§ 3121.01 Collection and disbursement of child support definitions
§ 3121.02 Ensuring that withholding or deduction from income or assets of obligor is available
§ 3121.03 Withholding or deduction from income or assets of obligor
§ 3121.031 Determining employment status of obligor, obligor’s social security number, name and business address of obligor’s employer, and other information
§ 3121.032 Including withholding or deduction requirements or other appropriate requirements in notices and orders
§ 3121.033 Aggregate amount withheld or deducted to satisfy amount ordered for support
§ 3121.034 Priority of withholding or deduction requirement for support
§ 3121.035 Notices and orders sent to persons required to comply
§ 3121.036 Attaching additional notice to obligor to provide certain information
§ 3121.037 Contents of withholding or deduction notice
§ 3121.038 Limit on information included in withholding or deduction notice
§ 3121.039 Prior orders and notices considered to be notices and orders under 2001 provisions
§ 3121.0310 Adoption of standard forms for notices
§ 3121.0311 Notice to obligor’s workers’ compensation attorney regarding lump sum payment
§ 3121.04 Cash bond given by obligor
§ 3121.05 Obligor with no income or assets to give notice of change – default hearing
§ 3121.06 Obligor with no income or assets to give notice of change – modification hearing
§ 3121.07 Unemployment compensation benefits withholding or deductions
§ 3121.08 Prisoner earnings
§ 3121.09 Withholding support from payments due from the state to certain persons
§ 3121.091 Service of notice of withholding support from payments due from the state to certain persons
§ 3121.12 Procedure concerning lump sum payment
§ 3121.14 Notice of change in source of income or accounts
§ 3121.15 Issuing notice requiring withholding when obligor begins employment
§ 3121.16 Notice is final and enforceable
§ 3121.18 Fees
§ 3121.19 Time for forwarding amount withheld or deducted
§ 3121.20 Combining amounts to be forwarded
§ 3121.21 Payor or financial institution – immunity
§ 3121.23 Service
§ 3121.24 Parties must provide information to agency
§ 3121.25 Notice of request for modification or filing action for enforcement
§ 3121.27 Including general statement in support orders
§ 3121.28 Including statements concerning monthly payment in support orders
§ 3121.29 Including warning notice in support orders
§ 3121.30 Including obligor’s date of birth and social security number in support orders
§ 3121.33 Notices and orders final and enforceable by court
§ 3121.34 Complying with withholding or deduction notice without amending order
§ 3121.35 Court to have all powers necessary to enforce order
§ 3121.36 Authority to collect arrearage after termination of order
§ 3121.37 Contempt for failure to comply with administrative order
§ 3121.371 Contempt for failure to comply with withholding order
§ 3121.372 Contempt for failure to send notice
§ 3121.373 Hearing – notice
§ 3121.38 Liability of payor or financial institution
§ 3121.381 Fining noncomplying payor or financial institution
§ 3121.382 Issuing order upon finding of willful failure to comply with withholding notice
§ 3121.39 Employer not to take adverse action against employee subject to child support withholding
§ 3121.43 Duties of office of child support
§ 3121.44 Support payments to be made to office of child support
§ 3121.441 Direct spousal support payments
§ 3121.45 Payments deemed to be gifts
§ 3121.46 Order for payments to third person
§ 3121.47 Application to child support enforcement agency for administration of order
§ 3121.48 Separate account for support payments received as trustee
§ 3121.49 Retention of interest
§ 3121.50 Distributing amount forwarded to obligee
§ 3121.51 Administering orders on monthly basis
§ 3121.52 Calculating monthly amount due where payments made on other basis
§ 3121.53 Payments made on other basis not to affect the frequency or the amount of the support payments
§ 3121.54 Payment of support commencing on day other than first day of month
§ 3121.56 Collecting administrative charge
§ 3121.57 Applying administrative charge
§ 3121.58 Separate arrearage account for unpaid charges
§ 3121.59 Disposing of fines paid for failure to give notice of changes
§ 3121.64 Quarterly distributions of administrative charges to county agencies
§ 3121.65 Restriction on use of administrative charges
§ 3121.67 Contracting with public or private entities to perform duties
§ 3121.69 Using facsimile signature
§ 3121.71 Administrative rules
§ 3121.74 Account information access agreements – financial data matching program
§ 3121.75 Deducting fee for each withdrawal
§ 3121.76 Confidentiality requirements
§ 3121.77 Financial institutions or personnel – immunity
§ 3121.78 Administrative rules concerning account information agreements
§ 3121.81 Case registry of support orders
§ 3121.82 Information included in case registry
§ 3121.83 Maintenance of case registry
§ 3121.84 Comparing information
§ 3121.85 Duties of agencies and office of child support to update and maintain information
§ 3121.86 Administrative rules for case registry
§ 3121.89 Employee and employer defined
§ 3121.891 Duty to make a new hire report
§ 3121.892 Information included in new hire report
