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Subchapter 1 - General Provisions
§ 9-14-101. Implied consent to jurisdiction for child support and maintenance or to establish paternity — Service of process - (a) Any person who establishes or acquires a marital domicile...
§ 9-14-102. Wage assignment and deduction — Definitions - (a) As used in this section: (1) “Political subdivision thereof”...
§ 9-14-103. Quarterly report of funds, moneys, etc., received for child support - (a) (1) (A) Upon application of any interested person to...
§ 9-14-105. Petition for support — Definitions - (a) The circuit courts in the several counties in this...
§ 9-14-106. Noncustodial parents — Amount of support — Definition - (a) (1) (A) In determining a reasonable amount of support...
§ 9-14-107. Change in payor income warranting modification — Definition - (a) (1) A change in gross income of the payor...
§ 9-14-108. Transfer between local jurisdictions - (a) (1) The court where the final adjudication of child...
§ 9-14-109. Automatic assignment of rights - (a) By accepting public assistance for or on behalf of...
§ 9-14-110. Arkansas Registry of Child Support Orders — Definition - (a) As used in this section, “child support order” means...
Subchapter 2 - Enforcement Generally
§ 9-14-201. Definitions - As used in this Code: (1) (A) “Accrued arrearage” means...
§ 9-14-202. Exclusivity of remedies - The remedies provided in this subchapter shall not be exclusive...
§ 9-14-204. Hearings for enforcement of support orders - (a) (1) Hearings in all child support cases and paternity...
§ 9-14-205. Information required in support cases - (a) In all cases in which the support and care...
§ 9-14-206. Office of Child Support Enforcement — Establishment — Plan — Program — Child support officers - (a) There is established an organizational unit to be called...
§ 9-14-207. Office of Child Support Enforcement — Administrator — Child support officers - (a) The Administrator of the Office of Child Support Enforcement...
§ 9-14-208. Office of Child Support Enforcement — Powers to obtain information on noncustodial parent — Penalty — Immunity — Definitions - (a) As used in this section: (1) “Business” means any...
§ 9-14-209. Office of Child Support Enforcement — Duty to provide information to consumer reporting agency — Definition - (a) (1) As used in this section, “consumer reporting agency”...
§ 9-14-210. Office of Child Support Enforcement — Employment of attorneys — Real party in interest — Scope of representation - (a) The Department of Human Services or the Office of...
§ 9-14-211. Assigned support rights generally - (a) Support rights assigned to the Department of Human Services...
§ 9-14-212. Assigned support rights — Non-Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program application fee - (a) The Office of Child Support Enforcement of the Revenue...
§ 9-14-213. Assigned support rights — Notice — Termination of assignment - (a) (1) When a court has ordered support payments to...
§ 9-14-214. Assigned support rights — Award of fee in action — Definition - (a) In any action brought on behalf of a person...
§ 9-14-215. Fees in actions under Uniform Interstate Family Support Act - (a) (1) There shall be no filing fee, service fee,...
§ 9-14-216. Income withholding — Establishment and maintenance of system - (a) (1) The Office of Child Support Enforcement of the...
§ 9-14-217. Income withholding — Supersession of § 9-14-102 - The income withholding provisions of this subchapter shall supersede the...
§ 9-14-218. Income withholding — Time of taking effect generally — Forms - (a) (1) In all decrees or orders that provide for...
§ 9-14-219. Income withholding — Priority of order - Orders of income withholding for support shall have priority over...
§ 9-14-220. Income withholding — Persons subject to order — Ground to contest order - (a) All persons under court order to pay support on...
§ 9-14-221. Income withholding — When orders take effect — Notice — Costs - (a) Orders of income withholding that were not effective immediately...
§ 9-14-222. Income withholding — Notice to payor — Costs - (a) A payor shall be notified of an order of...
§ 9-14-223. Income withholding — Objection of payor - Upon receipt of an objection from a payor under an...
§ 9-14-224. Income withholding — Duties of payor - (a) A payor who has been notified of an order...
§ 9-14-225. Income withholding — Liability of payor — Distribution of moneys - (a) A payor who has been notified of an order...
§ 9-14-226. Income withholding — Prohibition of disciplinary action against employee — Penalty - (a) A payor who is an employer is prohibited from...
§ 9-14-227. Income withholding — Administrative costs — Applicability to unemployment compensation and workers' compensation - (a) A payor may withhold up to two dollars and...
