RCW 74.20A.180
Secretary may make demand, file and serve liens, when payments appear in jeopardy.
If the secretary finds that the collection of any support debt, accrued under a support order, based upon subrogation or an authorization to enforce and collect under RCW 74.20A.030, or assignment of, or a request for support enforcement services to enforce and collect the amount of support ordered by any support order is in jeopardy, the secretary may make a written demand under RCW 74.20A.040 for immediate payment of the support debt and, upon failure or refusal immediately to pay said support debt, may file and serve liens pursuant to RCW 74.20A.060 and 74.20A.070, without regard to the twenty day period provided for in RCW 74.20A.040: PROVIDED, That no further action under RCW 74.20A.080, 74.20A.130, and 74.20A.140 may be taken until the notice requirements of RCW 74.20A.040 are met.
[ 2000 c 86 § 10; 1985 c 276 § 9; 1973 1st ex.s. c 183 § 16; 1971 ex.s. c 164 § 18.]
Structure Revised Code of Washington
Chapter 74.20A - Support of Dependent Children—Alternative Method—1971 Act.
74.20A.010 - Purpose—Remedies additional.
74.20A.030 - Department subrogated to rights for support—Enforcement actions—Certain parents exempt.
74.20A.035 - Augmentation of paternity establishment services.
74.20A.040 - Notice of support debt—Service or mailing—Contents—Action on, when.
74.20A.057 - Jurisdiction over responsible parent.
74.20A.060 - Assertion of lien—Effect.
74.20A.095 - Support enforcement services—Action against earnings within state—Notice.
74.20A.100 - Civil liability upon failure to comply with order or lien—Collection.
74.20A.110 - Release of excess to debtor.
74.20A.140 - Action for foreclosure of support lien—Satisfaction.
74.20A.150 - Satisfaction of lien after foreclosure proceedings instituted—Redemption.
74.20A.160 - Secretary may set debt payment schedule, release funds in certain hardship cases.
74.20A.170 - Secretary may release lien or order or return seized property—Effect.
74.20A.180 - Secretary may make demand, file and serve liens, when payments appear in jeopardy.
74.20A.200 - Judicial relief after administrative remedies exhausted.
74.20A.230 - Employee debtor rights protected—Remedies.
74.20A.240 - Assignment of earnings to be honored—Effect—Income withholding forms—Processing fee.
74.20A.250 - Secretary empowered to act as attorney, endorse drafts.
74.20A.275 - Support payments in possession of third parties—Collection.
74.20A.280 - Department to respect privacy of recipients.
74.20A.290 - Applicant for adjudicative proceeding must advise department of current address.
74.20A.300 - Medical support—Health care coverage required.
74.20A.310 - Federal and state cooperation—Rules—Construction.
74.20A.322 - License suspension—Adjudicative proceeding.
74.20A.324 - License suspension—Certification of noncompliance.
74.20A.326 - License suspension—Payment schedule arrangements.
74.20A.328 - License suspension—Rules.
74.20A.350 - Noncompliance—Notice—Fines—License suspension—Hearings—Rules.
74.20A.360 - Records access—Confidentiality—Nonliability—Penalty for noncompliance.
74.20A.370 - Financial institution data matches.
74.20A.900 - Severability—Alternative when method of notification held invalid.
74.20A.920 - Construction—Chapter applicable to state registered domestic partnerships—2009 c 521.