Tennessee Code Annotated
Tenn. Code Ann. § 36-5-2506 (2026)
Contest by obligor
✓ current as of May 2026
- (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 part 26, 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.
Acts 2010, ch. 901, § 1.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 1
case, 2018–2018 · leading case: State, ex rel., Shem Peter Malmquist v. Danielle Nicolosi Malmquist (Tenn. Ct. App. 2018).
State, ex rel., Shem Peter Malmquist v. Danielle Nicolosi Malmquist (Tenn. Ct. App. 2018). “§§ 36-5-2506, -2606 (2017).3 But Mother’s request to modify in Tennessee a child support order issued by a Tennessee court is not a proceeding under the UIFSA.”
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