Ohio Revised Code Chapter 3121 - Collection And Disbursement Of Child Support

• Section 3121.01 - Collection And Disbursement Of Child Support Definitions.
  As used in this chapter: (A) "Court child support order," "court support order," and "personal earnings" have the same meanings as in section 3119.01...
• Section 3121.02 - Ensuring That Withholding Or Deduction From Income Or Assets Of Obligor Is Available.
  In any action in which a support order is issued or modified, one of the following shall apply, as appropriate, to ensure that withholding...
• Section 3121.03 - Withholding Or Deduction From Income Or Assets Of Obligor.
  If a court or child support enforcement agency that issued or modified a support order, or the agency administering the support order, is required...
• Section 3121.031 - Determining Employment Status Of Obligor, Obligor's Social Security Number, Name And Business Address Of Obligor's Employer, And Other Information.
  In any action in which a court support order is issued or modified, the court issuing or modifying the order shall conduct a hearing,...
• Section 3121.032 - Including Withholding Or Deduction Requirements Or Other Appropriate Requirements In Notices And Orders.
  A court or child support enforcement agency that issues or modifies a support order shall determine the withholding or deduction requirements or other appropriate...
• Section 3121.033 - Aggregate Amount Withheld Or Deducted To Satisfy Amount Ordered For Support.
  If a court or child support enforcement agency is required to issue one or more notices or orders described in section 3121.03 of the...
• Section 3121.034 - Priority Of Withholding Or Deduction Requirement For Support.
  (A) Except for deductions from lump sum payments made in accordance with section 3121.0311 of the Revised Code, a withholding or deduction requirement contained...
• Section 3121.035 - Notices And Orders Sent To Persons Required To Comply.
  Within fifteen days after an obligor under a support order is located following issuance or modification of the support order, the court or child...
• Section 3121.036 - Attaching Additional Notice To Obligor To Provide Certain Information.
  (A) A court or agency that sends a withholding or deduction notice under section 3121.03 of the Revised Code to an obligor shall attach...
• Section 3121.037 - Contents Of Withholding Or Deduction Notice.
  (A) A withholding notice sent under section 3121.03 of the Revised Code shall contain all of the following: (1) Notice of the amount to...
• Section 3121.038 - Limit On Information Included In Withholding Or Deduction Notice.
  No withholding or deduction notice or other order described in section 3121.03 of the Revised Code shall contain any information other than the information...
• Section 3121.039 - Prior Orders And Notices Considered To Be Notices And Orders Under 2001 Provisions.
  (A) For purposes of Chapters 3119., 3121., 3123., and 3125. of the Revised Code, the following shall be considered a withholding or deduction notice...
• Section 3121.0310 - Adoption Of Standard Forms For Notices.
  The department of job and family services shall adopt standard forms for support withholding and deduction notices described in section 3121.03 of the Revised...
• Section 3121.0311 - Notice To Obligor's Workers' Compensation Attorney Regarding Lump Sum Payment.
  (A) If a lump sum payment referred to in division (A) (11) of section 3121.037 of the Revised Code consists of workers' compensation benefits...
• Section 3121.04 - Cash Bond Given By Obligor.
  When a person who fails to comply with a withholding notice described in section 3121.03 of the Revised Code and issued to enforce a...
• Section 3121.05 - Obligor With No Income Or Assets To Give Notice Of Change - Default Hearing.
  When a court determines at a hearing conducted under section 3123.05 of the Revised Code, or a child support enforcement agency determines at a...
• Section 3121.06 - Obligor With No Income Or Assets To Give Notice Of Change - Modification Hearing.
  When a court determines, at a hearing conducted under section 3121.031 of the Revised Code with respect to a court support order being modified,...
• Section 3121.07 - Unemployment Compensation Benefits Withholding Or Deductions.
  (A) If a child support enforcement agency discovers pursuant to an investigation conducted under section 3123.02 of the Revised Code that an obligor under...
• Section 3121.08 - Prisoner Earnings.
  (A) As used in this section, "prison," "prison term," and "jail" have the same meanings as in section 2929.01 of the Revised Code. (B)...
• Section 3121.09 - Withholding Support From Payments Due From The State To Certain Persons.
  An obligee owed support under a support order, or a court or child support enforcement agency on behalf of the obligee, may maintain a...
• Section 3121.091 - Service Of Notice Of Withholding Support From Payments Due From The State To Certain Persons.
  A withholding notice or other order issued pursuant to Chapter 3115., 3119., 3121., or 3123. of the Revised Code with respect to an obligor...
