2006 Kansas Code - 23-4,128

      23-4,128.   Agency duties; initiation of out-of-state withholding; notice to obligee if obligor contests; out-of-state withholding by obligee not receiving agency services. (a) On behalf of any obligee or other person for whom the agency is already providing services pursuant to the provisions of title IV, part D, of the federal social security act (42 U.S.C. § 651 et seq.), as amended, the agency shall promptly request the agency of another jurisdiction in which the obligor of a support order derives income to enter the order for the purpose of obtaining income withholding. The agency shall compile and transmit promptly to the agency of the other jurisdiction all documentation required to enter a support order for this purpose. The agency also shall transmit immediately to the agency of the other jurisdiction a certified copy of any subsequent modifications of the support order. If the agency receives notice that the obligor is contesting income withholding in another jurisdiction, it shall immediately notify the obligee of the date, time and place of the hearings and of the obligee's right to attend.

      (b)   An obligee not receiving services from the agency pursuant to title IV, part D, of the federal social security act (42 U.S.C. § 651 et seq.), as amended, may request the appropriate agency or official in another jurisdiction in which the obligor of a support order derives income to enter the order for the purpose of obtaining income withholding. The obligee or the obligee's attorney, if any, shall compile and transmit all documentation required by the other jurisdiction for this purpose. The obligee or the obligee's attorney, if any, shall transmit immediately to the other jurisdiction a certified copy of any subsequent modifications of the support order.

      History:   L. 1985, ch. 115, § 18; L. 1994, ch. 301, § 26; July 1.