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9-14-238. Collection of support obligations.
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9-14-238. Collection of support obligations.
(a) The Administrator of the Office of Child Support Enforcement of the Revenue Division of the Department of Finance and Administration is authorized to enter into professional service contracts with private individuals or businesses and public agencies concerning the establishment, and enforcement through court-ordered proceedings, of the collection, monitoring, and distribution of support obligations, including service of process as defined by § 9-14-206(d).
(b)(1) The Arkansas Title IV-D child support enforcement agency may collect unreimbursed public or medical assistance under a cooperative agreement with the state's Title IV-A or Medicaid agencies for any unreimbursed public or medical assistance owed the state.
(2) Under any cooperative agreement that disallows the expenditure of federal Title IV-D funds, Title IV-D expenditures for activities associated with the recovery of state Medicaid or unreimbursed public assistance funds shall be paid to the Title IV-D agency by the state agency for which the funds are recovered.
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 9-14-238
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9-14-238. Collection of support obligations.
(a) The Administrator of the Office of Child Support Enforcement of the Revenue Division of the Department of Finance and Administration is authorized to enter into professional service contracts with private individuals or businesses and public agencies concerning the establishment, and enforcement through court-ordered proceedings, of the collection, monitoring, and distribution of support obligations, including service of process as defined by § 9-14-206(d).
(b)(1) The Arkansas Title IV-D child support enforcement agency may collect unreimbursed public or medical assistance under a cooperative agreement with the state's Title IV-A or Medicaid agencies for any unreimbursed public or medical assistance owed the state.
(2) Under any cooperative agreement that disallows the expenditure of federal Title IV-D funds, Title IV-D expenditures for activities associated with the recovery of state Medicaid or unreimbursed public assistance funds shall be paid to the Title IV-D agency by the state agency for which the funds are recovered.
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Arkansas Code — all titles (historical 2020) · legal_authorities
9-14-206. Office of Child Support Enforcement — Establishment — Plan — Program — Child support officers.
(a) There is established an organizational unit to be called the Office of Child Support Enforcement of the Revenue Division of the Department of Finance and Administration that shall administer the state plan for child support enforcement required under Title IV-D of the Social Security Act.
(b) The office is designated as the single public entity for the administration of income withholding of support payments in accordance with federal law.
(c)(1) The office is hereby designated as a law enforcement agency and may employ a child support officer in counties where the court grants at least two thousand five hundred (2,500) divorces each year to assist in the service of civil and criminal process and to enforce child support orders in this state.
(2) The officers shall be duly certified law enforcement officers pursuant to § 12-9-101 et seq. and shall have the same power to execute, serve, and return all lawful warrants including warrants of arrest issued by the State of Arkansas or any political subdivision thereof.
(d)(1)(A) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (c) of this section, in all counties in cases in which the sheriff has returned the service papers “non est”, the office may employ a child support officer or contract with a process server to assist in the service of civil and criminal process and to enforce child support orders in this state.
(B) A child support officer so employed shall be a duly certified law enforcement officer pursuant to § 12-9-101 et seq.
(2) Process servers contracting with the office or its agent shall be appointed by the circuit court pursuant to Rule 4 of the Arkansas Rules of Civil Procedure or Rule 6.3 of
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 9-14-206
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 9-14-206. This identifies an authority to review, not proof of applicability.