Ohio Administrative Code

19.03 PDF: The forms identified in this rule are referenced within various rules contained within division 5101:12 of the Administrative Code. The effective or revised effective dates of the forms are as follows:(A) JFS 01834, "Notice of Ohio Income Tax Refund Offset for Child Su…

19.03 PDF: (A) The rules contained in Chapter 5101:12-55 of the Administrative Code describe the default process and subsequent enforcement techniques that are available to enforce the support order.(B) As used in this chapter:(1) "Default" means, pursuant to division (B) of sect…

19.03 PDF: (A) At the end of each month, the support enforcement tracking system (SETS) identifies every obligor who appears to meet the default criteria.(B) Upon identifying that an obligor appears to meet the default criteria and the case meets the automatic income withholding …

19.03 PDF: (A) After an obligor is identified as appearing to meet the default criteria and before the JFS 04049, "Notice to Obligor of Default and Potential Action" (effective or revised effective date as identified in rule 5101:12-55-99 of the Administrative Code), is issued, t…

19.03 PDF: (A) The JFS 07083, "Notice to Obligor Regarding Default and 20% Payment on Arrears" (effective or revised effective date as identified in rule 5101:12-55-99 of the Administrative Code), and the JFS 04049, "Notice to Obligor of Default and Potential Action" (effective o…

19.03 PDF: (A) A final and enforceable determination of default and of the amount of arrears owed exists when:(1) The office of child support (OCS) within the Ohio department of job and family services issues a JFS 04049, "Notice to Obligor of Default and Potential Action" (effec…

19.03 PDF: (A) This rule and its supplemental rules describe the procedures that a child support enforcement agency (CSEA) shall use when it elects to utilize the financial institution data match (FIDM) program to enforce a support order after a final and enforceable determinatio…

19.03 PDF: (A) Child support enforcement agency (CSEA) investigation upon notice or discovery of an account in a financial institution.In accordance with sections 3123.25 and 3123.27 of the Revised Code, when the CSEA elects to utilize the financial institution data match (FIDM) …

19.03 PDF: (A) After the child support enforcement agency (CSEA) issues a JFS 04050, "Financial Institution Account Access Restriction" (effective or revised effective date as identified in rule 5101:12-55-99 of the Administrative Code), the CSEA shall determine whether a person …

19.03 PDF: (A) In accordance with section 3123.28 of the Revised Code, when the child support enforcement agency (CSEA) proposes to intercept an obligor's funds in an account for purposes of the financial institution data match (FIDM) program, and after the CSEA issues a JFS 0405…

19.03 PDF: (A) This rule describes the procedures that a child support enforcement agency (CSEA) shall use when it decides to assert a lien on real or personal property that is owned by an obligor who has been determined to be in default under a support order. Obtaining a lien do…

19.03 PDF: (A) This rule describes the process that a child support enforcement agency (CSEA) shall use when it decides to execute on a lien on personal or real property of an obligor that has been asserted by the CSEA in accordance with rule 5101:12-55-20 of the Administrative C…

19.03 PDF: (A) This rule describes when a child support enforcement agency (CSEA) may, as an enforcement technique, submit an obligor under a child support order to a licensing entity to suspend, refuse, or deny to renew a professional, driver's, or recreational license. Suspensi…

19.03 PDF: (A) This rule describes the process a child support enforcement agency (CSEA) will use to reinstate a professional, recreational, or driver's license that has been suspended.(B) A CSEA will send an electronic notice through the support enforcement tracking system (SETS…

19.03 PDF: (A) This rule describes the process and criterion a child support enforcement agency (CSEA) shall use to direct the registrar of motor vehicles to eliminate from the abstract maintained by the bureau of motor vehicles (BMV) any reference of a previous license suspensio…

19.03 PDF: (A) In accordance with division (B) of section 4705.021 of the Revised Code, a child support enforcement agency (CSEA) may, as an enforcement technique, refer an obligor under a child support order who is licensed to practice law in the state of Ohio to the Ohio suprem…

19.03 PDF: (A) In accordance with sections 3123.89 and 3123.90 of the Revised Code, a real time data match program has been implemented by the office of child support (OCS) within the Ohio department of job and family services (ODJFS) and the state lottery commission, each casino…

19.03 PDF: (A) This rule describes the insurance claim intercept program that a child support enforcement agency (CSEA) shall use to intercept insurance claims, settlements, or awards to be paid to an obligor on a IV-D case by an insurer, in accordance with sections 3123.23 and 3…

19.03 PDF: The forms identified in this rule are referenced within various rules contained within division 5101:12 of the Administrative Code. The effective or revised effective dates of the forms are as follows:(A) JFS 01132, "Notice of Lien" (rev. 8/2024);(B) JFS 04016, "Notice…

19.03 PDF: (A) The rules in Chapter 5101:12-57 of the Administrative Code describe the responsibility of a child support enforcement agency (CSEA) to enforce the medical support provisions that are contained in a child support order.(B) Throughout division 5101:12 of the Administ…

19.03 PDF: (A) The provisions of this rule only apply to child support orders issued or modified prior to March 28, 2019, in accordance with section 3119.30 of the Revised Code as adopted under Amended Substitute House Bill 119 of the 127th General Assembly.(B) A child support or…

19.03 PDF: (A) The provisions of this rule only apply to child support orders issued or modified prior to March 28, 2019, in accordance with division (B)(1), (B)(2), or (B)(3) of section 3119.30 of the Revised Code as adopted under Amended Substitute House Bill 119 of the 127th G…

19.03 PDF: (A) This rule describes the medical support mistake of fact hearing process which is only available to an individual whose child support order was issued or modified prior to March 28, 2019, in accordance with section 3119.30 of the Revised Code as adopted under Amende…

