OCGA § 19-6-32 Entering Income Deduction Order Or Medical Support Notice For Award of Child Support; When Order Or Notice Effective; Hearing On Order

LibraryCode of Georgia
Edition2023
CurrencyCurrent through 2023-2024 Legislative Session Chapter 353 and 2023 Special Session Chapter 5
Year2023
CitationOCGA § 19-6-32

(a) As used in this Code section, the term:

(1) "Child support enforcement agency" means the entity within the Department of Human Services and its contractors that are authorized to enforce a duty of support.

(2) "Court" means judge of any court of record or an administrative law judge of the Office of State Administrative Hearings.

(3) "Earnings" means any form of payment due to an individual, regardless of source, including without limitation wages, salary, commission, bonus, workers' compensation, disability, payments pursuant to a pension or retirement program, and interest.

(4) "IV-D" means Title IV-D of the federal Social Security Act.

(5) "National Medical Support Notice" means a notice as prescribed under 42 U.S.C. Section 666(a)(19) or a substantially similar notice.

(6) "Obligee" means the individual to whom the payment of a support obligation is owed.

(7) "Obligor" means the individual owing a duty of support.

(8) "Payor" means the person that provides earnings to an obligor.

(b)

(1) Except as provided for in paragraph (1) of subsection (c) of this Code section, upon the entry of a judgment or order establishing, enforcing, or modifying a child support obligation or spousal support obligation through a court, a separate income deduction order, if one has not been previously entered, shall be entered. If the obligee is an applicant for child support services under IV-D, the obligee shall furnish copies of the support order and the income deduction order to the child support enforcement agency.

(2) For all child support orders, and spousal support orders enforced pursuant to subsection (d) of Code Section 19-11-6, the child support enforcement agency shall be authorized to issue an income deduction order without need for any amendment to the order involved or any further action by a court that issued it, provided that an opportunity for a hearing before a court is afforded. The child support enforcement agency shall also be authorized to issue a National Medical Support Notice to enforce the medical support provisions of such orders, provided that an opportunity for a hearing pursuant to Code Section 19-11-27 is afforded. Such orders or notices may be issued electronically by the child support enforcement agency. The child support enforcement agency shall issue an income deduction order or, when appropriate, a National Medical Support Notice within two business days after the information regarding a newly hired employee is entered into the centralized employee registry pursuant to Code Section 19-11-9.2 and matched with an obligor in a case being enforced by the child support enforcement agency.

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