(a) A payor who has been notified of an order of income withholding shall be liable for any amount up to the accumulated amount that should have been withheld should he or she fail or refuse to withhold the income in accordance with the notice.
(b) Once money has been withheld, except as provided in subsection (c) of this section, it shall be considered the property of the custodial parent. The custodial parent to whom the money is owed may seek any and all available redress against any employer who fails to transmit money pursuant to an order of income withholding.
(c) Moneys withheld in cases brought under Title IV-D of the Social Security Act shall become the property of the Office of Child Support Enforcement of the Revenue Division of the Department of Finance and Administration to be distributed in accordance with child support policy.
Structure Arkansas Code
Subtitle 2 - Domestic Relations
Chapter 14 - Spousal and Child Support
Subchapter 2 - Enforcement Generally
§ 9-14-202. Exclusivity of remedies
§ 9-14-204. Hearings for enforcement of support orders
§ 9-14-205. Information required in support cases
§ 9-14-207. Office of Child Support Enforcement — Administrator — Child support officers
§ 9-14-211. Assigned support rights generally
§ 9-14-213. Assigned support rights — Notice — Termination of assignment
§ 9-14-214. Assigned support rights — Award of fee in action — Definition
§ 9-14-215. Fees in actions under Uniform Interstate Family Support Act
§ 9-14-216. Income withholding — Establishment and maintenance of system
§ 9-14-217. Income withholding — Supersession of § 9-14-102
§ 9-14-218. Income withholding — Time of taking effect generally — Forms
§ 9-14-219. Income withholding — Priority of order
§ 9-14-220. Income withholding — Persons subject to order — Ground to contest order
§ 9-14-221. Income withholding — When orders take effect — Notice — Costs
§ 9-14-222. Income withholding — Notice to payor — Costs
§ 9-14-223. Income withholding — Objection of payor
§ 9-14-224. Income withholding — Duties of payor
§ 9-14-225. Income withholding — Liability of payor — Distribution of moneys
§ 9-14-226. Income withholding — Prohibition of disciplinary action against employee — Penalty
§ 9-14-228. Income withholding — Procedures for payor
§ 9-14-229. Income withholding — Termination of order — Notice to payor
§ 9-14-230. Decree as lien on real property
§ 9-14-231. Overdue support as lien on personal property
§ 9-14-232. Healthcare coverage
§ 9-14-233. Arrearages — Interest and attorney's fees — Work activities and incarceration
§ 9-14-234. Arrearages — Redirection of child support — Finality of judgment — Definition
§ 9-14-235. Arrearages — Payment after duty to support ceases — Definition
§ 9-14-236. Arrearages — Child support limited — Limitations period — Definitions
§ 9-14-237. Expiration of child support obligation
§ 9-14-238. Collection of support obligations
§ 9-14-239. Suspension of license for failure to pay child support — Definitions
§ 9-14-240. Expiration of income withholding