Chapter 119A

Section 1. It is the public policy of the commonwealth that dependent children shall be maintained, as completely as possible, from the resources of their parents, thereby relieving or avoiding, at least in part, the burden borne by the citizens of the commonwealth. It is hereby …

Section 10. The state treasurer shall serve as treasurer of the child support trust fund. He shall maintain within the child support trust fund 3 separate accounts as follows:— (1) A child support payments account of amounts to be distributed, without appropriation, to the proper…

Section 10A. (a) If a case receiving IV–D services is otherwise eligible for case closure and the commissioner of revenue determines that (1) an obligor has made an overpayment of $10 or less of the amount of any child support owed by the obligor, or (2) child support in the amou…

Section 11. The state treasurer shall from time to time requisition from said child support trust fund such amounts, not exceeding the amounts credited to the child support payments account, as the commissioner of revenue deems necessary for the payment of child support to oblige…

Section 12. (a) Each judgment or order for support issued pursuant to section 28 of chapter 119 and chapters 207, 208, 209, 209A and 209C, or received, entered or registered pursuant to chapter 209D shall conform to and shall be enforced according to this section. Each such judgm…

Section 13. (a) Any payment or installment of support under any child support order issued by any court of this commonwealth or by a court or agency of competent jurisdiction of any other state shall be on or after the date it is due, a judgment by operation of law, with the full…

Section 14. (a) The IV–D agency shall have access to and may request from all entities and individuals in the commonwealth, including for- profit, nonprofit, and governmental employers and other sources of income or benefits, information on the employment, compensation, and benef…

Section 15. The IV–D agency may take testimony and proofs under oath with reference to any matter within the administrative authority of the agency and, in connection therewith, may issue subpoenas or summonses and require the attendance and testimony of witnesses and the product…

Section 16. (a)(1) For purposes of this section, the following words shall have the following meanings: ''License'', any license, permit, certificate, registration, charter, authority or any other form of permission required by law for the operation or use of property, the conduc…

Section 17. The department shall establish procedures for the prompt resolution of disputes concerning the collection and disbursement of child support and shall prepare informational materials for distribution to obligors and obligees describing such procedures and, where applic…

Section 1A. For purposes of administering the child support enforcement program pursuant to this chapter, the following terms shall have the following meanings: ''Business day'', a day on which offices of the commonwealth are open for regular business. ''Employee'', an individual…

Section 2. (a) In accordance with the provisions of Title IV, Part D of the Social Security Act, the IV–D agency shall provide IV–D services to children and families, whether or not they are recipients of public assistance, to establish, modify, and enforce child support obligati…

Section 2A. Whoever willfully corrupts or by force or threats of force, including any threatening letter or communication, attempts to intimidate or impede an officer or employee of the commonwealth acting in an official capacity under this chapter, or in any other way corrupts o…

Section 3. (a) In enforcing the subrogation rights of the department of transitional assistance, the department of children and families and the division of medical assistance, the IV–D agency may file an action either in the name of the recipient of public assistance or in the n…

Section 3A. In any case requiring the establishment of paternity, the IV–D agency may, on the basis of an affidavit by the mother or the putative father alleging that sexual intercourse between the mother and putative father occurred during the probable period of conception and w…

Section 3B. (a) With respect to a child support order in a case receiving IV–D services, every three years, or more frequently, as the commissioner may by regulation determine, upon the request of either parent, or if there is an assignment under Title IV, Part A of the Social Se…

Section 4. (a) The IV–D agency shall, subject to appropriation, employ personnel, develop automated collection, disbursement and data systems, and establish field offices to carry out its responsibilities. Said IV–D agency is also authorized to contract with other public and priv…

Section 5. (a) The IV–D agency shall establish and operate a unit, which shall be known as ''the state disbursement unit'', for the collection and disbursement of payments under support orders in all cases being enforced by the IV–D agency and, on and after October 1, 1998, in al…

Section 5A. (a) Personal data collected and maintained by the IV–D agency shall not be a public record under chapter 66 and access to this data shall be available only to employees of the IV–D agency and its contractors only to the extent reasonably necessary for the performance …

Section 5B. A person or agency, including the IV–D agency, seeking personal data which the IV–D agency is prohibited from disclosing because of a risk of harm, but which could otherwise be disclosed pursuant to subsection (a) of section 5A, or which the Federal Parent Locator Ser…

Section 6. (a) The IV–D agency, in accordance with Title IV, Part D of the Social Security Act, is hereby authorized to institute collection procedures for all arrearages which have accrued against child support payments owed pursuant to a court judgment or support order, or an o…

Section 6A. (a) The IV–D agency is hereby authorized to attach payments, distributions or benefits owing to an obligor under any pension or retirement plan, as provided in this section. (b)(1) With respect to any pension or retirement plan governed by the Employee Retirement Inco…

Section 7. (a) If the IV–D agency is providing services to an obligee or to an obligor, it may enforce an income withholding order or a qualified domestic relations order pursuant to the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, 29 USC 1056, by sending notice of the withholding or…

Section 8. A child support enforcement agency, party to a child support order or other entity in a jurisdiction outside the commonwealth may request the IV–D agency to enforce a child support order issued by a court or administrative agency in another jurisdiction, or a lien aris…

Section 9. There is hereby established, separate and apart from all the public monies or funds of the commonwealth, a child support trust fund, which shall be administered by the IV–D agency without liability on the part of the commonwealth beyond the amounts credited to and earn…