Title 15, Title 15 Relations

(a)(1) A party seeking to enforce a support order or an income-withholding order, or both, issued by a tribunal of another state may send the documents required for registering the order to a support enforcement agency of this state. (2) Upon receipt of the documents, the support…

The obligor of a support order of another jurisdiction may obtain voluntary income withholding by filing with the department a request for withholding and a certified copy of the support order. The department shall issue an income withholding order under § 15-16-7.

(a) With respect to a state that has not adopted the Uniform Interstate Family Support Act (UIFSA), on behalf of any client for whom the department is already providing services, or on application of a resident of this state who is an obligee or obligor of a support order issued …

If any provision of this chapter or the application of it shall for any reason be judged invalid, that judgment shall not affect, impair, or invalidate the remainder of the chapter, but shall be confined in its effect to the provision or application directly involved in the contr…

For purposes of this chapter, except as may otherwise be required by the context: (1) “Agency” means either the court or agency of any other jurisdiction with income withholding functions similar to those of the department of administration, division of taxation, child support en…

The income withholding remedy provided in this chapter is in addition to, and not in substitution for, any other remedy available to enforce a support order issued in this state or in another jurisdiction. Relief under this chapter shall not be denied, delayed, or affected becaus…

The division of taxation within the department of administration is designated as the state income withholding agency for all income withholding orders issued or registered in Rhode Island and shall have all powers, duties, and responsibilities to establish and administer income …

(a)(1) In the case of each obligor against whom a support order: (i) has been issued or modified in this state; or (ii) has been issued or modified in another jurisdiction; or (iii) has been issued or modified in another jurisdiction and has been filed and registered with the dep…

(a)(1) With respect to a support order issued, enforced, or modified on or after January 1, 1994, the income of an obligor shall be subject to immediate income withholding under this chapter on the effective date of the order, regardless of whether support payments by the obligor…

The notice to the obligor required under § 15-16-5 shall inform the obligor: (1) Of the amount of the support arrearage and the amount of income that has been withheld for payment of current support, arrearages, and any fees allowable under this chapter; (2) That the provision fo…

(a) If an obligor or obligee requests income withholding or if the obligor fails to timely file his or her statement contesting income withholding as required under § 15-16-5, the income withholding shall become effective without the necessity for a hearing before a magistrate of…

An obligor may request a family court hearing in writing within fourteen (14) days of the date of the mailing of the notice described in § 15-16-6. The family court shall notify the obligor by first class mail of the date, time, and place of the hearing within five (5) days of re…

(a) An income withholding order under this chapter shall be binding upon a withholding agent one week after service, by personal service or by certified or registered mail, of a true copy of the income withholding order. The income withholding order shall be binding upon the with…