1999 Florida Code
TITLE XXX SOCIAL WELFARE
Chapter 409 Social and Economic Assistance  
409.25658   Use of unclaimed property for past due child support.

409.25658  Use of unclaimed property for past due child support.--

(1)  In a joint effort to facilitate the collection and payment of past due child support, the Department of Revenue, in cooperation with the Department of Banking and Finance, shall identify persons owing child support collected through a court who are presumed to have abandoned property held by the Department of Banking and Finance.

(2)  The department shall periodically provide the Department of Banking and Finance with an electronic file of child support obligors who owe past due child support. The Department of Banking and Finance shall conduct a data match of the file against all apparent owners of abandoned property under chapter 717 and provide the resulting match list to the department.

(3)  Upon receipt of the data match list, the department shall provide to the Department of Banking and Finance the obligor's last known address. The Department of Banking and Finance shall follow the notification procedures under s. 717.118.

(4)  Prior to paying an obligor's approved claim, the Department of Banking and Finance shall notify the department that such claim has been approved. Upon confirmation that the Department of Banking and Finance has approved the claim, the department shall immediately send a notice by certified mail to the obligor, with a copy to the Department of Banking and Finance, advising the obligor of the department's intent to intercept the approved claim up to the amount of the past due child support, and informing the obligor of the obligor's right to request a hearing under chapter 120. The Department of Banking and Finance shall retain custody of the property until a final order has been entered and any appeals thereon have been concluded. If the obligor fails to request a hearing, the department shall enter a final order instructing the Department of Banking and Finance to transfer to the department the property in the amount stated in the final order. Upon such transfer, the Department of Banking and Finance shall be released from further liability related to the transferred property.

(5)  The provisions of this section provide a supplemental remedy, and the department may use this remedy in conjunction with any other method of collecting child support.

History.--s. 26, ch. 98-397.