Utah Code 78B-14-507. Administrative enforcement of orders
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(1) A party or support enforcement agency seeking to enforce a support order or an income-withholding order, or both, issued in another state, or seeking to enforce a foreign support order, may send the documents required for registering the order to a support enforcement agency of this state.
Terms Used In Utah Code 78B-14-507
- Foreign support order: means a support order of a foreign tribunal. See Utah Code 78B-14-102
- Income-withholding order: means an order or other legal process directed to an obligor's employer or other source of income as defined in Section
26B-9-101 , to withhold support from the income of the obligor. See Utah Code 78B-14-102 - Law: includes decisional and statutory law and rules and regulations having the force of law. See Utah Code 78B-14-102
- Obligor: means an individual who, or the estate of a decedent that:(17)(a) owes or is alleged to owe a duty of support;(17)(b) is alleged but has not been adjudicated to be a parent of a child;(17)(c) is liable under a support order; or(17)(d) is a debtor in a proceeding under Part 7, Support Proceedings Under Convention. See Utah Code 78B-14-102
- Register: means to file in a tribunal of this state a support order or judgment determining parentage of a child issued in another state or a foreign country. See Utah Code 78B-14-102
- 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 Utah Code 78B-14-102
- Support enforcement agency: means a public official, governmental entity, or private agency authorized to:
(27)(a) seek enforcement of support orders or laws relating to the duty of support;(27)(b) seek establishment or modification of child support;(27)(c) request determination of parentage of a child;(27)(d) attempt to locate obligors or their assets; or(27)(e) request determination of the controlling child support order. See Utah Code 78B-14-102- Support order: means a judgment, decree, order, decision, or directive, whether temporary, final, or subject to modification, issued in a state or foreign country for the benefit of a child, a spouse, or a former spouse, which provides for monetary support, health care, arrearages, retroactive support, or reimbursement for financial assistance provided to an individual obligee in place of child support. See Utah Code 78B-14-102
(2) 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.