• Section 3121.11 - Notice Of Lump Sum Payments.
  When a child support enforcement agency receives notice that a lump sum payment of one hundred fifty dollars or more is to be paid...
• Section 3121.12 - Procedure Concerning Lump Sum Payment.
  (A) On receipt of a notice that a lump sum payment of one hundred fifty dollars or more is to be paid to the...
• Section 3121.14 - Notice Of Change In Source Of Income Or Accounts.
  When a court has issued a court support order or a child support enforcement agency has issued an administrative child support order, when the...
• Section 3121.15 - Issuing Notice Requiring Withholding When Obligor Begins Employment.
  When a court or child support enforcement agency has issued one or more notices containing one or more of the requirements described in section...
• Section 3121.16 - Notice Is Final And Enforceable.
  If a child support enforcement agency sends a notice imposing a withholding or deduction requirement or a court or agency sends an order imposing...
• Section 3121.18 - Fees.
  A payor ordered to withhold a specified amount from the income of an employee under a withholding notice described in section 3121.03 of the...
• Section 3121.19 - Time For Forwarding Amount Withheld Or Deducted.
  (A) The entire amount withheld or deducted pursuant to a withholding or deduction notice described in section 3121.03 of the Revised Code shall be...
• Section 3121.20 - Combining Amounts To Be Forwarded.
  (A) A payor or financial institution required to withhold or deduct a specified amount from the income or savings of more than one obligor...
• Section 3121.21 - Payor Or Financial Institution - Immunity.
  A payor or financial institution shall not be subject to criminal or civil liability for compliance, in accordance with sections 3121.18 to 3121.20 of...
• Section 3121.23 - Service.
  Except when a provision specifically authorizes or requires service other than as described in this section, service of any notice on any party, a...
• Section 3121.24 - Parties Must Provide Information To Agency.
  (A) Each party to a support order shall notify the child support enforcement agency administering the support order of the party's current mailing address,...
• Section 3121.25 - Notice Of Request For Modification Or Filing Action For Enforcement.
  If a party to a court support order requests a modification of the order or an obligee under a court support order or a...
• Section 3121.27 - Including General Statement In Support Orders.
  (A) A court or child support enforcement agency shall include in any order for support it issues a general provision that states the following:...
• Section 3121.28 - Including Statements Concerning Monthly Payment In Support Orders.
  In any action or proceeding in which a support order is issued or modified, the court or child support enforcement agency that issues or...
• Section 3121.29 - Including Warning Notice In Support Orders.
  Each support order, or modification of a support order, shall contain a notice that states the following in boldface type and in all capital...
• Section 3121.30 - Including Obligor's Date Of Birth And Social Security Number In Support Orders.
  A support order, or modification of a support order, shall contain the date of birth and social security number of the obligor. Effective Date:
• Section 3121.33 - Notices And Orders Final And Enforceable By Court.
  The withholding or deduction notices and other orders issued under sections 3121.03, 3121.04 to 3121.06, and 3121.12 of the Revised Code, and the notices...
• Section 3121.34 - Complying With Withholding Or Deduction Notice Without Amending Order.
  A person required to comply with withholding or deduction notices described in section 3121.03 of the Revised Code shall determine the manner of withholding...
• Section 3121.35 - Court To Have All Powers Necessary To Enforce Order.
  A court that has authority to issue a court support order shall have all powers necessary to enforce the order and any administrative child...
• Section 3121.36 - Authority To Collect Arrearage After Termination Of Order.
  The termination of a court support order or administrative child support order does not abate the power of any court or child support enforcement...
• Section 3121.37 - Contempt For Failure To Comply With Administrative Order.
  If an obligor or any other person fails to comply with an administrative child support order, the agency that issued the order may request...
• Section 3121.371 - Contempt For Failure To Comply With Withholding Order.
  If a child support enforcement agency sends a notice imposing a withholding or deduction requirement or any other appropriate requirement to a person described...
• Section 3121.372 - Contempt For Failure To Send Notice.
  The failure of a person to send any notice required by section 3121.03, 3121.036, 3121.05, 3121.06, or 3121.12 of the Revised Code shall be...
• Section 3121.373 - Hearing - Notice.
  (A) As used in this section, "willfully" means voluntarily and intentionally with a specific intent to take an action or fail to take an...
• Section 3121.38 - Liability Of Payor Or Financial Institution.
  A payor that fails to withhold an amount from an obligor's income for support in accordance with a withholding requirement included in a withholding...