§ 9-14-228. Income withholding — Procedures for payor - (a) (1) A payor shall withhold the amount indicated in...
§ 9-14-229. Income withholding — Termination of order — Notice to payor - (a) The circuit court may terminate an income withholding order...
§ 9-14-230. Decree as lien on real property - (a) (1) (A) Any decree, judgment, or order that contains...
§ 9-14-231. Overdue support as lien on personal property - (a) (1) (A) Support that has been ordered paid through...
§ 9-14-232. Healthcare coverage - (a) In all cases in which the support and care...
§ 9-14-233. Arrearages — Interest and attorney's fees — Work activities and incarceration - (a) All child support that becomes due and remains unpaid...
§ 9-14-234. Arrearages — Redirection of child support — Finality of judgment — Definition - (a) As used in this section, “physical custodian” means a...
§ 9-14-235. Arrearages — Payment after duty to support ceases — Definition - (a) If a child support arrearage or judgment exists at...
§ 9-14-236. Arrearages — Child support limited — Limitations period — Definitions - (a) As used in this section: (1) “Accrued child support...
§ 9-14-237. Expiration of child support obligation - (a) (1) Unless a court order for child support specifically...
§ 9-14-238. Collection of support obligations - (a) The Administrator of the Office of Child Support Enforcement...
§ 9-14-239. Suspension of license for failure to pay child support — Definitions - (a) As used in this section: (1) “Department” means the...
§ 9-14-240. Expiration of income withholding - (a) (1) Income withholding for child support shall terminate by...
§ 9-14-241. Referrals for criminal prosecution - (a) The Office of Child Support Enforcement of the Revenue...
§ 9-14-242. Report of nonsupport payments - (a) (1) The Office of Child Support Enforcement of the...
Subchapter 4 - State Commission on Child Support
§ 9-14-402. Staff - The Administrator of the Office of Child Support Enforcement of...
§ 9-14-403. Duties - The State Commission on Child Support [repealed] shall have the...
Subchapter 5 - Healthcare Coverage
§ 9-14-501. Definition - As used in this subchapter, “healthcare coverage” includes, but need...
§ 9-14-502. Income withholding authorized - (a) In all decrees and orders that direct the noncustodial...
§ 9-14-503. Minor children — Certain provisions denying or restricting coverage void - (a) (1) No contract of individual or group healthcare coverage...
§ 9-14-504. Communication with custodial parent or assignee - (a) Without regard to the fact that coverage may be...
§ 9-14-505. No direct offset to child support - (a) Healthcare coverage premiums shall not be deemed or used...
§ 9-14-506. Effective date of income withholding order — Applicability - (a) (1) An order of income withholding for healthcare coverage...
§ 9-14-507. Priority of income withholding claims - An order of income withholding for healthcare coverage shall have...
§ 9-14-508. Persons subject to income withholding — Ground for contest - (a) Any person under a court order to provide and...
§ 9-14-509. Notice to noncustodial parent - (a) Prior to notification to the employer, the noncustodial parent...
§ 9-14-510. Determination of contest - (a) Should the noncustodial parent contest the withholding because of...
§ 9-14-511. Notice to employer - (a) Notice shall be sent to the employer or payor...
§ 9-14-512. Objection of employer - (a) Upon receipt of an objection from a payor under...
§ 9-14-513. Employer bound by court order until further notice - A payor who has been notified of an order of...
§ 9-14-514. Notification of court by employer of termination - A payor shall notify the court or its representative or,...
§ 9-14-515. Employer prohibited from taking action against parent for income withholding - (a) A payor who is an employer is prohibited from...
§ 9-14-516. Enforcing medical support in Title IV-D cases - (a) In all cases in which either parent is ordered...
Subchapter 8 - Centralized Clearinghouse
§ 9-14-801. Definitions and capabilities - As used in this subchapter: (1) (A) “Clearinghouse” means an...
§ 9-14-802. Authority - The Office of Child Support Enforcement of the Revenue Division...
§ 9-14-803. Data - (a) The clerk of the court shall provide to the...
§ 9-14-804. Payments — Effect - (a) (1) All child support payments made on cases brought...
§ 9-14-805. Permanent transfer - (a) (1) A Title IV-D child support, paternity, or Medicaid-only...
§ 9-14-806. Electronic funds transfer and electronic data information election - (a) Employers may remit income withholding for child support by...
§ 9-14-807. Official payment record - (a) In all cases mentioned in this subchapter wherein the...