§ 3121.893 Methods for making new hire report
§ 3121.894 New hires directory
§ 3121.895 Comparing social security numbers in new hire report with case registry
§ 3121.896 Director of job and family services to determine use of information – increase of payment to contractor
§ 3121.897 New hire information furnished to national directory of new hires
§ 3121.898 Using new hire reports
§ 3121.899 Disclosure of new hire reports
§ 3121.8910 Fee for failing to make new hire report
§ 3121.8911 Administrative rules for new hire report
§ 3121.91 Interstate cooperation
§ 3121.92 International cooperation
§ 3121.99 Penalty

Terms Used In Ohio Code > Chapter 3121 - Collection and Disbursement of Child Support

  • Affidavit: A written statement of facts confirmed by the oath of the party making it, before a notary or officer having authority to administer oaths.
  • Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
  • Annuity: A periodic (usually annual) payment of a fixed sum of money for either the life of the recipient or for a fixed number of years. A series of payments under a contract from an insurance company, a trust company, or an individual. Annuity payments are made at regular intervals over a period of more than one full year.
  • Another: when used to designate the owner of property which is the subject of an offense, includes not only natural persons but also every other owner of property. See Ohio Code 1.02
  • Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
  • Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
  • Bond: includes an undertaking. See Ohio Code 1.02
  • Child: includes child by adoption. See Ohio Code 1.59
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
  • Default: means any failure to pay under a support order that is an amount greater than or equal to the amount of support payable under the support order for one month. See Ohio Code 3121.01
  • Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
  • Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
  • Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
  • Financial institution: means a bank, savings and loan association, or credit union, or a regulated investment company or mutual fund. See Ohio Code 3121.01
  • Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
  • Guardian: A person legally empowered and charged with the duty of taking care of and managing the property of another person who because of age, intellect, or health, is incapable of managing his (her) own affairs.
  • imprisonment: means being imprisoned under a sentence imposed for an offense or serving a term of imprisonment, prison term, jail term, term of local incarceration, or other term under a sentence imposed for an offense in an institution under the control of the department of rehabilitation and correction, a county, multicounty, municipal, municipal-county, or multicounty-municipal jail or workhouse, a minimum security jail, a community-based correctional facility, or another facility described or referred to in section 2929. See Ohio Code 1.05
  • in writing: includes any representation of words, letters, symbols, or figures; this provision does not affect any law relating to signatures. See Ohio Code 1.59
  • Income: means any form of monetary payment, including personal earnings; workers' compensation payments; unemployment compensation benefits to the extent permitted by, and in accordance with, sections 3121. See Ohio Code 3121.01
  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
  • Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
  • Payor: means any person or entity that pays or distributes income to an obligor, including an obligor if the obligor is self-employed; an employer; an employer paying an obligor's workers' compensation benefits; the public employees retirement board; the governing entity of a municipal retirement system; the board of trustees of the Ohio police and fire pension fund; the state teachers retirement board; the school employees retirement board; the state highway patrol retirement board; a provider, as defined in section 3305. See Ohio Code 3121.01
  • Person: includes an individual, corporation, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, and association. See Ohio Code 1.59
  • Personal property: All property that is not real property.
  • Property: means real and personal property. See Ohio Code 1.59
  • Rescission: The cancellation of budget authority previously provided by Congress. The Impoundment Control Act of 1974 specifies that the President may propose to Congress that funds be rescinded. If both Houses have not approved a rescission proposal (by passing legislation) within 45 days of continuous session, any funds being withheld must be made available for obligation.
  • Rule: includes regulation. See Ohio Code 1.59
  • state: means the state of Ohio. See Ohio Code 1.59
  • Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
  • Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
  • United States: includes all the states. See Ohio Code 1.59
  • Whoever: includes all persons, natural and artificial; partners; principals, agents, and employees; and all officials, public or private. See Ohio Code 1.02