Hawaii Revised Statutes 576d. Child Support Enforcement
- 576d-1 Definitions.
For the purpose of this chapter: "Absent parent" means a parent who is absent from the family, whether or not the parent is a...
- 576d-2 Designation of Child Support Enforcement Agency; Duties.
There is created the child support enforcement agency for the State as required under Title IV-D. The agency shall be within the department of...
- 576d-3 Obtaining or Enforcing Child Support
. (a) The agency shall undertake any legal or administrative action to secure support for a child by enforcing an existing court order or obtaining...
- 576d-4 Establishment of Paternity.
When necessary to obtain child support for a child under section 576D-3, the agency shall take any legal or administrative action to establish the...
- 576d-5 Fee for Obtaining or Enforcing Nonpublic Assistance Order.
(a) The agency shall require the payment of a reasonable fee on the application of a person under section 576D-3(b)(3) who is not receiving...
- 576d-6 Other Duties of Agency.
(a) The agency shall: (1) Establish a state parent locator service for the purpose of locating absent and custodial parents; (2) Cooperate with other...
- 576d-7 Guidelines in Establishing Amount of Child Support.
(a) The family court, in consultation with the agency, shall establish guidelines to establish the amount of child support when an order for support...
- 576d-8 Transmittal of Money Collected to Department of Human Services.
The moneys collected by the agency on behalf of the department of human services shall be transmitted to the department of human services as required...
- 576d-9 Incentive Payments to State and Political Subdivision.
If one or more political subdivisions of the State participate in the costs of carrying out the child support enforcement activities during any particular...
- 576d-10 Collection and Disbursal of Child Support; Direct Payment Exception.
(a) The agency shall collect and disburse child support payments when an order requires the collection and disbursal. In the event of any default...
- 576d-10.5 Liens
. (a) Whenever any obligor through judicial or administrative process in this State or any other state has been ordered to pay an allowance for...
- 576d-11 Staff.
The attorney general shall appoint, without regard to chapter 76: (1) An administrator; (2) An assistant administrator who shall serve as controller and whose...
- 576d-12 Protection of Records; Divulging Confidential Information Prohibited; Penalties.
(a) The agency and its agents shall keep records that may be necessary or proper in accordance with this chapter. All applications and records concerning...
- 576d-13 Suspension or Denial of Licenses.
(a) Upon a determination that an obligor is not in compliance with an order of support as defined in section 576D-1 or that an...
- 576d-14 Implementation of Income Withholding.
(a) For cases being enforced under the Title IV-D state plan or for those parents applying to the agency for services, the income of...
- 576d-15 Financial Institution Data Match System.
(a) The agency may enter into agreements with financial institutions doing business in the State to develop and operate a data match system for...
- 576d-16 Duty of Employers to Report New Hires to the Agency; Civil Penalties for Failure to Comply With Reporting; National New Hire Directory.
(a) Beginning October 1, 1998, each employer in the State shall report to the agency within twenty days of hire, the name, address, social...
- 576d-17 Violations; Penalties.
(a) Unless otherwise provided, any person or entity in the State including for-profit, nonprofit, and labor organizations, and any agency, board, commission, authority, court,...
- 576d-18 Investigators; Access to Information.
administering a program under Title IV-D shall have access, including automated inquiry access, to the records of all entities in the State for information on...
Last modified: October 27, 2016