Ark. Code Ann. § 9-17-507

Administrative enforcement of orders

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 1993, No. 468, § 1; 1997, No. 1063, § 12; 2015, No. 888, § 1.

(1) A party or support enforcement agency seeking to enforce a support order or an income-withholding order, or both, issued in another state or a foreign support order 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 enforcement agency, without initially seeking to register the order, shall consider and, if appropriate, use any administrative procedure authorized by the law of this state to enforce a support order or an income-withholding order, or both. If the obligor does not contest administrative enforcement, the order need not be registered. If the obligor contests the validity or administrative enforcement of the order, the support enforcement agency shall register the order pursuant to this chapter.

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.