19.03 PDF: (A) The OMB 0970-0222, "National Medical Support Notice" (as referenced in rule 5101:12-57-99 of the Administrative Code), (NMSN) requires the enrollment in health insurance of the child subject to the child support order and the deduction of premiums for the cost of t…

19.03 PDF: (A) In accordance with section 3119.36 of the Revised Code, upon receipt of the OMB 0970-0222, "National Medical Support Notice" (as referenced in rule 5101:12-57-99 of the Administrative Code), (NMSN) and the JFS 03377, "Employer/Health Plan Administrator Health Insur…

19.03 PDF: (A) In accordance with section 3119.37 of the Revised Code, upon receipt of the OMB 0970-0222, "National Medical Support Notice" (as referenced in rule 5101:12-57-99 of the Administrative Code), (NMSN) and the JFS 03377, "Employer/Health Plan Administrator Health Insur…

19.03 PDF: (A) When the child support enforcement agency (CSEA) receives from the health plan administrator part B of the OMB 0970-0222, "National Medical Support Notice" (as referenced in rule 5101:12-57-99 of the Administrative Code), (NMSN) and information on health plan optio…

19.03 PDF: (A) In accordance with section 3119.39 of the Revised Code, when a JFS 04036, "Notice of Medical Support Enforcement Activity" (effective or revised effective date as identified in rule 5101:12-57-99 of the Administrative Code), is issued and the health insurance oblig…

19.03 PDF: (A) When the health insurance obligor files a timely, written motion for a court hearing, the court is required by section 3119.40 of the Revised Code to:(1) Send to the health insurance obligor and to any other individual the child support enforcement agency (CSEA) de…

19.03 PDF: (A) A child support enforcement agency (CSEA) shall issue the JFS 04098, "Notice Regarding National Medical Support Notice Withholding Requirements" (effective or revised effective date as identified in rule 5101:12-57-99 of the Administrative Code), when:(1) The healt…

19.03 PDF: The forms identified in this rule are referenced within various rules contained within division 5101:12 of the Administrative Code. The effective or revised effective dates of the forms are as follows:(A) JFS 03377, "Employer/Health Plan Administrator Health Insurance …

19.03 PDF: (A) This rule and its supplemental rules describe the procedures for the administrative review and adjustment of child support orders. The child support enforcement agency (CSEA) shall proceed in accordance with this rule and its supplemental rules when a IV-D applicat…

19.03 PDF: (A) Every thirty-six months after the date of the most recent child support order, the child support enforcement agency (CSEA) with administrative responsibility will initiate an administrative review of the order in which the child is currently receiving Ohio works fi…

19.03 PDF: (A) This rule describes the circumstances under which an obligor who is a member of the uniformed services may request an administrative review and temporary adjustment of a child support order when called to active military duty pursuant to section 3119.77 of the Revi…

19.03 PDF: (A) A child support enforcement agency (CSEA) will make a determination when an administrative review may be necessary or a JFS 01849, "Request for an Administrative Review of the Child Support Order" (effective or revised effective date as identified in rule 5101:12-6…

19.03 PDF: (A) On the date the administrative review is conducted, the child support enforcement agency (CSEA) will calculate the appropriate amount of the support obligations to be paid under the child support order in accordance with rule 5101:12-45-10 of the Administrative Cod…

19.03 PDF: The JFS 07724, "Administrative Adjustment Recommendation" (effective or revised effective date as identified in rule 5101:12-45-99 of the Administrative Code), notifies the parties to the child support order of their right to request an administrative adjustment hearin…

19.03 PDF: (A) The child support enforcement agency (CSEA) will schedule and conduct an administrative adjustment hearing in accordance with this rule when the CSEA determines that any party to the child support order has submitted a timely request for an administrative adjustmen…

19.03 PDF: (A) Administrative child support orders.In accordance with section 3119.86 of the Revised Code, support imposed by an administrative child support order shall be continued beyond the child's eighteenth birthday only when the child continuously attends a recognized and …

19.03 PDF: (A) This rule and its supplemental rules describe how the child support enforcement agency (CSEA) with administrative responsibility for a child support order administratively terminates the current child support obligation and the medical support provisions when a req…

19.03 PDF: (A) Administrative termination investigation.(1) The child support enforcement agency (CSEA) will complete an administrative termination investigation and issue findings and recommendations regarding whether the child support order should terminate within twenty days o…

19.03 PDF: (A) Administrative termination hearing.(1) The parties have the right to object to the administrative termination investigation findings and recommendations within fourteen days after issuance of the findings and recommendations.(2) When a party timely requests an admi…

19.03 PDF: (A) This rule and its supplemental rules describe how the child support enforcement agency (CSEA) with administrative responsibility for a child support order redirects payments under the support order.(B) The CSEA is authorized to proceed in accordance with this rule …

19.03 PDF: (A) Administrative redirection investigation.(1) The child support enforcement agency (CSEA) will complete an administrative redirection investigation and issue findings and recommendations regarding whether the child support order should be redirected, within twenty d…

19.03 PDF: (A) When the child support enforcement agency (CSEA) receives notice that a caretaker is no longer the primary caregiver for a child subject to a redirection order, the CSEA will investigate whether the caretaker to whom support amounts are redirected under the existin…

19.03 PDF: (A) This rule and its supplemental rules describe the process for a reduction of permanently assigned arrears as a result of an obligor satisfying all the terms and conditions of a waiver, installment plan compromise, lump sum compromise or a family support program.(B)…

19.03 PDF: (A) A child support enforcement agency (CSEA) may elect to establish a procedure for a reduction of permanently assigned arrears that is consistent with rule 5101:12-60-70 of the Administrative Code and its supplemental rules. When a CSEA elects to establish such a pro…