Section 10-334 - Employer's compliance with income withholding order of another state. - Maryland Statutes

§ 10-334. Employer's compliance with income withholding order of another state.
 

(a)  Notice to obligor.- Upon receipt of an income withholding order, the obligor's employer shall immediately provide a copy of the order to the obligor. 

(b)  Full faith and credit.- The employer shall treat an income withholding order issued in another state which appears regular on its face as if it had been issued by a tribunal of this State. 

(c)  Withholding required.- Except as otherwise provided in subsection (d) of this section and § 10-335 of this subtitle, the employer shall withhold and distribute the funds as directed in the withholding order by complying with terms of the order which specify: 

(1) the duration and the amount of periodic payments of current child support, stated as a sum certain; 

(2) the person designated to receive payment and the address to which the payments are to be forwarded; 

(3) medical support, whether in the form of periodic cash payment, stated as a sum certain, or ordering the obligor to provide health insurance coverage for the child under a policy available through the obligor's employment; 

(4) the amount of periodic payments of fees and costs for a support enforcement agency, the issuing tribunal, and the obligee's attorney, stated as sums certain; and 

(5) the amount of periodic payments of arrearages and interest on arrearages, stated as sums certain. 

(d)  Fee; amount; duration.- An employer shall comply with the law of the state of the obligor's principal place of employment for withholding from income with respect to: 

(1) the employer's fee for processing an income withholding order; 

(2) the maximum amount permitted to be withheld from the obligor's income; and 

(3) the time periods within which the employer must implement the withholding order and forward the child support payment. 
 

[1997, ch. 609, § 1; 2008, ch. 522.]