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Family Code § 5700.506

CHAPTER 5. Enforcement of Support Order Without Registration

Current as of September 28, 2026Fam. Code, § 5700.506Official source ↗Ask about this

Added by Stats. 2015, Ch. 493, Sec. 5. (SB 646) Effective January 1, 2016.

(a) 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 Chapter 6, or otherwise contesting the order in the same manner as if the order had been issued by a tribunal of this state.

(b) The obligor shall give notice of the contest to:

(1) a support enforcement agency providing services to the obligee;

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

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