Alaska Statutes Title 25, Chapter 25.27 - Child Support Services Agency

• Sec. 25.27.010 Creation of Child Support Services Agency.
  There is created in the Department of Revenue the child support services agency.
• Sec. 25.27.020 Duties and Responsibilities of the Agency.
  (a) The agency shall(1) seek enforcement of child support orders of the state in other jurisdictions and shall obtain, enforce, and administer the orders...
• Sec. 25.27.022 Establishment and Enforcement Requests From Other States.
  (a) The agency may act, under the laws of this state, upon requests from similar state agencies in other states that operate child support...
• Sec. 25.27.025 Rate of Interest.
  The rate of interest imposed under AS 25.27.020 (a)(2)(B) shall be six percent a year or a lesser rate that is the maximum rate...
• Sec. 25.27.030 Establishment of Fund.
  There is established in the state general fund a continuing, revolving, reserve account to receive collections and make the authorized disbursements of the agency.
• Sec. 25.27.040 Determination of Paternity.
  (a) The agency may appear on behalf of minor children or their mother or legal custodian or the state and initiate efforts to have...
• Sec. 25.27.045 Determination of Support Obligation.
  The agency may appear in an action seeking an award of support on behalf of a child owed a duty of support, or to...
• Sec. 25.27.050 Legal Assistance.
  The agency shall contract with the Department of Law to provide needed legal services.
• Sec. 25.27.060 Order of Support.
  (a) Unless otherwise provided under AS 25.24.910 or AS 25.27.061, an order of support establishes a relationship by which the custodian of the child...
• Sec. 25.27.061 Payment of Support to 18-Year-Olds.
  A judgment, court order, or order of the agency under this chapter that provides for child support to be paid for the care of...
• Sec. 25.27.062 Income Withholding Order for Support.
  (a) Unless the court or agency is establishing only a medical support order, a judgment, court order, or order of the agency under this...
• Sec. 25.27.063 Medical Support Order.
  (a) [Repealed, Sec. 23 ch 106 SLA 2000]. (b) If a parent who is required to provide health care coverage under a medical support...
• Sec. 25.27.065 Waiver of Child Support.
  (a) A custodian of a child, including a custodial parent, owes a duty to that child to ensure that child support is paid by...
• Sec. 25.27.070 Order to Assign Wages for Support.
  (a) In a proceeding in which the court has ordered either or both parents to pay for the support of a child, the court...
• Sec. 25.27.075 Employment Information.
  (a) An employer doing business in the state shall report to the agency the hiring, rehiring, or return to work of each employee. The...
• Sec. 25.27.080 Enforcement of Support Orders.
  (a) A court order requiring payment of child support shall be modified to order payments be made to the agency upon application.(b) The agency...
• Sec. 25.27.085 Subpoenas.
  (a) The agency may subpoena persons, books, records, and documents to(1) obtain any financial or other information needed to establish, modify, or enforce a...
• Sec. 25.27.086 Subpoenas Issued by Agency of Another State.
  (a) If the child support enforcement agency of another state issues a subpoena regarding persons, books, records, or documents in this state, the subpoena...
• Sec. 25.27.090 Reducing Arrears to Judgment. [Repealed, Sec. 24 Ch 126 Sla 1977. Formerly As 47.23.090 ].
  
  Repealed or Renumbered
• Sec. 25.27.095 Agency Exempt From Execution.
  Execution may not issue against money held in the fund established under AS 25.27.030 .
• Sec. 25.27.100 All Persons May Use Agency.
  (a) The agency shall provide aid to any person due child support under the laws of this state upon application. The agency may, by...
• Sec. 25.27.103 Payments to Agency.
  An obligor shall make child support payments to the agency if the agency is enforcing a duty of child support under AS 25.25 or...
• Sec. 25.27.105 Audit of Collections.
  Within 30 working days after receipt of a written request from an obligor, the obligor's legal representative, the obligee, or the obligee's legal representative,...
• Sec. 25.27.107 Certification of Arrears.
