Delaware Code Title 13 Sec. 6-507 – Administrative enforcement of orders
(a) A party or support enforcement agency seeking to enforce a support order or an income-withholding order, or both, issued in another state or a foreign support order may send the documents required for registering the order to a support enforcement agency of this State.
Terms Used In Delaware Code Title 13 Sec. 6-507
- State: means the State of Delaware; and when applied to different parts of the United States, it includes the District of Columbia and the several territories and possessions of the United States. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302
(b) Upon receipt of the documents, the support enforcement agency, without initially seeking to register the order, shall consider and, if appropriate, use any administrative procedure authorized by the law of this State to enforce a support order or an income-withholding order, or both. If the obligor does not contest administrative enforcement, the order need not be registered. If the obligor contests the validity or administrative enforcement of the order, the support enforcement agency shall register the order pursuant to this chapter.
69 Del. Laws, c. 238, § ?1; 71 Del. Laws, c. 216, § ?143; 75 Del. Laws, c. 64, § ?1; 80 Del. Laws, c. 60, § ?5;