California Administrative Code

“Case” means a noncustodial parent, whether mother, father, or alleged father, a custodial party, and a dependent child or children. The custodial party may be one of the child's parents, or other relative or caretaker including a foster parent. If both parents are absent and lia…

“Case closure” means that Title IV-D services will no longer be provided. Case closure shall not affect a child support order or arrears that have accrued under the order.

“Central Registry” means a unit within each state responsible for receiving, screening, and distributing incoming intergovernmental cases, and for responding to inquiries on incoming intergovernmental cases.

“Child abuse” means any of the following: (a) A physical injury which is inflicted by other than accidental means on a child by another person. (b) The sexual abuse of a child or any act or omission proscribed by Penal Code, Sections 273a(a) or 273d(a). (c) The neglect of a child…

“Complainant” means a custodial party or noncustodial parent who has made a complaint to a local child support agency or requested a state hearing.

“Continuing, exclusive jurisdiction” means the authority of a tribunal to modify a support order because at least one of the parties or the child who is the subject of the order remains a resident of the state issuing the order and the parties have not expressed consent in a reco…

“County” means one of the fifty-eight administrative subdivisions in the State of California.

“County welfare worker” means a county worker providing social services in child welfare programs or a county worker determining eligibility for assistance programs.

“Disbursed” or “disbursement” means the dispensing or paying out of a collection.

“Distributed” or “distribution” means the application of monies to specific accounts to determine the appropriate disbursement of monies.

“Guardian” means the legal guardian of the child, who assumed care and control of the child while the child was in the guardian's control, and who is not a biological or adoptive parent.

“Hearing date” means the date of the state hearing which shall be deemed to include the period from the opening of the record to the close of the record, including any continuances that may have been granted.

“Intracounty case” means a case in which only one county is providing Title IV-D services.

An over-collection is a payment for support, received by the State Disbursement Unit, that cannot be applied in part or in full to a IV-D case because there is no current support obligation or arrearages owing on the case. Only a payment that the Department of Child Support Servi…

“Local child support agency” means the county office or department that has entered into a cooperative agreement with the California Department of Child Support Services to secure child, spousal and medical support, and determine paternity.

“Locate” or “Location” means information concerning the physical whereabouts of the custodial party, non-custodial parent, noncustodial parent's employers, or the noncustodial parent's sources of income or assets which is used for the purpose of establishing paternity and establi…

“Placement” means either the voluntary placement by an applicant who had custody of his/her child and placed the child in out-of-home care or the placement of a child in out-of-home care as a result of a child being declared a dependent child of the court under Welfare and Instit…

“Plan Administrator” for the purposes of Subchapter 6.1, Article 2, Medical Enforcement, means any person who collects any charge or premium from, or who adjusts or settles claims on, residents of California in connection with health insurance coverage.

“Uniform Interstate Family Support Act (UIFSA)” means the Uniform Interstate Family Support Act, codified at Part 6 of Division 9 of the Family Code, which may be cited or referenced as “UIFSA”.

(a) The Department shall annually develop and enter into a State/County Plan of Cooperation with each local child support agency. (b) The State/County Plan of Cooperation shall set forth the local child support agency's responsibilities for administering Title IV-D services and c…

(a) Each local child support agency shall have a director who oversees the administration of the agency. (b) The director shall be an employee of the county selected by the board of supervisors, or in the case of a city and county, selected by the mayor, or in the case of a regio…

(a) The local child support agency shall accurately complete all required activity and statistical reports required by the Department on a quarterly, state fiscal year, and federal fiscal year basis, as applicable. These reports shall include, but not be limited to, the following…

(a) Each local child support agency shall screen all custodial parties and noncustodial parents for family violence, as specified below: (1) For all new cases, except interstate responding cases, screening shall occur either: (A) During the initial interview, specified in Section…

(a) A family violence indicator shall be activated by a local child support agency for a custodial party or noncustodial parent and his/her child(ren) that are part of the same case as the parent against whom the custodial party or noncustodial parent is claiming family violence,…

(a) If a child support order exists, a local child support agency shall serve an income withholding order on an obligor's employer, unless a court has ordered that service be stayed. The income withholding order shall specify the following amounts, as applicable, to be withheld f…

Within 10 days of any of the following, a local child support agency shall provide written notification by first class mail, fax, or other electronic means, to an obligor's employer to terminate enforcement of an income withholding order: (a) There is no longer a current order fo…

(a) Each local child support agency shall compile and maintain a list of obligors who have child support obligations ordered by a court, administrative agency or quasi-judicial entity authorized to establish, enforce, or modify support orders or to determine paternity, whether or…

§ 117089. State. [Renumbered] This database is current through 5/1/26 Register 2026, No. 18. Source: https://govt.westlaw.com/calregs/Document/I2035C4885B6211EC9451000D3A7C4BC3?viewType=FullText&originationContext=documenttoc&transitionType=CategoryPageItem&contextData=(sc.Defaul…

