California Code
PART 5 - ENFORCEMENT OF SUPPORT ORDERS
CHAPTER 8 - Earnings Assignment Order

ARTICLE 1 - Definitions

Section 5200. - 5200. Unless the provision or context otherwise requires, the definitions...

Section 5201. - 5201. “Arrearage” or “arrearages” is the amount necessary to satisfy...

Section 5202. - 5202. “Assignment order” has the same meaning as “earnings assignment...

Section 5204. - 5204. “Due date of support payments” is the date specifically...

Section 5206. - 5206. “Earnings,” to the extent that they are subject to...

Section 5208. - 5208. (a) “Earnings assignment order for support” means an order...

Section 5210. - 5210. “Employer” includes all of the following: (a) A person...

Section 5212. - 5212. “IV-D Case” means any case being established, modified, or...

Section 5214. - 5214. “Obligee” or “assigned obligee” means either the person to...

Section 5216. - 5216. “Obligor” means a person owing a duty of support....

Section 5220. - 5220. “Timely payment” means receipt of support payments by the...

ARTICLE 2 - General Provisions

Section 5230. - 5230. (a) When the court orders a party to pay...

Section 5230.1. - 5230.1. (a) An earnings assignment or income withholding order for...

Section 5230.5. - 5230.5. Any obligee alleging arrearages in child support shall specify...

Section 5231. - 5231. Unless stayed pursuant to Article 4 (commencing with Section...

Section 5232. - 5232. Service on an employer of an assignment order may...

Section 5233. - 5233. Unless the order states a later date, beginning as...

Section 5234. - 5234. Within 10 days of service of an assignment order...

Section 5235. - 5235. (a) The employer shall continue to withhold and forward...

Section 5236. - 5236. The state agency or the local agency, designated to...

Section 5237. - 5237. (a) Except as provided in subdivisions (b) and (c),...

Section 5238. - 5238. (a) Where an assignment order or assignment orders include...

Section 5239. - 5239. Arrearages of support payments shall be computed on the...

Section 5240. - 5240. (a) Upon the filing and service of a motion...

Section 5241. - 5241. (a) An employer who willfully fails to withhold and...

Section 5242. - 5242. Service of the assignment order creates a lien on...

Section 5243. - 5243. An assignment order for support has priority as against...

Section 5244. - 5244. A reference to the local child support agency in...

Section 5245. - 5245. Nothing in this chapter limits the authority of the...

Section 5246. - 5246. (a) This section applies only to Title IV-D cases...

Section 5247. - 5247. Neither the local child support agency nor an employer...

ARTICLE 3 - Support Orders Issued or Modified Before July 1, 1990

Section 5250. - 5250. For a support order first issued or modified before...

Section 5251. - 5251. The obligee seeking issuance of an assignment order to...

Section 5252. - 5252. (a) An assignment order under this article may be...

Section 5253. - 5253. Upon receipt of the application, the court shall issue,...

ARTICLE 4 - Stay of Service of Assignment Order

Section 5260. - 5260. (a) The court may order that service of the...

Section 5261. - 5261. (a) If service of the assignment order has been...

ARTICLE 5 - Motion to Quash Assignment Order

Section 5270. - 5270. (a) An obligor may move to quash an assignment...

Section 5271. - 5271. (a) The motion and notice of motion to quash...

Section 5272. - 5272. A finding of error in the amount of the...

ARTICLE 6 - Information Concerning Address and Employment of Obligor

Section 5280. - 5280. If the obligee making the application under this chapter...

Section 5281. - 5281. An assignment order required or authorized by this chapter...

Section 5282. - 5282. After the obligor has left employment with the employer,...

ARTICLE 7 - Prohibited Practices

Section 5290. - 5290. No employer shall use an assignment order authorized by...

ARTICLE 8 - Judicial Council Forms

Section 5295. - 5295. The Judicial Council shall prescribe forms necessary to carry...

ARTICLE 9 - Intercounty Support Obligations

Section 5600. - 5600. (a) A local child support agency or obligee may...

Section 5601. - 5601. (a) When the local child support agency is responsible...

Section 5602. - 5602. (a) An obligee other than the local child support...

Section 5603. - 5603. (a) An obligor shall have 20 days after the...

Section 5604. - 5604. A previous determination of paternity made by another state,...