Existing Orders for Support

Existing Orders for Support. All existing orders for child support, spousal support, and family support issued by a tribunal for specific amounts of periodic payments to the obligee are hereby declared subject to enforcement by payor income withholding. A payor income withholding order and notice may be issued prospectively by the tribunal under the terms required by this Article. All existing orders for support are subject to such other modification prospectively as may be necessary to bring them into compliance with this Article. Source: PL 14-34, § 7; redesignated by PL 20-22 § 5 (Oct. 6, 2017). In codifying PL 20-22, the Commission renumbered 8 CMC § 1573 pursuant to 1 CMC § 3806(a). The Commission changed “this Act” to “this chapter” pursuant to 1 CMC § 3806(d). To accommodate the codification of PL 20-47 (Mar. 16, 2018), the Commission created Article 1 (§§ 19101–19122) pursuant to 1 CMC § 3806(b) and changed “chapter” to “Article” pursuant to 1 CMC § 3806(d).