(a) A person served with a notice and finding of financial responsibility is entitled to a hearing if a request in writing for a hearing is served on the agency by registered mail, return receipt requested, within 30 days of the date of service of the notice of financial responsibility.
(b) If a request for a formal hearing under (a) of this section is made, the execution under AS 25.27.062 and 25.27.230 - 25.27.270 may not be stayed unless the obligor posts security or a bond in the amount of child support that would have been due under the finding of financial responsibility pending the decision on the hearing. If no request for a hearing is made, the finding of responsibility is final at the expiration of the 30-day period.
(c) If a hearing is requested, it shall be held within 30 days of the date of service of the request for hearing on the agency.
(d) Except as provided in (g) of this section, the hearing officer shall determine the amount of periodic payments necessary to satisfy the past, present, and future liability of the alleged obligor under AS 25.27.120, if any, and under any duty of support imposable under the law. The amount of periodic payments determined under this subsection is not limited by the amount of any public assistance payment made to or for the benefit of the child.
(e) The hearing officer shall consider the following in making a determination under (d) of this section:
(1) the needs of the alleged obligee, disregarding the income or assets of the custodian of the alleged obligee;
(2) the amount of the alleged obligor's liability to the state under AS 25.27.120 if any;
(3) the intent of the legislature that children be supported as much as possible by their natural parents;
(4) the ability of the alleged obligor to pay.
(f) Except as provided in (g) of this section, if the alleged obligor requesting the hearing fails to appear at the hearing, the hearing officer shall enter a decision declaring the property and income of the alleged obligor subject to execution under AS 25.27.062 and 25.27.230 - 25.27.270 in the amounts stated in the notice and finding of financial responsibility.
(g) If the agency is establishing only a medical support order, the hearing officer shall enter a decision about the parents' respective responsibilities for the child's health care expenses that complies with the requirements of AS 25.27.060(c).
Structure Alaska Statutes
Title 25. Marital and Domestic Relations
Chapter 27. Child Support Services Agency
Sec. 25.27.010. Creation of child support services agency.
Sec. 25.27.020. Duties and responsibilities of the agency.
Sec. 25.27.022. Establishment and enforcement requests from other states.
Sec. 25.27.025. Rate of interest.
Sec. 25.27.030. Establishment of fund.
Sec. 25.27.040. Determination of paternity.
Sec. 25.27.045. Determination of support obligation.
Sec. 25.27.050. Legal assistance.
Sec. 25.27.060. Order of support.
Sec. 25.27.061. Payment of support to 18-year-olds.
Sec. 25.27.062. Income withholding order for support.
Sec. 25.27.063. Medical support order.
Sec. 25.27.065. Waiver of child support.
Sec. 25.27.070. Order to assign wages for support.
Sec. 25.27.075. Employment information.
Sec. 25.27.080. Enforcement of support orders.
Sec. 25.27.086. Subpoenas issued by agency of another state.
Sec. 25.27.095. Agency exempt from execution.
Sec. 25.27.100. All persons may use agency.
Sec. 25.27.103. Payments to agency.
Sec. 25.27.105. Audit of collections.
Sec. 25.27.107. Certification of arrears.
Sec. 25.27.120. Obligor liable for public assistance furnished obligee.
Sec. 25.27.125. Accounting and disposition of federal receipts and agency collections.
Sec. 25.27.130. Subrogation of state.
Sec. 25.27.135. Limitation on actions to establish child support obligation.
Sec. 25.27.150. Initiation of administrative enforcement of orders; required notice.
Sec. 25.27.160. Initiation of administrative action to establish support duty; required notice.
Sec. 25.27.165. Determination of paternity in an administrative proceeding.
Sec. 25.27.166. Disestablishment of paternity.
Sec. 25.27.167. Contempt of order for genetic testing.
Sec. 25.27.170. Hearings in administrative action to establish support duty.
Sec. 25.27.180. Administrative findings and decision.
Sec. 25.27.190. Modification of administrative finding or decision.
Sec. 25.27.193. Periodic review or adjustment of support orders.
Sec. 25.27.194. Processing time for modification of support orders.
Sec. 25.27.195. Relief from administrative order.
Sec. 25.27.200. Use of standards in administrative determinations of support amounts.
Sec. 25.27.210. Judicial review of administrative decisions and actions.
Sec. 25.27.220. Procedure in judicial reviews.
Sec. 25.27.225. Support payment obligations as judgments.
Sec. 25.27.226. Collection of past due support.
Sec. 25.27.227. Nature of remedies.
Sec. 25.27.230. Assertion, recording, and effect of lien.
Sec. 25.27.240. Service of lien.
Sec. 25.27.244. Adverse action against delinquent obligor's occupational license.
Sec. 25.27.246. Adverse action against delinquent obligor's driver's license.
Sec. 25.27.250. Order to withhold and deliver.
Sec. 25.27.253. Earnings subject to an order or lien.
Sec. 25.27.255. Disposition of payments under income withholding orders.
Sec. 25.27.260. Civil liability upon failure to comply with an order or lien.
Sec. 25.27.265. Method of service; notification of change of address.
Sec. 25.27.270. Judicial relief from administrative execution.
Sec. 25.27.273. Reporting of payment information concerning delinquent obligors.
Sec. 25.27.275. Nondisclosure of information in exceptional circumstances.
Sec. 25.27.278. Payments not disbursed.
Sec. 25.27.279. Voiding of fraudulent transfers made to avoid payment of child support.
Sec. 25.27.280. Severability: Alternative when method of notification held invalid.
Sec. 25.27.300. Requests pertaining to remarriage.
Sec. 25.27.320. Interest on agency return of certain overpayments.