• Section 3121.381 - Fining Noncomplying Payor Or Financial Institution.
  A court may fine a payor not more than two hundred dollars for failure to withhold income, as required under a withholding notice issued...
• Section 3121.382 - Issuing Order Upon Finding Of Wilful Failure To Comply With Withholding Notice.
  (A) As used in this section, "willfully" means voluntarily and intentionally with a specific intent to take an action or fail to take an...
• Section 3121.39 - Employer Not To Take Adverse Action Against Employee Subject To Child Support Withholding.
  No payor that is an employer may use a requirement to withhold personal earnings contained in a withholding notice issued under section 3121.03 of...
• Section 3121.43 - Duties Of Office Of Child Support.
  Except as provided in sections 3125.27 to 3125.30 of the Revised Code, the office of child support in the department of job and family...
• Section 3121.44 - Support Payments To Be Made To Office Of Child Support.
  On issuing or modifying a support order, issuing any withholding or deduction notice described in section 3121.03 of the Revised Code, or issuing an...
• Section 3121.441 - Direct Spousal Support Payments.
  (A) Notwithstanding the provisions of this chapter, Chapters 3119., 3123., and 3125., and sections 3770.071 and 5107.20 of the Revised Code providing for the...
• Section 3121.45 - Payments Deemed To Be Gifts.
  Any payment of money by the person responsible for the support payments under a support order to the person entitled to receive the support...
• Section 3121.46 - Order For Payments To Third Person.
  (A) When a support order is issued or modified, a withholding or deduction notice described in section 3121.03 of the Revised Code is issued,...
• Section 3121.47 - Application To Child Support Enforcement Agency For Administration Of Order.
  Any person entitled to receive support payments either personally or on behalf of another person, by reason of any support order that does not...
• Section 3121.48 - Separate Account For Support Payments Received As Trustee.
  The office of child support shall administer a fund for the deposit of support payments it receives as trustee for remittance to the persons...
• Section 3121.49 - Retention Of Interest.
  The office of child support shall retain, and use solely for support enforcement activities, all interest earned on moneys in any support payment account...
• Section 3121.50 - Distributing Amount Forwarded To Obligee.
  On receipt of any amount forwarded from a payor or financial institution, the office of child support shall distribute the amount to the obligee...
• Section 3121.51 - Administering Orders On Monthly Basis.
  A child support enforcement agency shall administer all support orders on a monthly basis. Effective Date: 03-22-2001
• Section 3121.52 - Calculating Monthly Amount Due Where Payments Made On Other Basis.
  A court or child support enforcement agency that issues or modifies a support order with support payments to be made other than on a...
• Section 3121.53 - Payments Made On Other Basis Not To Affect The Frequency Or The Amount Of The Support Payments.
  If the payments under a support order are to be made other than on a monthly basis, the required monthly administration of the order...
• Section 3121.54 - Payment Of Support Commencing On Day Other Than First Day Of Month.
  With respect to support orders that require payment of support to commence on a day other than the first day of a month, the...
• Section 3121.56 - Collecting Administrative Charge.
  The office of child support shall collect the administrative charge imposed on the obligor under the support order pursuant to section 3119.27 of the...
• Section 3121.57 - Applying Administrative Charge.
  The office of child support is not required to apply an administrative charge included with a payment for current support payment toward any arrearages...
• Section 3121.58 - Separate Arrearage Account For Unpaid Charges.
  If an obligor fails to make the payment required by division (B) of section 3119.28 of the Revised Code, the office of child support...
• Section 3121.59 - Disposing Of Fines Paid For Failure To Give Notice Of Changes.
  A fine imposed pursuant to division (B) of section 3121.99 of the Revised Code shall be paid to the office of child support in...
• Section 3121.60 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 03-21-2005
• Section 3121.63 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 03-21-2005
• Section 3121.64 - Quarterly Distributions Of Administrative Charges To County Agencies.
  On receipt of administrative charges under section 3121.56 of the Revised Code, the office of child support shall determine the charge amounts collected from...
• Section 3121.65 - Restriction On Use Of Administrative Charges.
  No administrative charge amounts collected shall be used by the office of child support or a child support enforcement agency for any purpose other...
• Section 3121.67 - Contracting With Public Or Private Entities To Perform Duties.
  The office of child support may enter into contracts with public entities or private vendors for the collection of amounts due under support orders...
• Section 3121.69 - Using Facsimile Signature.
  In order to comply with its collection and disbursement responsibilities, the office of child support may require the director of each child support enforcement...
