(a) A payor who is an employer is prohibited from discharging, refusing to employ, or taking other disciplinary action against a noncustodial parent under an income withholding order.
(b) Any employer violating this subchapter shall be subject to the contempt powers of the court issuing the order and may be fined up to fifty dollars ($50.00) per day.
(c) The noncustodial parent shall have the burden to prove that income withholding was the sole reason for the employer's action.
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