Iowa · statute · Iowa Code ch. 252D · 23 active provisions
If support payments ordered under this chapter or chapter 232, 234, 252A, 252C, 252E, 252F, 598, 600B, or any other applicable chapter, or under a comparable statute of another state or foreign country, as certified to child support services, are not paid to the clerk of the district court or the collection services ce…
All orders for support entered on or after July 1, 1984, shall notify the person ordered to pay support of the mandatory withholding of income required under section 252D.1. However, this subchapter is sufficient notice of implementation of mandatory withholding of income under section 252D.1 without any further notice…
1. In a support order issued or modified on or after November 1, 1990, for which services are being provided by child support services, and in any support orders issued or modified after January 1, 1994, for which services are not provided by child support services, the income of a support obligor is subject to withhol…
Specified sums shall be deducted from the obligor’s income sufficient to pay the support obligation and any judgment established or delinquency accrued under the support order. The amount withheld pursuant to an income withholding order or notice of order for income withholding shall not exceed the amount specified in…
An order for support entered after November 1, 1990, shall contain the notice of immediate income withholding. However, this subchapter is sufficient notice for implementation of immediate income withholding without any further notice.
As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires: 1. “Child support services” means the same as child support services created in section 252B.2. 2. “Department” means the department of health and human services. 3. “Income” means all of the following: a. Any periodic form of payment due an individual, re…
If support payments are ordered under this chapter, chapter 232, 234, 252A, 252C, 252E, 252F, 252H, 598, 600B, or any other applicable chapter, or under a comparable statute of another state or foreign country, and if income withholding relative to such support payments is allowed under this chapter, child support serv…
1. The district court shall provide notice by sending a copy of the order for income withholding or a notice of the order for income withholding to the obligor and the obligor’s payor of income by regular mail, with proof of service completed according to rule of civil procedure 1.442. Child support services shall prov…
Child support services or the district court shall send a notice of the income withholding order to the obligor at the time the notice is sent to the payor of income.
1. The court or child support services may, by ex parte order, modify a previously entered income withholding order if the court or child support services determines any of the following: a. There has been a change in the amount of the current support obligation. b. The amount required to be withheld under the income w…
When the obligor is responsible for paying more than one support obligation and the payor of income has received more than one income withholding order or notice of an order for the obligor, the payor shall withhold amounts in accordance with all of the following: 1. The total of all amounts withheld shall not exceed t…
When payment of income is irregular, and an order for immediate or mandatory income withholding has been entered by child support services or the district court, the income payor shall withhold income equal to the total that would have been withheld had there been regular monthly income. The amounts withheld shall not…
Child support services or the district court may enter an ex parte order for income withholding when the obligor is paid by a lump sum income source. When a sole payment is made or payment occurs at two-month or greater intervals, the withholding order may include all current and delinquent support due through the curr…
The remedies provided in this chapter do not exclude the use of other civil or criminal remedies in enforcing support obligations.
1. An obligor whose support payments are automatically withheld from the obligor’s paycheck shall not be delinquent or in arrears if all of the following conditions are met: a. Any delinquency or arrearage is caused solely by a disparity between the schedules of the obligor’s regular pay dates and the scheduled date th…
Child support services is designated as the entity of the state to administer income withholding in accordance with the procedures specified for keeping adequate records to document, track, and monitor support payments on cases subject to Tit. IV-D of the federal Social Security Act. The collection services center is d…
A person who knowingly makes a false statement or representation of a material fact or knowingly fails to disclose a material fact in order to secure an income withholding order or notice of income withholding against another person and to receive support payments or additional support payments pursuant to this chapter…
The department shall adopt the administrative rules necessary to implement the provisions of this chapter as they pertain to the operations of child support services.
An income withholding order entered by child support services pursuant to this chapter shall be filed with the clerk of the district court. In lieu of any signature on the order which may otherwise be required by law or rule, the order shall have affixed the name and address of child support services. For the purposes…
1. An income withholding order may be entered to enforce a support order of another state or foreign country. That support order may be entered and filed with the clerk of the district court at the time the income withholding order is entered. Entry of the support order of another state or foreign country under this su…
1. Issues related to visitation, custody, or other provisions not related to the support provisions of a support order are not grounds for a motion to quash, revoke, suspend, or stay a withholding order. 2. Support orders shall not be modified under a motion to quash a withholding order.
An ex parte order entered under this chapter may also include provisions for enforcement of medical support when medical support provisions are included in the support order. The ex parte order may require income withholding of a dollar amount for medical support or implementation of provision for dependent coverage un…
An obligor under this chapter may move to quash an income withholding order or a notice of income withholding by filing a motion to quash with the clerk of court. 1. Grounds for contesting a withholding order under this chapter include all of the following: a. A mistake of fact, which for purposes of this chapter means…