child support arrearages and judgments after the obligor's duty to pay support ceases.
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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
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 9-14-221. This identifies an authority to review, not proof of applicability.