§ 9-14-805 — Permanent transfer

(a) (1) A Title IV-D child support, paternity, or Medicaid-only case shall remain within the clearinghouse for payment, collection, and distribution purposes even though a custodial parent may elect to close the case with the Office of Child Support Enforcement of the Revenue Division of the Department of Finance and Administration in regard to establishment and enforcement services. (2) The cases shall be referred to as non-Title IV-D clearinghouse cases. (b) In the event a child support case begins paying through the clearinghouse, all payments shall continue to be paid through the clearinghouse for the life of the case. (c) (1) Effective October 1, 1998, by operation of law, all cases that are enforced by the state in which the support order was initially issued on or after January 1, 1994, and in which income of the noncustodial parent is subject to withholding, shall be paid through the clearinghouse. (2) All child support cases once paid through the clearinghouse, Title IV-D and non-Title IV-D clearinghouse cases, shall continue to be paid through the clearinghouse in accordance with this section. (3) All other child support payments currently being paid through the registry of the circuit court shall continue to be paid through the registry: (A) Until October 1, 1999, at which time all child support payments made through income withholding shall, by operation of law, be redirected and paid through the clearinghouse; (B) Until an assignment of child support to the office is made in a case; or (C) Until such time as the office and the clerk of the court agree that child support payments may be redirected to and paid through the clearinghouse prior to September 30, 1999, but any such agreement shall not be effective until October 1, 1998. (4) For all child support cases with income withholding that are redirected to and paid through the clearinghouse in accordance with subdivisions (c)(1) and (2) of this section, the clerk of the court shall enter into the Arkansas Child Support Data Tracking System or shall supply by first class mail on an approved form any and all information required by the office sufficient to process child support payments.

Legislative History

Acts 1995, No. 1344, § 5; 1997, No. 1296, § 37