Any employer that fails to withhold income in accordance with the provisions of a notice that is served on such employer pursuant to section 357 of this chapter is liable for the accumulated amount it should have withheld from the obligor’s income, and shall be fined not less than five hundred dollars ($500) but not […]
Any employer that is served with a notice issued pursuant to section 357 of this chapter for more than one (1) obligor may combine the withheld amount from all of its employees subject to such notices into a single payment to the Paternity and Child Support Division. The employer may issue a single certified check, […]
(a) The income withholding system established under this chapter shall include withholding from income derived in this territory where the applicable child support orders were issued in any of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico or any other territory or possession of the United States. (b) When a person […]
(a) When a support arrearage is paid in full, the Paternity and Child Support Division shall notify the obligor’s employer. The employer then shall reduce the amount of income withheld to cover only the current support obligation. (b) Once income withholding has been instituted it may be terminated only upon a motion by the obligor […]
The court or the hearing officer shall in appropriate cases require a person who has an arrearage or overdue support obligation and who has received the notice specified in section 355 of this chapter to give security, post a bond or give some other guarantee to secure the payment of overdue support.
(a) The Division shall report, on a quarterly basis, all child support obligors who are delinquent in the payment of child support, in an amount at least equal to the support payable for one month, to consumer reporting agencies doing business in the Virgin Islands. Any report to a consumer reporting agency shall at minimum […]
(a) An income tax refund payable by the Virgin Islands Bureau of Internal Revenue or the U.S. Treasury Department which is otherwise due to a support obligor shall be reduced by the amount of any overdue support obligation owed by the support obligor. (b) The amount by which the income tax refund is reduced shall […]
(a) Any payment or installment of support under any child support order, whether pursuant to a court order or pursuant to an order entered by a hearing officer, shall be a final judgment by operation of law, with the full force and effect of a judgment of the courts of the Virgin Islands, including the […]
(a) Every three years, all child support orders to which the Division is a party shall be subject to review, and if appropriate, adjustment, in accordance with a publicly available Review and Adjustment Plan established by the Division. The Review and Adjustment Plan shall take into account the best interests of children involved and shall […]
In establishing or enforcing any duty of support under this chapter, the court and the hearing officer shall give full faith and credit to all paternity determinations of any other state, territory of possession of the United States, Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, District of Columbia, or foreign jurisdiction that has been declared to have enacted […]
(a) The Division is designated as the central “State Case Registry” of child support cases in the Virgin Islands. The Division shall use its automated child support enforcement system, known as VIPERS, or any comparable automated system in order to maintain records of: (1) All Title IV-D support orders processed by the Division; and (2) […]
(a) The Division is designated as the central “State Disbursement Unit” for the collection and disbursement of all child support payments in the Virgin Islands. Effective on January 1, 1998, all child support obligations, and spousal support obligations ordered in conjunction with a child support obligation, whether established or modified by the Superior Court or […]
(a) In the event that a child support obligor either: (1) owes overdue child support in the amount of $2,500 or more; or (2) after receiving appropriate notice, fails to comply with subpoenas or warrants relating to paternity or child support proceedings; the Division may, on its own, if the child support action is processed […]
The Division, and any federal agency authorized to conduct Title IV-D child support enforcement activities, shall have access to any system used by any Virgin Islands government agency or entity to locate an individual for purposes relating to motor vehicles or law enforcement, including, but not limited to the National Law Enforcement Telecommunications System (NLETS) […]
In order to facilitate the location of, and enforcement actions against, child support obligors, Virgin Islands government agencies which issue the following licenses, or which maintain records concerning the following matters, shall develop appropriate policies and procedures to ensure that applications for such licenses, or records pertaining to such matters, contain the Social Security number […]
(a) In any case of child support, or spousal support ordered in connection with child support, enforced by the Division, in which overdue support is owed by the obligor who resides or owns property in the Virgin Islands, and notwithstanding any law to the contrary, a lien shall arise by operation of law against all […]
(a) The Division is hereby authorized and directed to enter into agreements with financial institutions doing business in the Virgin Islands to develop and operate, in coordination with such financial institutions, a data match system, using automated data exchanges to the maximum extent feasible, in which each such financial institution is required to provide, on […]
(a) An employer who hires or rehires an employee shall send the Department of Labor, not later than 20 days after the date the employer hires or rehires the employee, or on a semimonthly basis of not less than 12 days nor more than 16 days apart if reporting electronically or magnetically, the following information: […]