(a) When California is the responding jurisdiction and genetic tests are requested to establish paternity, a local child support agency shall select the laboratory and provide the laboratory with sufficient information to schedule the genetic testing for the mother, child, and al…

(a) A local child support agency shall request an initiating state or foreign country to provide certified copies of all orders to be registered when the initiating state or foreign country requests registration of an order for enforcement and/or modification. (b) Where Californi…

(a) Each local child support agency shall: (1) Adopt and maintain the complaint resolution process specified in this Article. (2) Not discourage a complainant from filing a complaint or requesting a state hearing. (3) Not refuse to assist a complainant in requesting a state heari…

(a) Each local child support agency shall assign a complaint investigator to investigate the complaint. A complaint investigator shall not be the individual whose action or inaction is the subject of a complaint. (b) The complaint investigator shall within five business days of t…

(a) The local child support agency shall mail a “Notice of Complaint Resolution,” LCR006, dated (10/01), incorporated by reference herein, and a “Request for State Hearing,” SH001, dated (06/09), to the complainant no later than 30 days after the complaint receipt date. The LCR00…

(a) The local child support agency shall close the complaint after completing the following actions: (1) Acknowledge the complaint pursuant to Section 120102. (2) Investigate the complaint as specified in Section 120103. (3) Issue a notice of complaint resolution pursuant to Sect…

(a) The Administrative Law Judge shall voluntarily withdraw from any proceeding in which the Administrative Law Judge cannot give a fair and impartial hearing or in which the Administrative Law Judge has an interest. (b) A party may request at any time prior to the close of the r…

(a) The Administrative Law Judge shall submit a proposed decision to the Director or Director's designee within 30 days of the close of the record. The proposed decision shall be based exclusively on the evidence and other material admitted at the state hearing, or after the hear…

(a) When the major portion of a week of unemployment falls within the expiring benefit year, the entire week shall be deemed to fall within the expiring benefit year. (b) Where less than the major portion of a week of unemployment falls within the expiring benefit year, the entir…

(a) Scope. This section sets forth the principles the department shall apply to determine whether the pension payments a claimant is receiving are deductible from his or her unemployment compensation benefits as provided by Section 1255.3 of the code. (b) General Rule. The amount…

(a) Any employing unit which furnishes the department with facts in accordance with Sections 1327 and 1331 of the code and which has been notified by the department of the determination made after considering such facts shall be notified by the department of any modification in s…

(a) Upon completion of an audit or examination using probability sampling to extrapolate the recoverable amount, the Department shall make a demand to recover the extrapolated recovery amount. (b) Probability sampling shall be done in conformance with generally accepted statistic…

(a) The contractor may request an informal hearing by the Department of Health Services for any disputed issue arising out of the audit or examination of a direct service contract, including whether or not there exists a qualified underpayment and, if so, whether or not it should…

(a) If the wage records relating to a claim of an industrially disabled person have been destroyed under proper approval, the industrially disabled person shall execute the affidavit provided for in Section 2777 of the code. The affidavit shall be on a form prescribed by the depa…

Monthly Adjusted Gross Persons Dependent On Income Income 1 2 3 4 5 or more 0- 569 $ 3.08 $ 2.75 $ 2.50 $ 2.25 $ 2.00 570- 599 $ 3.33 $ 3.00 $ 2.67 $ 2.42 $ 2.17 600- 649 $ 3.75 $ 3.33 $ 3.00 $ 2.67 $ 2.42 650- 699 $ 4.17 $ 3.75 $ 3.42 $ 3.08 $ 2.75 700- 749 $ 4.67 $ 4.17 $ 3.75 …

(a) The Department may request an independent medical examination to determine its liability for the payment of Family Temporary Disability Insurance benefits to a claimant. Any care recipient, except one who depends for healing entirely upon prayer or spiritual means, as provide…

(a) Refer to Subchapter 8 for additional procedures for the child subject to the provision of the ICWA. (b) The agency shall comply with Family Code section 9201 and Welfare and Institutions Code section 10852.

(a) Refer to Subchapter 8 for additional procedures for the child subject to the provisions of the ICWA. (b) Services provided to adoptees, birth parents, and adoptive parents following the finalization of an adoption shall include the following:

(a) The agency shall assess the child. The assessment shall be in writing and include, but not be limited to, the following information about the child: (1) Identification, including the child's sex, age, race, and ethnicity. (2) A complete medical report as defined at Section 35…

(a) The adoption service provider shall advise a birth parent, as required by Family Code Section 8801.5, when the birth parent is considering the placement of his or her child for independent adoption unless the prospective adoptive parent is a grandparent, aunt, uncle, sibling,…

(a) The agency shall interview the birth parent as required by Family Code Section 8808. (1) (Reserved) (b) Prior to accepting a consent to adoption or a waiver of right to revoke consent, the agency shall: (1) Obtain information from the birth parent regarding the child's backgr…