• Section 3121.71 - Administrative Rules.
  The director of job and family services, pursuant to Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, shall adopt rules that do all of the following:...
• Section 3121.74 - Account Information Access Agreements - Financial Data Matching Program.
  The office of child support in the department of job and family services shall enter into account information access agreements with financial institutions doing...
• Section 3121.75 - Deducting Fee For Each Withdrawal.
  A financial institution that responds to a request or provides information to the office of child support pursuant to an account information access agreement...
• Section 3121.76 - Confidentiality Requirements.
  Information obtained from a financial institution pursuant to an account information access agreement is not a public record for the purposes of section 149.43...
• Section 3121.77 - Financial Institutions Or Personnel - Immunity.
  Financial institutions or their officers, directors, and employees shall not be subject to criminal or civil liability for disclosing or releasing information concerning an...
• Section 3121.78 - Administrative Rules Concerning Account Information Agreements.
  The director of job and family services shall adopt rules pursuant to Chapter 119. of the Revised Code that govern the provisions of an...
• Section 3121.81 - Case Registry Of Support Orders.
  The office of child support in the department of job and family services shall establish and maintain a case registry of all support orders...
• Section 3121.82 - Information Included In Case Registry.
  The case registry shall include all of the following information: (A) The name, social security number, driver's license number, other identification number, residence telephone...
• Section 3121.83 - Maintenance Of Case Registry.
  The case registry shall be maintained as part of the automated system created pursuant to section 3125.07 of the Revised Code and shall be...
• Section 3121.84 - Comparing Information.
  (A) The office of child support shall make comparisons of the information in the case registry with the information maintained by the department of...
• Section 3121.85 - Duties Of Agencies And Office Of Child Support To Update And Maintain Information.
  Each child support enforcement agency shall enter information into the case registry and maintain and update that information consistent with Title IV-D of the...
• Section 3121.86 - Administrative Rules For Case Registry.
  The director of job and family services shall adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code that do both of the...
• Section 3121.89 - Employee And Employer Defined.
  As used in sections 3121.891 to 3121.8911 of the Revised Code: (A) "Contractor" means an individual who provides services to an employer as an...
• Section 3121.891 - Duty To Make A New Hire Report.
  (A) Except as provided in division (B) or (C) of this section, every employer shall make a new hire report to the department of...
• Section 3121.892 - Information Included In New Hire Report.
  (A) An employer shall include all of the following in each new hire report: (1) For each employee, the employee's name, address, date of...
• Section 3121.893 - Methods For Making New Hire Report.
  An employer shall make a new hire report for each newly hired employee or contractor in a manner prescribed by the department of job...
• Section 3121.894 - New Hires Directory.
  The department of job and family services shall, within five days of receipt from an employer, enter the information described in divisions (A)(1) and...
• Section 3121.895 - Comparing Social Security Numbers In New Hire Report With Case Registry.
  The department of job and family services shall make comparisons of the social security numbers obtained pursuant to division (A)(1) of section 3121.892 of...
• Section 3121.896 - Director Of Jobs And Family Services To Determine Use Of Information - Increase Of Payment To Contractor.
  The director of job and family services shall by rule establish the manner in which information concerning any person identified in division (A)(2) of...
• Section 3121.897 - New Hire Information Furnished To National Directory Of New Hires.
  Within three business days after information on persons identified in division (A)(1) of section 3121.892 of the Revised Code is entered into the new...
• Section 3121.898 - Using New Hire Reports.
  The department of job and family services shall use the new hire reports it receives for any of the following purposes set forth in...
• Section 3121.899 - Disclosure Of New Hire Reports.
  (A) The new hire reports filed with the department of job and family services pursuant to section 3121.891 of the Revised Code shall not...
• Section 3121.8910 - Fee For Failing To Make New Hire Report.
  An employer that fails to make a new hire report shall be liable to the department of job and family services for a civil...
• Section 3121.8911 - Administrative Rules For New Hire Report.
  The director of job and family services shall adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code to implement sections 3121.89 to...
• Section 3121.91 - Interstate Cooperation.
  The department of job and family services may request the assistance of other states in enforcing support orders issued by the courts and child...
• Section 3121.92 - International Cooperation.
  The department of job and family services may enter into an agreement with a foreign country for the establishment of and enforcement of support...
• Section 3121.99 - Penalty.
  (A) Whoever violates section 3121.76 of the Revised Code shall be fined no more than five hundred dollars, or imprisoned not more than six...

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