Contest of Income Withholding Orders

Contest of Income Withholding Orders. (a) The only basis for contesting an order for income withholding shall be a mistake of fact in the amount of current or overdue support or the identity of the obligor. (b) An obligor shall be entitled to a hearing on any such order on ten working days notice to the obligee. The obligor must file his request for a hearing on the income withholding order within fourteen days of receipt of the order for income withholding. If notice of the income withholding order has been sent directly to the obligor’s employer without first being registered by the CNMI tribunal, and the obligor wishes to contest that order, the obligor must register the income-withholding order and the support order upon which it is based according to the requirements of 8 CMC § 1580 regarding registration of orders for enforcement. Source: PL 14-34, § 22, modified; redesignated by PL 20-22 § 5 (Oct. 6, 2017). Commission Comment: The Commission inserted the proper codified section referenced in subsection (b) above pursuant to its authority by 1 CMC § 3806(d). In codifying PL 20-22, the Commission renumbered 8 CMC § 1591 pursuant to 1 CMC § 3806(a). The Commission did not correct the cross reference to 8 CMC § 1580 in this section, as 8 CMC § 1580 was repealed and not re-enacted or redesignated by PL 20-22 § 4.