Title 31, Family

[§576D-11.5] Criminal history record checks. (a) The agency shall develop procedures for obtaining verifiable information regarding the criminal history of any person, including any contractor, who is employed, seeking employment with, or provides or seeks to provide services to …

§576D-12 Protection of records; divulging confidential information prohibited; penalties. (a) The agency and its agents shall keep records that may be necessary or proper in accordance with this chapter. All applications and records concerning any individual or case shall be conf…

§576D-13 Suspension or denial of licenses. (a) Upon a determination that an obligor is not in compliance with an order of support as defined in section 576D-1 or that an individual failed to comply with a subpoena or warrant relating to a paternity or child support proceeding, an…

§576D-14 Implementation of income withholding. (a) For cases being enforced under the Title IV-D state plan or for those parents applying to the agency for services, the income of an obligor who receives income on a periodic basis and who has a support obligation imposed by a sup…

§576D-15 Financial institution data match system. (a) The agency may enter into agreements with financial institutions doing business in the State to develop and operate a data match system for the purposes of support enforcement, using automated data exchanges to the maximum ext…

§576D-16 Duty of employers to report new hires to the agency; civil penalties for failure to comply with reporting; national new hire directory. (a) Beginning October 1, 1998, each employer in the State shall report to the agency within twenty days of hire, the name, address, soc…

§576D-17 Violations; penalties. (a) Unless otherwise provided, any person or entity in the State including for-profit, nonprofit, and labor organizations, and any agency, board, commission, authority, court, or committee of the State or its political subdivisions that knowingly, …

§576D-18 Investigators; access to information. (a) The attorney general shall commission child support enforcement investigators who shall have all powers and authority of a police officer or a deputy sheriff to fulfill their official responsibilities; provided that a person so a…

§576D-2 Designation of child support enforcement agency; duties. There is created the child support enforcement agency for the State as required under Title IV-D. The agency shall be within the department of the attorney general. The child support enforcement agency shall: (1) Be…

§576D-3 Obtaining or enforcing child support. (a) The agency shall undertake any legal or administrative action to secure support for a child by enforcing an existing court order or obtaining a court order of support. (b) To carry out its responsibilities imposed under this chapt…

[§576D-4] Establishment of paternity. When necessary to obtain child support for a child under section 576D-3, the agency shall take any legal or administrative action to establish the paternity of the child. The agency shall undertake the action on behalf of the State, child, cu…

§576D-5 Fee for obtaining or enforcing nonpublic assistance order. (a) The agency shall require the payment of a reasonable fee on the application of a person under section 576D-3(b)(3) who is not receiving public assistance for support of the child for assistance in obtaining or…

§576D-6 Other duties of agency. (a) The agency shall: (1) Establish a state parent locator service for the purpose of locating absent and custodial parents; (2) Cooperate with other states in: (A) Establishing paternity, if necessary; (B) Locating an absent parent who is present …

§576D-7 Guidelines in establishing amount of child support. (a) The family court, in consultation with the agency, shall establish guidelines to establish the amount of child support when an order for support is sought or being modified under this chapter. The guidelines shall be…

§576D-8 Transmittal of money collected to department of human services. The moneys collected by the agency on behalf of the department of human services shall be transmitted to the department of human services as required by Title IV-D of the Social Security Act. [L 1986, c 332, …

[§576D-9] Incentive payments to State and political subdivision. If one or more political subdivisions of the State participate in the costs of carrying out the child support enforcement activities during any particular period, each such subdivision shall be entitled to receive a…