Revised Code of Washington - RCW Title 74 Public Assistance - Chapter 74.20A Support Of Dependent Children -- Alternative Method -- 1971 Act

74.20A.010 Purpose -- Remedies additional
Common law and statutory procedures governing the remedies for enforcement of support for financially dependent minor children by responsible parents have not proven sufficiently effective ...
74.20A.020 Definitions
Unless a different meaning is plainly required by the context, the following words and phrases as hereinafter used in this chapter and chapter 74.20 RCW ...
74.20A.030 Department subrogated to rights for support -- Enforcement actions -- Certain parents exempt
(1) The department shall be subrogated to the right of any dependent child or children or person having the care, custody, and control of said ...
74.20A.035 Augmentation of paternity establishment services
The department of social and health services shall augment its present paternity establishment services through the hiring of additional assistant attorneys general, or contracting with ...
74.20A.040 Notice of support debt -- Service or mailing -- Contents -- Action on, when
(1) The secretary may issue a notice of a support debt accrued and/or accruing based upon RCW 74.20A.030, assignment of a support debt or a ...
74.20A.055 Notice and finding of financial responsibility of responsible parent -- Service -- Hearing -- Decisions -- Rules
(1) The secretary may, if there is no order that establishes the responsible parent's support obligation or specifically relieves the responsible parent of a support ...
74.20A.056 Notice and finding of financial responsibility pursuant to an affidavit of paternity -- Procedure for contesting -- Rules
(1) If an alleged father has signed an affidavit acknowledging paternity which has been filed with the state registrar of vital statistics before July 1, ...
74.20A.057 Jurisdiction over responsible parent
A support obligation arising under the statutes or common law of this state binds the responsible parent, present in this state, regardless of the presence ...
74.20A.059 Modification of administrative orders establishing child support -- Petition -- Grounds -- Procedure
(1) The department, the physical custodian, or the responsible parent may petition for a prospective modification of a final administrative order if: (a) The administrative ...
74.20A.060 Assertion of lien -- Effect
(1) The secretary may assert a lien upon the real or personal property of a responsible parent: (a) When a support payment is past due, ...
74.20A.070 Service of lien
(1) The secretary may at any time after filing of a support lien serve a copy of the lien upon any person, firm, corporation, association, ...
74.20A.080 Order to withhold and deliver -- Issuance and service -- Contents -- Effect -- Duties of person served -- Processing fee
(1) The secretary may issue to any person, firm, corporation, association, political subdivision, department of the state, or agency, subdivision, or instrumentality of the United ...
74.20A.090 Certain amount of earnings exempt from lien or order -- "Earnings" and "disposable earnings" defined
Whenever a support lien or order to withhold and deliver is served upon any person, firm, corporation, association, political subdivision, or department of the state ...
74.20A.095 Support enforcement services -- Action against earnings within state -- Notice
When providing support enforcement services, the office of support enforcement may take action, under this chapter and chapter 26.23 RCW, against a responsible parent's earnings ...
74.20A.100 Civil liability upon failure to comply with order or lien -- Collection
(1) Any person, firm, corporation, association, political subdivision, or department of the state shall be liable to the department, or to the agency or firm ...
74.20A.110 Release of excess to debtor
Whenever any person, firm, corporation, association, political subdivision or department of the state has in its possession earnings, deposits, accounts, or balances in excess of ...
74.20A.120 Banks, savings and loan associations, credit unions -- Service on main office or branch, effect -- Collection actions against community bank account, right to adjudicative proceeding
A lien, order to withhold and deliver, or any other notice or document authorized by this chapter or chapter 26.23 RCW may be served on ...
74.20A.130 Distraint, seizure and sale of property subject to liens under RCW 74.20A.060 -- Procedure
Whenever a support lien has been filed pursuant to RCW 74.20A.060, the secretary may collect the support debt stated in said lien by the distraint, ...
74.20A.140 Action for foreclosure of support lien -- Satisfaction
Whenever a support lien has been filed, an action in foreclosure of lien upon real or personal property may be brought in the superior court ...
74.20A.150 Satisfaction of lien after foreclosure proceedings instituted -- Redemption
Any person owning real property, or any interest in real property, against which a support lien has been filed and foreclosure instituted, shall have the ...
74.20A.160 Secretary may set debt payment schedule, release funds in certain hardship cases
With respect to any arrearages on a support debt assessed under this chapter, the secretary may at any time consistent with the income, earning capacity ...
