California Code of Regulations
Title 22 - Social Security
Division 13 - Department of Child Support Services
Chapter 6 - Enforcement Actions
Subchapter 6.1 - Immediate Enforcement Actions
Article 1 - Income Withholding Orders
Section 116108 - Employer Non-Compliance-Notification Timeframes, Electronic Funds Transfer, and Documentation Requirements

Universal Citation: 22 CA Code of Regs 116108

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 38, September 20, 2024

(a) If an obligor's employer does not comply with an income withholding order by withholding support from an obligor's disposable earnings and forwarding that support to a local child support agency within 45 days of service of the order, the local child support agency shall:

(1) Fax or electronically transmit a copy of the income withholding order to the obligor's employer, along with a letter indicating that failure to comply with an income withholding order is punishable as contempt.

(2) If the employer cannot receive a fax or other electronic transmission, send by certified mail a copy of the income withholding order along with the letter specified in (a)(1) above.

(b) If a local child support agency has electronic funds transfer capability, the local child support agency shall complete and file with the court an order to show cause to request a court order that requires payment of support by electronic funds transfer from the bank account of the obligor's employer, if either of the following conditions exist:

(1) An obligor's employer willfully failed to comply with an income withholding order, or

(2) An obligor's employer failed to comply with an income withholding order on three separate occasions within a 12 month period.

(c) A local child support agency shall personally serve the obligor's employer with a copy of the order to show cause, if either of the conditions specified in subsection (b) above, exist.

(d) A local child support agency shall document in the case record the following information regarding an employer's non-compliance with an income withholding order:

(1) The date the income withholding order was initially served on the employer.

(2) The date(s) of all verbal and/or written notification, including copies of written notification(s).

(3) The date the order to show cause permitted by subsection (b) was served.

(4) Any other information and/or documentation pertaining to the employer's failure to comply with the income withholding order.

1. New section filed 10-21-2002 as an emergency; operative 10-21-2002 (Register 2002, No. 43). Pursuant to Family Code section 17306(e), a Certificate of Compliance must be transmitted to OAL by 4-21-2003 or emergency language will be repealed by operation of law on the following day.
2. New section refiled 4-3-2003 as an emergency; operative 4-21-2003 (Register 2003, No. 14). Pursuant to Family Code section 17306(e), a Certificate of Compliance must be transmitted to OAL by 10-20-2003 or emergency language will be repealed by operation of law on the following day.
3. Certificate of Compliance as to 4-3-2003 order filed 10-17-2003; Certificate of Compliance withdrawn 12-1-2003 and repealer of section by operation of Government Code section 11346.1 (Register 2004, No. 19).
4. New section filed 5-4-2004; operative 5-4-2004 by operation of Government Code section 11343.4 (Register 2004, No. 19).

Note: Authority cited: Sections 17306, 17310 and 17312, Family Code. Reference: Sections 5241 and 5245, Family Code.

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