Oklahoma § 43-413 - Payment of support through registry

§ 43-413. Payment of support through registry

A. The Department of Human Services shall maintain a

Centralized Support Registry to receive, allocate and distribute

support payments. All child support, spousal support, and related

support payments shall be paid through the Registry as follows:

1. In all cases in which child support services are being

provided under the state child support plan as provided under

Section 237 of Title 56 of the Oklahoma Statutes; and

2. In all other cases in which support is being paid by income

withholding.

B. When child support enforcement services are being provided

under Section 237 of Title 56 of the Oklahoma Statutes, all monies

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owed for child support shall continue to be paid through the

Registry until child support is no longer owed.

C. Any party desiring child support, spousal support, or

related support payments to be paid through the Registry may request

the court to order the payments to be made through the Registry.

Upon such request the court shall order payments to be made through

the Registry.

D. The Registry shall maintain the following information on all

cases in which support is paid through the Registry. This

information shall include, but not be limited to:

1. Names, social security numbers and dates of birth for both

parents and the children for whom support is ordered;

2. The amount of periodic support owed under the order;

3. Case identification numbers; and

4. Payment address.

E. In all cases, except those being enforced under the state

child support plan as provided under Section 237 of Title 56 of the

Oklahoma Statutes, employers shall provide the Registry with a copy

of the notice of income assignment specified in Section 1171.3 of

Title 12 and Section 240.2 of Title 56 of the Oklahoma Statutes.

Employers, parties, and obligees to an order, upon request, shall

provide additional information necessary for the Registry to

identify and properly allocate and distribute payments.

F. An obligee, pursuant to a judgment, decree, or order in

which payment of support is required by this section to be paid

through the Registry or whose support is being paid through the

Registry, shall provide information as directed by the Department of

Human Services necessary to properly allocate and distribute the

payments.

G. All payments made through the Registry shall be allocated

and distributed in accordance with Department of Human Services’

policy and federal regulations.

H. The Department of Human Services shall promulgate rules as

necessary to implement the provisions of this section.

Added by Laws 1992, c. 279, § 4, emerg. eff. May 25, 1992. Amended

by Laws 1997, c. 402, § 18, eff. July 1, 1997; Laws 1998, c. 323, §

13, eff. Oct. 1, 1998; Laws 2000, c. 384, § 8, eff. Nov. 1, 2000;

Laws 2001, c. 407, § 15, eff. July 1, 2001; Laws 2002, c. 314, § 5,

eff. Nov. 1, 2002.