Arkansas Code Title 9, Subtitle 2, Chapter 14, Subchapter 2 - Enforcement Generally

• § 9-14-201 - Definitions.
  As used in this Code: (1) (A) "Accrued arrearage" means a delinquency that is past due and unpaid and owed under a court order...
• § 9-14-202 - Exclusivity of Remedies.
  The remedies provided in this subchapter shall not be exclusive of other remedies presently existing.
• § 9-14-203 - [Superseded.]
• § 9-14-204 - Hearings for Enforcement of Support Orders.
  (a) (1) Hearings in all child support cases and paternity cases brought pursuant to Title IV-D of the Social Security Act shall be heard...
• § 9-14-205 - Information Required in Support Cases.
  (a) In all cases in which the support and care of any child or children are involved, it shall be the duty of the...
• § 9-14-206 - Office of Child Support Enforcement -- Establishment -- Plan -- Program -- Child Support Officers.
  (a) There is established an organizational unit to be called the Office of Child Support Enforcement of the Revenue Division of the Department of...
• § 9-14-207 - Office of Child Support Enforcement -- Administrator -- Child Support Officers.
  (a) The Administrator of the Office of Child Support Enforcement of the Revenue Division of the Department of Finance and Administration is authorized to...
• § 9-14-208 - Office of Child Support Enforcement -- Powers to Obtain Information on Noncustodial Parent -- Penalty -- Immunity -- Definitions.
  (a) As used in this section: (1) "Business" means any corporation, partnership, cable television company, association, individual, utility company that is organized privately, as...
• § 9-14-209 - Office of Child Support Enforcement -- Duty to Provide Information to Consumer Reporting Agency -- Definition.
  (a) (1) As used in this section, "consumer reporting agency" means any person who, for monetary fees, dues, or on a cooperative, nonprofit basis...
• § 9-14-210 - Office of Child Support Enforcement -- Employment of Attorneys -- Real Party in Interest -- Scope of Representation.
  (a) The Department of Human Services or the Office of Child Support Enforcement of the Revenue Division of the Department of Finance and Administration,...
• § 9-14-211 - Assigned Support Rights Generally.
  (a) Support rights assigned to the Department of Human Services under § 9-14-109 shall constitute an obligation owed to the State of Arkansas by...
• § 9-14-212 - Assigned Support Rights -- Non-Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program Application Fee.
  (a) The Office of Child Support Enforcement of the Revenue Division of the Department of Finance and Administration may charge a nonrefundable application fee...
• § 9-14-213 - Assigned Support Rights -- Notice -- Termination of Assignment.
  (a) (1) When a court has ordered support payments to a person who has made an assignment of support rights under § 9-14-109 or...
• § 9-14-214 - Assigned Support Rights -- Award of Fee in Action -- Definition.
  (a) In any action brought on behalf of a person to whom a support obligation is owed under an assignment pursuant to § 9-14-109...
• § 9-14-215 - Fees in Actions Under Uniform Interstate Family Support Act.
  (a) (1) There shall be no filing fee, service fee, or other costs collected from the Office of Child Support Enforcement of the Revenue...
• § 9-14-216 - Income Withholding -- Establishment and Maintenance of System.
  (a) (1) The Office of Child Support Enforcement of the Revenue Division of the Department of Finance and Administration shall establish and maintain a...
• § 9-14-217 - Income Withholding -- Supersession of § 9-14-102.
  The income withholding provisions of this subchapter shall supersede the provisions of § 9-14-102 when applicable.
• § 9-14-218 - Income Withholding -- Time of Taking Effect Generally -- Forms.
  (a) (1) In all decrees or orders that provide for the payment of money for the support and care of any children, the court...
• § 9-14-219 - Income Withholding -- Priority of Order.
  Orders of income withholding for support shall have priority over all other legal processes under state law against the money, income, or periodic earnings...
• § 9-14-220 - Income Withholding -- Persons Subject to Order -- Ground to Contest Order.
  (a) All persons under court order to pay support on August 1, 1985, who become delinquent in an amount equal to the total court-ordered...
• § 9-14-221 - Income Withholding -- When Orders Take Effect -- Notice -- Costs.
