Revised Code of Washington - RCW Title 26 Domestic Relations - Chapter 26.23 State Support Registry

26.23.010 Intent
The legislature recognizes the financial impact on custodial parents and children when child support is not received on time, or in the correct amount. The ...

26.23.020 Definitions
(1) The definitions contained in RCW 74.20A.020 shall be incorporated into and made a part of this chapter. (2) "Support order" means a superior court ...

26.23.030 Registry -- Creation -- Duties -- Interest on unpaid child support -- Record retention
(1) There is created a Washington state support registry within the division of child support as the agency designated in Washington state to administer the ...

26.23.033 State case registry -- Submission of support orders
(1) The division of child support, Washington state support registry shall operate a state case registry containing records of all orders establishing or modifying a ...

26.23.035 Distribution of support received -- Rules
(1) The department of social and health services shall adopt rules for the distribution of support money collected by the division of child support. These ...

26.23.040 Employment reporting requirements -- Exceptions -- Penalties -- Retention of records
(1) All employers doing business in the state of Washington shall report to the Washington state support registry: (a) The hiring of any person who ...

26.23.045 Support enforcement services
(1) The division of child support, Washington state support registry, shall provide support enforcement services under the following circumstances: (a) Whenever public assistance under RCW ...

26.23.050 Support orders -- Provisions -- Enforcement -- Confidential information form -- Rules
(1) If the division of child support is providing support enforcement services under RCW 26.23.045, or if a party is applying for support enforcement services ...

26.23.055 Support proceedings, orders, and registry -- Required information -- Duty to update -- Service
(1) Each party to a paternity or child support proceeding must provide the court and the Washington state child support registry with the confidential information ...

26.23.060 Notice of payroll deduction -- Answer -- Processing fee
(1) The division of child support may issue a notice of payroll deduction: (a) As authorized by a support order that contains a notice clearly ...

26.23.070 Payments to registry -- Methods -- Immunity from civil liability
(1) The employer or the employment security department may combine amounts withheld from the earnings of more than one responsible parent in a single payment ...

26.23.075 Payments -- Dishonored checks -- Fees -- Rules
For any payment made by a check as defined in RCW 62A.3-104, if the instrument is dishonored under RCW 62A.3-515, the costs and fees authorized ...

26.23.080 Certain acts by employers prohibited -- Penalties
No employer shall discipline or discharge an employee or refuse to hire a person by reason of an action authorized in this chapter. If an ...

26.23.090 Employer liability for failure or refusal to respond or remit earnings
(1) The employer shall be liable to the Washington state support registry, or to the agency or firm providing child support enforcement for another state, ...

26.23.100 Motion to quash, modify, or terminate payroll deduction -- Grounds for relief
(1) The responsible parent subject to a payroll deduction pursuant to this chapter, may file a motion in superior court to quash, modify, or terminate ...

26.23.110 Procedures when amount of support obligation needs to be determined -- Notice -- Adjudicative proceeding -- Rules
(1) The department may serve a notice of support owed on a responsible parent when a support order: (a) Does not state the current and ...

26.23.120 Information and records -- Confidentiality -- Disclosure -- Adjudicative proceeding -- Rules -- Penalties
(1) Any information or records concerning individuals who owe a support obligation or for whom support enforcement services are being provided which are obtained or ...

26.23.130 Notice to department of child support or maintenance orders
The department shall be given twenty calendar days prior notice of the entry of any final order and five days prior notice of the entry ...

26.23.140 Collection and disclosure of social security numbers -- Finding -- Waiver requested to prevent fraud
The federal personal responsibility and work opportunity reconciliation act of 1996, P.L. 104-193, requires states to collect social security numbers as part of the application ...

26.23.150 Recording of social security numbers -- Compliance with federal requirement -- Restricted disclosure
In order to assist in child support enforcement as required by federal law, all applicants for an original, replacement, or renewal of a professional license, ...

26.23.900 Effective date -- 1987 c 435
Sections 1 through 3 and 5 through 36 of this act shall take effect January 1, 1988.[1987 c 435 § 37.] ...