Ark. Code Ann. § 9-17-507 (2026)
Administrative enforcement of orders
- 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.
- 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.
History. Acts 1993, No. 468, § 1; 1997, No. 1063, § 12; 2015, No. 888, § 1.
Publisher's Notes. This section was formerly codified as § 9-17-502.
Amendments. The 2015 amendment, in (a), inserted “or support enforcement agency”, substituted “in another state” for “by a tribunal of another state”, and inserted “or a foreign support order”.
Case Notes
Statutory Scheme.
County was not required to register the income-withholding order, because the county decided to send the withholding order directly to the employer, as allowed under § 9-17-501, and the applicable statutory scheme required the employer to comply with the withholding order and by doing so, it could not be held civilly liable; the registration requirement of subsection (a) of this section was triggered only if a party sought the assistance of a support-enforcement agency in the state and the obligor contested the validity of the order. Schultz v. Butterball, 2012 Ark. 163, 402 S.W.3d 61 (2012).