(a) An obligor may contest the validity or enforcement of an income-withholding order issued in another state and received directly by an employer in the District by registering the order in a tribunal of the District and filing a contest to that order as provided in subchapter VI of this chapter, or otherwise contesting the order in the same manner as if the order had been issued by a tribunal of the District.
(b) The obligor shall give notice of the contest to:
(1) A support enforcement agency providing services to the obligee;
(2) Each employer that has directly received an income-withholding order relating to the obligor; and
(3) The person designated to receive payments in the income-withholding order or, if no person is designated, to the obligee.
CREDIT(S)
(Feb. 9, 1996, D.C. Law 11-81, § 506, as added July 24, 1998, D.C. Law 12-131, § 2(i), 45 DCR 2924; June 22, 2006, D.C. Law 16-137, § 2(e)(4), 53 DCR 3634.)
HISTORICAL AND STATUTORY NOTES
Prior Codifications
1981 Ed., § 30-345.6.
Effect of Amendments
D.C. Law 16-137, in subsec. (a), substituted “employer in the District by registering the order in a tribunal of the District and filing a contest to that order as provided in subchapter VI of this chapter, or otherwise contesting the order” for “employer in the District”, and deleted “Section 604 applies to the contest.”; in par. (b)(2), substituted “order relating to the obligor” for “order”; and in par. (b)(3), deleted “or agency” following “person” in two places.
Temporary Addition of Section
For temporary (225 day) addition of section, see § 2(i) of Uniform Interstate Family Support Temporary Amendment Act of 1998 (D.C. Law 12-94, April 29, 1998, law notification 45 DCR 2785).
Emergency Act Amendments
For temporary addition of section, see § 2(i) of the Uniform Interstate Family Support Emergency Amendment Act of 1997 (D.C. Act 12-225, December 23, 1997, 45 DCR 151), and § 2(i) of the Uniform Interstate Family Support Congressional Review Emergency Amendment Act of 1998 (D.C. Act 12-310, March 20, 1998, 45 DCR 1950).
Legislative History of Laws
For legislative history of D.C. Law 12-131, see Historical and Statutory Notes following § 46-301.01.
For Law 16-137, see notes following § 46-301.01.
Effective Dates
Applicability: Section 3 of D.C. Law 16-137 provides: “This act shall apply as of April 1, 2007.”
Miscellaneous Notes
Application of Law 12-131: See Historical and Statutory Notes following § 46-301.01.
Uniform Law
This section is based upon § 506 of the Uniform Interstate Family Support Act (2001 Act). See Volume 9, Part IB Uniform Laws Annotated, Master Edition, or ULA Database on Westlaw.