Missouri Revised Statutes
Chapter 454
Enforcement of Support Law
←454.1611
Section 454.1614.1
454.1617→
August 28, 2015
Employer's compliance with income withholding order of another state.
454.1614. (a) Upon receipt of an income withholding order, the
obligor's employer shall immediately provide a copy of the order to the
obligor.
(b) The employer shall treat an income withholding order issued in
another state which appears regular on its face as if it had been issued by
a tribunal of this state.
(c) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (d) of this section
and section 454.1617, the employer shall withhold and distribute the funds
as directed in the withholding order by complying with terms of the order
which specify:
(1) the duration and amount of periodic payments of current child
support, stated as a sum certain;
(2) the person designated to receive payments and the address to
which the payments are to be forwarded;
(3) medical support, whether in the form of periodic cash payment,
stated as a sum certain, or ordering the obligor to provide health
insurance coverage for the child under a policy available through the
obligor's employment;
(4) the amount of periodic payments of fees and costs for a support
enforcement agency, the issuing tribunal, and the obligee's attorney,
stated as sums certain; and
(5) the amount of periodic payments of arrearages and interest on
arrearages, stated as sums certain.
(d) An employer shall comply with the law of the state of the
obligor's principal place of employment for withholding from income with
respect to:
(1) the employer's fee for processing an income withholding order;
(2) the maximum amount permitted to be withheld from the obligor's
income; and
(3) the times within which the employer must implement the
withholding order and forward the child support payment.
(L. 2011 H.B. 260)
Contingent effective date, see § 454.1728
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