(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.
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