74.20A.170 Secretary may release lien or order or return seized property -- Effect
The secretary may at any time release a support lien, or order to withhold and deliver, on all or part of the property of the ...
74.20A.180 Secretary may make demand, file and serve liens, when payments appear in jeopardy
If the secretary finds that the collection of any support debt, accrued under a support order, based upon subrogation or an authorization to enforce and ...
74.20A.188 Request for assistance on automated enforcement of interstate case -- Certification required
(1) Before the state may assist another state or jurisdiction with a high-volume automated administrative enforcement of an interstate case, the requesting state must certify ...
74.20A.200 Judicial relief after administrative remedies exhausted
Any person against whose property a support lien has been filed or an order to withhold and deliver has been served pursuant to this chapter ...
74.20A.220 Charging off child support debts as uncollectible -- Compromise -- Waiver of any bar to collection
Any support debt due the department from a responsible parent may be written off and cease to be accounted as an asset if the secretary ...
74.20A.230 Employee debtor rights protected -- Remedies
No employer shall discharge or discipline an employee or refuse to hire a person for reason that an assignment of earnings has been presented in ...
74.20A.240 Assignment of earnings to be honored -- Effect -- Processing fee
Any person, firm, corporation, association, political subdivision, department of the state, or agency, subdivision, or instrumentality of the United States employing a person owing a ...
74.20A.250 Secretary empowered to act as attorney, endorse drafts
Whenever the secretary has been authorized under RCW 74.20.040 to take action to establish, enforce, and collect support moneys, the custodial parent and the child ...
74.20A.260 Industrial insurance disability payments subject to collection by office of support enforcement
Disability payments made pursuant to Title 51 RCW shall be classified as earnings and shall be subject to collection action by the office for support ...
74.20A.270 Department claim for support moneys -- Notice -- Answer -- Adjudicative proceeding -- Judicial review -- Moneys not subject to claim
(1) The secretary may issue a notice of retained support or notice to recover a support payment to any person: (a) Who is in possession ...
74.20A.275 Support payments in possession of third parties -- Collection
(1) If a person or entity not entitled to child support payments wrongfully or negligently retains child support payments owed to another or to the ...
74.20A.280 Department to respect privacy of recipients
While discharging its responsibilities to enforce the support obligations of responsible parents, the department shall respect the right of privacy of recipients of public assistance ...
74.20A.290 Applicant for adjudicative proceeding must advise department of current address
Whenever any person files an application for an adjudicative proceeding under RCW 74.20A.055 or 74.20A.270, after the department has notified the person of the requirements ...
74.20A.300 Health insurance coverage required
(1) Whenever a support order is entered or modified under this chapter, the department shall require the responsible parent to maintain or provide health insurance ...
74.20A.310 Federal and state cooperation -- Rules -- Construction
In furtherance of the policy of the state to cooperate with the federal government in the administration of the child support enforcement program, the department ...
74.20A.320 License suspension program -- Noncompliance with a child support order -- Certification of noncompliance -- Notice, adjudicative proceeding -- Stay of certification -- Rules
(1) The department may serve upon a responsible parent a notice informing the responsible parent of the department's intent to submit the parent's name to ...
74.20A.330 License suspension -- Agreements between department and licensing entities -- Identification of responsible parents
(1) The department and all of the various licensing entities subject to RCW 74.20A.320 shall enter into such agreements as are necessary to carry out ...
74.20A.350 Noncompliance -- Notice -- Fines -- License suspension -- Hearings -- Rules
(1) The division of child support may issue a notice of noncompliance to any person, firm, entity, or agency of state or federal government that ...
74.20A.360 Records access -- Confidentiality -- Nonliability -- Penalty for noncompliance
(1) Notwithstanding any other provision of Washington law, the division of child support, the Washington state support registry, or the agency or firm providing child ...
74.20A.370 Financial institution data matches
(1) Each calendar quarter financial institutions doing business in the state of Washington shall report to the department the name, record address, social security number ...
74.20A.900 Severability -- Alternative when method of notification held invalid
If any provision of this chapter or the application thereof to any person or circumstance is held invalid, such invalidity shall not affect other provisions ...
74.20A.910 Savings clause
The repeal of RCW 74.20A.050 and the amendment of RCW 74.20A.030 and 74.20A.250 by this 1979 act is not intended to affect any existing or ...

Last modified: April 7, 2009