  Within 30 days after receipt of a written request from an obligee or an obligee's personal representative, the agency shall provide the obligee with...
• Sec. 25.27.110 [Renumbered As As 25.27.900 ].
  
  Repealed or Renumbered
• Sec. 25.27.120 Obligor Liable for Public Assistance Furnished Obligee.
  (a) An obligor is liable to the state in the amount of assistance granted under AS 47.07 and AS 47.27 to a child to...
• Sec. 25.27.125 Accounting and Disposition of Federal Receipts and Agency Collections.
  (a) Federal incentive payments received by the state under 42 U.S.C. 658 shall be deposited in the general fund and the commissioner of administration...
• Sec. 25.27.130 Subrogation of State.
  (a) If the obligor is liable to the state under AS 25.27.120 (a) or (b), the state is subrogated to the rights of the...
• Sec. 25.27.135 Limitation on Actions to Establish Child Support Obligation.
  If the same causes of action concerning a duty of child support are pending concurrently in court and before the agency, the second action...
• Sec. 25.27.140 Authority and Procedures to Administratively Establish and Enforce Support Obligation.
  (a) If a support order has not been entered, the agency may establish paternity and a duty of support, which may include periodic payments...
• Sec. 25.27.150 Initiation of Administrative Enforcement of Orders; Required Notice.
  (a) If an arrearage occurs under a support order being enforced by the agency for which immediate income withholding is not required under AS...
• Sec. 25.27.160 Initiation of Administrative Action to Establish Support Duty; Required Notice.
  (a) An action to establish a duty of support authorized under AS 25.27.140(a) is initiated by the agency serving on the alleged obligor a...
• Sec. 25.27.165 Determination of Paternity in an Administrative Proceeding.
  (a) Upon application from a mother, custodian, putative father, or legal custodian of a child, or from a state, the agency may institute administrative...
• Sec. 25.27.166 Disestablishment of Paternity.
  (a) The agency shall, by regulation, establish procedures and standards for the disestablishment of paternity of a child whose paternity was established in this...
• Sec. 25.27.167 Contempt of Order for Genetic Testing.
  (a) If a person who is located in this state fails to comply with an order for genetic testing issued by the agency in...
• Sec. 25.27.170 Hearings in Administrative Action to Establish Support Duty.
  (a) A person served with a notice and finding of financial responsibility is entitled to a hearing if a request in writing for a...
• Sec. 25.27.180 Administrative Findings and Decision.
  (a) Within 20 days after the date of the hearing, the hearing officer shall adopt findings and a decision determining whether paternity is established...
• Sec. 25.27.190 Modification of Administrative Finding or Decision.
  (a) Unless a support order has been entered by a court and except as provided in AS 25.25, the obligor, or the obligee or...
• Sec. 25.27.193 Periodic Review or Adjustment of Support Orders.
  As necessary to comply with 42 U.S.C. 666, the agency, by regulation, shall provide procedures and standards for the modification, through a three-year cycle...
• Sec. 25.27.194 Processing Time for Modification of Support Orders.
  The agency shall use its best efforts to process modifications of support orders under AS 25.27.190 and 25.27.193 in a manner that will result...
• Sec. 25.27.195 Relief From Administrative Order.
  (a) A clerical mistake in an administrative order issued by the agency or an error arising from an oversight or omission by the agency...
• Sec. 25.27.200 Use of Standards in Administrative Determinations of Support Amounts.
  In making its findings under AS 25.27.160 and in establishing and modifying amounts of periodic support payments under AS 25.27.180 and 25.27.190, the agency...
• Sec. 25.27.210 Judicial Review of Administrative Decisions and Actions.
  (a) Judicial review by the superior court of a final administrative decision establishing or disestablishing paternity and establishing or modifying a duty of support...
• Sec. 25.27.220 Procedure in Judicial Reviews.
  (a) An appeal shall be heard by the superior court sitting without a jury.(b) Inquiry in an appeal extends to the following questions: (1)...
