Current through Register Vol. 54, No. 38, September 21, 2024
(a) A support order shall be enforced by
income withholding as required by law in the manner provided by Rule
1910.21.
(b) Upon the obligor's failure to comply with
a support order, the order may also be enforced by any one or all of the
following remedies:
(1) pursuant to Rule
1910.21, and without further
hearing or prior notice to the obligor, increasing the amount of monthly
support payments for payment of the overdue support at a rate to be determined
by the court; withholding or seizing periodic or lump sum payments of income
from a government agency, including unemployment compensation, social security,
retirement or disability benefits and any other benefits; withholding or
seizing periodic or lump sum payments of income from insurance carriers or
privately-insured employers, including workers' compensation benefits;
withholding or seizing judgments or settlements; and withholding or seizing
public and private retirement funds in pay status;
(2) pursuant to Rule
1910.22, imposing liens on real
property;
(3) pursuant to Rule
1910.23, attaching and seizing
assets of the obligor held in financial institutions;
(4) pursuant to Rule
1910.24, reducing and executing a
judgment against the obligor;
(5)
pursuant to Rules
1910.25 through
1910.25 -6, initiating contempt
proceedings;
(6) reporting the
amount of overdue support to consumer reporting agencies in the manner
prescribed by
23 Pa.C.S. §
4303;
(7) when the obligor owes overdue support in
an amount of three months or more, suspending occupational, commercial/driver's
and recreational licenses in the manner prescribed by
23 Pa.C.S. §
4355.
These remedies are cumulative and not alternative.
(c) For purposes of this
Rule, overdue support remains subject to the remedies set forth in subdivision
(b) of this Rule until paid in full. Except as provided in
23 Pa.C.S. §
4355 for
suspension of licenses, neither a repayment schedule subsequently agreed to by
the parties nor an order of court establishing such a schedule precludes the
use of these remedies for collecting overdue support more quickly, whenever
feasible.
