Oregon Statutes 110.602 – Administrative enforcement of order
(1) 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.
Terms Used In Oregon Statutes 110.602
- Foreign support order: means a support order of a foreign tribunal. See Oregon Statutes 110.503
- Income: includes earnings or other periodic entitlements to money from any source and any other property subject to withholding for support under the law of this state. See Oregon Statutes 110.503
- Income withholding order: means an order or other legal process directed to an obligor's employer or other debtor issued pursuant to ORS § 25. See Oregon Statutes 110.503
- Law: includes decisional and statutory law and rules and regulations having the force of law. See Oregon Statutes 110.503
- Obligor: means an individual, or the estate of a decedent, that:
(a) Owes or is alleged to owe a duty of support;
(b) Is alleged but has not been adjudicated to be a parent of a child;
(c) Is liable under a support order; or
(d) Is a debtor in a proceeding under ORS § 110. See Oregon Statutes 110.503
- Register: means to file in a tribunal of this state a support order or judgment determining parentage of a child issued in another state or a foreign country. See Oregon Statutes 110.503
- State: means a state of the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, any territory or insular possession under the jurisdiction of the United States or an Indian nation or tribe. See Oregon Statutes 110.503
- Support enforcement agency: means a public official, governmental entity or private agency authorized to:
(a) Seek enforcement of support orders or laws relating to the duty of support;
(b) Seek establishment or modification of child support;
(c) Request determination of parentage of a child;
(d) Attempt to locate obligors or their assets; or
(e) Request determination of the controlling child support order. See Oregon Statutes 110.503
- Support order: means a judgment, decree, order, decision or directive, whether temporary, final or subject to modification, issued in a state or foreign country for the benefit of a child, a spouse or a former spouse, that provides for monetary support, health care, arrearages, retroactive support or reimbursement for financial assistance provided to an individual obligee in place of child support. See Oregon Statutes 110.503
(2) 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. [2015 c.298 § 45]
REGISTRATION, ENFORCEMENT
AND MODIFICATION
OF SUPPORT ORDERS
(Registration for Enforcement of Support Order)