West Virginia Code 48-14-603 – Enforcing support orders through automated administrative enforcement
(a) The Bureau for Child Support enforcement may, by electronic or other means, transmit to, or receive from, another state a request for assistance in enforcing support orders through automated administrative enforcement. Such request shall include:
Terms Used In West Virginia Code 48-14-603
- Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
- Assisting state: means a state which matches the requesting state'. See West Virginia Code 48-14-601
- Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
- Requesting state: means a state transmitting a request for administrative enforcement to another state. See West Virginia Code 48-14-601
- State: means a state of the United States, or the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, or any territory or insular possession subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. See West Virginia Code 48-14-601
(1) Information as will enable the assisting state to compare the information about the cases to the information in the databases of the state;
(2) All supporting documentation necessary under the laws of this state to support an attachment of the asset or assets, should such assets be located; and
(3) Said transmittal shall constitute a certification by the requesting state:
(A) Of the amount of past-due support owed; and
(B) That the requesting state has complied with all procedural due process requirements applicable to each case.
(b) A requesting state may transmit to an assisting state either:
(1) A request to locate and seize assets; or
(2) A request to seize an asset already identified by the requesting state.