2020 Revised Code of Washington
Title 26 - Domestic Relations
Chapter 26.18 - Child Support Enforcement.
26.18.080 Wage assignment order—Issuance—Information transmitted to state support registry.

RCW 26.18.080 Wage assignment order—Issuance—Information transmitted to state support registry.

(1) Upon receipt of a petition or motion seeking a mandatory wage assignment that complies with RCW 26.18.070, the court shall issue a wage assignment order, as provided in RCW 26.18.100 and including the information required in RCW 26.18.090(1), directed to the employer, and commanding the employer to answer the order on the forms served with the order that comply with RCW 26.18.120 within twenty days after service of the order upon the employer.

(2) The clerk of the court shall forward a copy of the mandatory wage assignment order, a true and correct copy of the support orders in the court file, and a statement containing the obligee's address and social security number shall be forwarded to the Washington state support registry within five days of the entry of the order.

[ 1987 c 435 § 19; 1984 c 260 § 8.]

NOTES:

Effective date—1987 c 435: See RCW 26.23.900.

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