Child support services shall proceed in accordance with this chapter only if child support services sends a notice to the individual by regular mail to the last known address of the individual. The notice shall include all of the following:
 1. The address and telephone number of child support services and the child support services’ case number.

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Terms Used In Iowa Code 252J.3

  • Certificate of noncompliance: means a document provided by child support services certifying that the named individual is not in compliance with any of the following:
  • Child: includes but shall not be limited to a stepchild, foster child, or legally adopted child and means a child actually or apparently under eighteen years of age, and a dependent person eighteen years of age or over who is unable to maintain the person's self and is likely to become a public charge. See Iowa Code 252A.2
  • Child support services: means child support services created in section 252B. See Iowa Code 252J.1
  • following: when used by way of reference to a chapter or other part of a statute mean the next preceding or next following chapter or other part. See Iowa Code 4.1
  • Individual: means a parent, an obligor, or a putative father in a paternity or support proceeding. See Iowa Code 252J.1
  • License: includes licenses for hunting, fishing, boating, or other recreational activity. See Iowa Code 252J.1
  • Licensing authority: means a county treasurer, county recorder or designated depositary, the supreme court, or an instrumentality, agency, board, commission, department, officer, organization, or any other entity of the state, which has authority within this state to suspend or revoke a license or to deny the renewal or issuance of a license authorizing an individual to register or operate a motor vehicle or to engage in a business, occupation, profession, recreation, or industry. See Iowa Code 252J.1
  • Obligor: means a natural person as defined in section 252G. See Iowa Code 252J.1
  • Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
  • Subpoena or warrant: means a subpoena or warrant relating to a paternity or support proceeding initiated or obtained by child support services or a child support agency as defined in section 252H. See Iowa Code 252J.1
  • Support: means support or support payments as defined in section 252D. See Iowa Code 252J.1
  • Support order: means an order for support issued pursuant to chapter 232, 234, 252A, 252C, 252D, 252E, 252F, 252H, 598, 600B, or any other applicable chapter, or under a comparable statute of another state or foreign country as registered with the clerk of the district court or certified to child support services. See Iowa Code 252J.1
  • Withdrawal of a certificate of noncompliance: means a document provided by child support services certifying that the certificate of noncompliance is withdrawn and that the licensing authority may proceed with issuance, reinstatement, or renewal of an individual's license. See Iowa Code 252J.1
 2. A statement that the obligor is not in compliance with a support order or the individual has not complied with a subpoena or warrant.
 3. A statement that the individual may request a conference with child support services to contest the action.
 4. A statement that if, within twenty days of mailing of the notice to the individual, the individual fails to contact child support services to schedule a conference, child support services shall issue a certificate of noncompliance, bearing the individual’s name, social security number, and the child support services’ case number, to any appropriate licensing authority, certifying that the obligor is not in compliance with a support order or an individual has not complied with a subpoena or warrant.
 5. A statement that in order to stay the issuance of a certificate of noncompliance the request for a conference shall be in writing and shall be received by child support services within twenty days of mailing of the notice to the individual.
 6. The names of the licensing authorities to which child support services intends to issue a certificate of noncompliance.
 7. A statement that if child support services issues a certificate of noncompliance to an appropriate licensing authority, the licensing authority shall initiate proceedings to refuse to issue or renew, or to suspend or revoke the individual’s license, unless child support services provides the licensing authority with a withdrawal of a certificate of noncompliance.