A. On receipt of an income withholding order, the obligor‘s employer shall immediately provide a copy of the order to the obligor.

Terms Used In Arizona Laws 25-1282

  • Child: means an individual, whether over or under the age of majority, who is or is alleged to be owed a duty of support by the individual's parent or who is or is alleged to be the beneficiary of a support order directed to the parent. See Arizona Laws 25-1202
  • Income: includes earnings or other periodic entitlements to money from any source and any other property subject to withholding for support under the laws of this state. See Arizona Laws 25-1202
  • Income withholding order: means an order or other legal process directed to an obligor's employer, payor or other debtor to withhold support from the income of the obligor. See Arizona Laws 25-1202
  • Issuing tribunal: means the tribunal of a state or foreign country that issues a support order or a judgment determining parentage of a child. See Arizona Laws 25-1202
  • Law: includes decisional and statutory law and rules and regulations having the force of law. See Arizona Laws 25-1202
  • Obligee: means any of the following:

    (a) An individual to whom a duty of support is or is alleged to be owed or in whose favor a support order or a judgment determining parentage of a child has been issued. See Arizona Laws 25-1202

  • Obligor: means an individual or the estate of a decedent that meets any of the following conditions:

    (a) Owes or is alleged to owe a duty of support. See Arizona Laws 25-1202

  • Person: means an individual, corporation, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, limited liability company, association, joint venture, public corporation, government or governmental subdivision, agency or instrumentality, or any other legal or commercial entity. See Arizona Laws 25-1202
  • State: means a state of the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands or any territory or insular possession subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. See Arizona Laws 25-1202
  • Support enforcement agency: means a public official, governmental entity or private agency authorized to do any of the following:

    (a) Seek the enforcement of support orders or laws relating to the duty of support. See Arizona Laws 25-1202

  • Tribunal: means a court, administrative agency or quasi-judicial entity authorized to establish, enforce or modify support orders or to determine parentage of a child. See Arizona Laws 25-1202

B. The employer shall treat an income withholding order issued in another state that appears regular on its face as if it had been issued by a tribunal of this state.

C. Except as provided by subsection D of this section and section 25-1283, the employer shall withhold and distribute the funds as directed in the withholding order by complying with the terms of the order that specify:

1. The duration and the amount of periodic payments of current child support, stated as a sum certain.

2. The person designated to receive payments and the address to which the payments are to be forwarded.

3. Medical support, whether in the form of periodic cash payment, stated as a sum certain, or ordering the obligor to provide health insurance coverage for the child under a policy available through the obligor’s employment.

4. The amount of periodic payments of fees and costs for a support enforcement agency, the issuing tribunal and the obligee‘s attorney, stated as sums certain.

5. The amount of periodic payments of arrears and interest on arrears, stated as sums certain.

D. The employer shall comply with the law of the state of the obligor’s principal place of employment for withholding from income with respect to:

1. The employer’s fee for processing an income withholding order.

2. The maximum amount permitted to be withheld from the obligor’s income.

3. The time within which the employer shall implement the withholding order and forward the child support payment.

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