When someone owes child support and gets an income withholding order from another state sent straight to their employer, that person can fight the order in a Missouri court. To do so, the person has to let certain people know about the fight — including the agency helping the person who is owed support, the employer who got the order, and the person who is supposed to receive the payments.
454.1626. by . — (a) An obligor may contest the or of an issued in another state and received directly by an employer in this state by in a of this state and a contest to that as provided in Article 6, sections 454.1632 to 454.1677, or otherwise contesting the order in the same manner as if the order had been issued by a tribunal of this state.
(b) The obligor shall give notice of the contest to:
(1) a providing services to the ;
(2) each employer that has directly received an income withholding order relating to the obligor; and
(3) the person to receive payments in the income withholding order or, if no person is designated, to the obligee.
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Source & history notes
(L. 2011 H.B. 260) Effective 6-15-16, see § 454.1728
Related Missouri laws
Penalties for noncompliance
RSMo 454.1623
Administrative enforcement of orders
RSMo 454.1629
Immunity from civil liability
RSMo 454.1620
Registration of order for enforcement
RSMo 454.1632
Employer's compliance with two or more income withholding orders
RSMo 454.1617
Procedure to register order for enforcement
RSMo 454.1635
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