California Family Code ARTICLE 2 - General Provisions

• Section 5230.
  (a) When the court orders a party to pay an amount for support or orders a modification of the amount of support to be paid, the...
• Section 5230.1.
  (a) An earnings assignment or income withholding order for support issued by a court or administrative agency of another state is binding upon an employer of...
• Section 5230.5.
  Any obligee alleging arrearages in child support shall specify the amount thereof under penalty of perjury.(Added by Stats. 1994, Ch. 1140, Sec. 2. Effective January...
• Section 5231.
  Unless stayed pursuant to Article 4 (commencing with Section 5260), an assignment order is effective and binding upon any existing or future employer of the...
• Section 5232.
  Service on an employer of an assignment order may be made by first-class mail in the manner prescribed in Section 1013 of the Code of...
• Section 5233.
  Unless the order states a later date, beginning as soon as possible after service of the order on the employer but not later than 10...
• Section 5234.
  Within 10 days of service of an assignment order or an order/notice to withhold income for child support on an employer, the employer shall deliver...
• Section 5235.
  (a) The employer shall continue to withhold and forward support as required by the assignment order until served with notice terminating the assignment order. If an...
• Section 5236.
  The state agency or the local agency, designated to enforce support obligations as required by federal law, shall allow employers to simplify the process of...
• Section 5237.
  (a) Except as provided in subdivisions (b) and (c), the obligee shall notify the employer of the obligor, by first-class mail, postage prepaid, of any change...
• Section 5238.
  (a) Where an assignment order or assignment orders include both current support and payments towards the liquidation of arrearages, priority shall be given first to the...
• Section 5239.
  Arrearages of support payments shall be computed on the basis of the payments owed and unpaid on the date that the obligor has been given...
• Section 5240.
  (a) Upon the filing and service of a motion and a notice of motion by the obligor, the court shall terminate the service of an assignment...
• Section 5241.
  (a) An employer who willfully fails to withhold and forward support pursuant to a currently valid assignment order entered and served upon the employer pursuant to...
• Section 5242.
  Service of the assignment order creates a lien on the earnings of the employee and the property of the employer to the same extent as...
• Section 5243.
  An assignment order for support has priority as against any attachment, execution, or other assignment as specified in Section 706.031 of the Code of Civil...
• Section 5244.
  A reference to the local child support agency in this chapter applies only when the local child support agency is otherwise ordered or required to...
• Section 5245.
  Nothing in this chapter limits the authority of the local child support agency to use any other civil and criminal remedies to enforce support obligations,...
• Section 5246.
  (a) This section applies only to Title IV-D cases where support enforcement services are being provided by the local child support agency pursuant to Section 17400.(b) In...
• Section 5247.
  Neither the local child support agency nor an employer shall be subject to any civil liability for any amount withheld and paid to the obligee,...

Last modified: October 22, 2018