  (a) Orders of income withholding that were not effective immediately by order of the court, upon the consent of the noncustodial parent, or at...
• § 9-14-222 - Income Withholding -- Notice to Payor -- Costs.
  (a) A payor shall be notified of an order of income withholding by a notice as set forth in this section.(b) (1) The order...
• § 9-14-223 - Income Withholding -- Objection of Payor.
  Upon receipt of an objection from a payor under an order of income withholding, the court or its representative shall expeditiously determine whether the...
• § 9-14-224 - Income Withholding -- Duties of Payor.
  (a) A payor who has been notified of an order of income withholding shall be bound by the order until further notice by the...
• § 9-14-225 - Income Withholding -- Liability of Payor -- Distribution of Moneys.
  (a) A payor who has been notified of an order of income withholding shall be liable for any amount up to the accumulated amount...
• § 9-14-226 - Income Withholding -- Prohibition of Disciplinary Action Against Employee -- Penalty.
  (a) A payor who is an employer is prohibited from discharging, refusing to employ, or taking other disciplinary action against a noncustodial parent under...
• § 9-14-227 - Income Withholding -- Administrative Costs -- Applicability to Unemployment Compensation and Workers' Compensation.
  (a) A payor may withhold up to two dollars and fifty cents ($2.50) per pay period in addition to the court-ordered income withholding amount...
• § 9-14-228 - Income Withholding -- Procedures for Payor.
  (a) (1) A payor shall withhold the amount indicated in the notice from money, income, or periodic earnings due the noncustodial parent and remit...
• § 9-14-229 - Income Withholding -- Termination of Order -- Notice to Payor.
  (a) The circuit court may terminate an income withholding order upon proof that the court or its representative has been unable to deliver payments...
• § 9-14-230 - Decree As Lien on Real Property.
  (a) (1) (A) Any decree, judgment, or order that contains a provision for payment of money for the support and care of any child...
• § 9-14-231 - Overdue Support As Lien on Personal Property.
  (a) (1) (A) Support that has been ordered paid through the registry of the court or through the Arkansas child support clearinghouse and that...
• § 9-14-232 - Healthcare Coverage.
  (a) In all cases in which the support and care of any children are involved, the court may order either parent to secure and...
• § 9-14-233 - Arrearages -- Interest and Attorney's Fees -- Work Activities and Incarceration.
  (a) All child support that becomes due and remains unpaid shall accrue interest at the rate of ten percent (10%) per annum unless the...
• § 9-14-234 - Arrearages -- Finality of Judgment -- Definition.
  (a) As used in this section, "physical custodian" means a natural or adoptive parent, a guardian, or a person or agency who has custody...
• § 9-14-235 - Arrearages -- Payment After Duty to Support Ceases -- Definition.
  (a) If a child support arrearage or judgment exists at the time when any child entitled to support reaches the age of majority, is...
• § 9-14-236 - Arrearages -- Child Support Limited -- Limitations Period -- Definitions.
  (a) As used in this section: (1) "Accrued child support arrearages" means a delinquency owed under a court order or an order of an...
• § 9-14-237 - Expiration of Child Support Obligation.
  (a) (1) Unless a court order for child support specifically extends child support after these circumstances, an obligor's duty to pay child support for...
• § 9-14-238 - Collection of Support Obligations.
  (a) The Administrator of the Office of Child Support Enforcement of the Revenue Division of the Department of Finance and Administration is authorized to...
• § 9-14-239 - Suspension of License for Failure to Pay Child Support -- Definitions.
  (a) As used in this section: (1) "Department" means the Department of Finance and Administration or its duly authorized agents; (2) "License" means an...
• § 9-14-240 - Expiration of Income Withholding.
  (a) (1) Income withholding for child support shall terminate by operation of law when one (1) of the conditions set out in § 9-14-237(a)...
• § 9-14-241 - Referrals for Criminal Prosecution.
  (a) The Office of Child Support Enforcement of the Revenue Division of the Department of Finance and Administration shall refer to the prosecuting attorney...
• § 9-14-242 - Report of Nonsupport Payments.
  (a) (1) The Office of Child Support Enforcement of the Revenue Division of the Department of Finance and Administration shall provide individual reports to...

Last modified: November 15, 2016