2006 Kansas Code - 23-4,135

      23-4,135.   Modification of support and withholding orders; income from other state, notice. (a) In a case being administered pursuant to title IV, part D, of the federal social security act (42 U.S.C. § 651 et seq.), as amended, the agency, upon receiving a certified copy of any amendment or modification to a support order entered pursuant to K.S.A. 23-4,129 and amendments thereto, shall initiate, as though it were a support order of this state, necessary procedures to amend or modify the income withholding order of this state which was based upon the entered support order. The court shall amend or modify the income withholding order to conform to the modified support order.

      (b)   In a case being administered pursuant to title IV, part D, of the federal social security act (42 U.S.C. § 651 et seq.), as amended, if the agency determines that the obligor has obtained employment in another state or has a new or additional source of income in another state, it shall notify the agency which requested the income withholding of the changes within five working days of receiving that information and shall forward to that agency all information it has or can obtain with respect to the obligor's new address and the name and address of the obligor's new employer or other source of income. The agency shall include with the notice a certified copy of the income withholding order in effect in this state.

      (c)   In all other cases the obligee or the obligee's attorney, if any, shall initiate necessary procedures to amend or modify the income withholding order of this state which was based upon the entered support order. The court shall amend or modify the income withholding order to conform to the modified support order.

      History:   L. 1985, ch. 115, § 25; L. 1994, ch. 301, § 29; July 1.