• Sec. 25.27.225 Support Payment Obligations As Judgments.
  A support order ordering a noncustodial parent obligor to make periodic support payments to the custodian of a child is a judgment that becomes...
• Sec. 25.27.226 Collection of Past Due Support.
  To collect the payment due, the custodian of a child, or the agency on behalf of that person, shall file with the court (1)...
• Sec. 25.27.227 Nature of Remedies.
  AS 25.27.225 and 25.27.226 provide remedies in addition to and not as a substitute for any other remedies available to the parties.
• Sec. 25.27.228 Court Costs.
  The court may order an obligor to pay all court costs involved in a proceeding resulting in a court order described in AS 25.27.225...
• Sec. 25.27.230 Assertion, Recording, and Effect of Lien.
  (a) The agency shall assert a lien upon the real or personal property of the obligor in the amount of the obligor's liability if...
• Sec. 25.27.240 Service of Lien.
  (a) The agency of this state or another state, or a party or other entity seeking to enforce a child support obligation, may, at...
• Sec. 25.27.244 Adverse Action Against Delinquent Obligor's Occupational License.
  (a) The agency shall compile and maintain a list of obligors who are not in substantial compliance with a support order or payment schedule...
• Sec. 25.27.246 Adverse Action Against Delinquent Obligor's Driver's License.
  (a) The agency shall compile and maintain a list of obligors who have a driver's license, and either (1) are not in substantial compliance...
• Sec. 25.27.250 Order to Withhold and Deliver.
  (a) Without prior notice to the obligor, the agency may issue to any person, including an entity, political subdivision, or state agency, an order...
• Sec. 25.27.253 Earnings Subject to an Order or Lien.
  (a) A person, political subdivision, or department of the state shall withhold the earnings of the obligor subject to an order or lien at...
• Sec. 25.27.255 Disposition of Payments Under Income Withholding Orders.
  (a) The agency shall pay to the obligee all money recovered by the agency from the obligor under an income withholding order except for...
• Sec. 25.27.260 Civil Liability Upon Failure to Comply With an Order or Lien.
  (a) If a person, political subdivision, or department of the state (1) fails to make an answer to an order to withhold and deliver...
• Sec. 25.27.265 Method of Service; Notification of Change of Address.
  (a) Except as otherwise provided under this chapter, when a notice, paper, or other document is required by this chapter to be given or...
• Sec. 25.27.270 Judicial Relief From Administrative Execution.
  Any person against whose property a lien has been recorded under AS 25.27.230 or an order to withhold and deliver served in accordance with...
• Sec. 25.27.273 Reporting of Payment Information Concerning Delinquent Obligors.
  (a) The agency may provide to credit bureaus or lending institutions of any kind information about delinquent support owed by obligors. The information provided...
• Sec. 25.27.275 Nondisclosure of Information in Exceptional Circumstances.
  Upon a finding, which may be made ex parte, that the health, safety, or liberty of a party or child would be unreasonably put...
• Sec. 25.27.278 Payments Not Disbursed.
  Support payments collected and held by the agency for seven years without disbursal shall be returned to the obligor.
• Sec. 25.27.279 Voiding of Fraudulent Transfers Made to Avoid Payment of Child Support.
  In addition to the rights provided in AS 09.25.060 , if a transfer of personal or real property is made by an obligor without...
• Sec. 25.27.280 Severability: Alternative When Method of Notification Held Invalid.
  If any provision of this chapter or the application of it to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the invalidity shall not affect...
• Sec. 25.27.300 Requests Pertaining to Remarriage.
  The agency shall, at the request of a person who is an obligor under a support order enforced by the agency that includes support...
• Sec. 25.27.320 Interest on Agency Return of Certain Overpayments.
  (a) If the agency disburses money to an obligor because the agency made an error and mistakenly required the obligor to overpay under a...
• Sec. 25.27.900 Definitions.
  In this chapter,(1) "agency" means the child support services agency;(2) "arrearage" means a debt that is past due and equal to at least one...

Last modified: November 15, 2016