§ 5700.506

Added by Stats. 2015, Ch. 493, Sec. 5. (SB 646) Effective January 1, 2016.
(a)An obligor may contest the validity or enforcement of an income-withholding order issued in another state and received directly by an employer in this state by registering the order in a tribunal of this state and filing a contest to that order as provided in Chapter 6, or otherwise contesting the order in the same manner as if the order had been issued by a tribunal of this state.
(b)The obligor shall give notice of the contest to:
(1)a support enforcement agency providing services to the obligee;
(2)each employer that has directly

received an income-withholding order relating to the obligor; and

(3)the person designated to receive payments in the income-withholding order or, if no person is designated, to the obligee.

Other sections in Chapter 5 - Enforcement of Support Order Without Registration

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