Ark. Code Ann. § 9-17-506

Contest by obligor

Known as the Uniform Interstate Family Support Act

The act spans §§ 9–9 (78 sections).

Applied in 1 court decision — leading case Schultz v. Butterball, LLC (2012)

Most recently applied in Schultz v. Butterball, LLC (April 2012)

Acts 1997, No. 1063, § 12; 2015, No. 888, § 1.

(1) An obligor may contest the validity or enforcement of an income- withholding order issued in another state and received directly by an employer in this state by registering the order in a tribunal of this state and filing a contest to that order as provided in Article 6, or otherwise contesting the order in the same manner as if the order had been issued by a tribunal of this state.

(2) The obligor shall give notice of the contest to: a support enforcement agency providing services to the obligee;

(3) each employer that has directly received an income-withholding order relating to the obligor; and

(4) the person designated to receive payments in the income-withholding order or, if no person is designated, to the obligee.

Current official text: Arkansas General Assembly. Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Arkansas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.