252B.16 - TRANSFER OF SUPPORT ORDER PROCESSING RESPONSIBILITIES -- ONGOING PROCEDURES. - Iowa Statutes

252B.16 TRANSFER OF SUPPORT ORDER PROCESSING RESPONSIBILITIES -- ONGOING PROCEDURES. 1. For a support order being processed by the clerk of the district court, upon notification that the unit is providing enforcement services related to the order, the clerk of the district court shall immediately transfer the responsibility for the disbursement of support payments received pursuant to the order to the collection services center. 2. The department shall adopt rules pursuant to chapter 17A to ensure that the affected parties are notified that the support payment disbursement responsibilities have been transferred to the collection services center from the clerk of the district court. The rules shall include a provision requiring that a notice shall be sent by regular mail to the last known addresses of the obligee and the obligor. The issuance of notice to the obligor is the equivalent of a court order requiring the obligor to direct payment to the collection services center for disbursement. 3. Once the responsibility for receiving and disbursing support payments has been transferred from a clerk of the district court to the collection services center, the responsibility shall remain with the collection services center even if the child support recovery unit is no longer providing enforcement services, unless redirected by court order. However, the responsibility for receiving and disbursing income withholding payments shall not be redirected to a clerk of the district court.          Section History: Recent Form 86 Acts, ch 1246, § 316; 88 Acts, ch 1218, §3; 90 Acts, ch 1224, § 12; 91 Acts, ch 177, §5; 93 Acts, ch 79, §43; 98 Acts, ch 1170, §6 Referred to in § 598.22B