§ 364. Reduction or termination of income withholding
(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 […]
§ 365. Security requirement
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.
§ 366. Consumer reporting agency
(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 […]
§ 367. Income tax refund withholding to enforce support
(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 […]
§ 368. Child support payments as final judgments; prohibition against retroactive modification
(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 […]
§ 354. Hearing officer
(a) There shall be appointed by the Governor upon the recommendation of the Attorney General, one (1) or more hearing officers who are by reason of training, education, experience and such other criteria as may be established in writing by the Attorney General qualified to hear and render decisions in paternity and child support cases. […]
§ 355. Notice for income withholding or income tax refund withholding
(a) Upon whichever may first occur: (1) the day the obligor fails to make payments under a child support order or an order for child support in conjunction with spousal or former spousal support in an amount equal to the support payable for one (1) month, or (2) the day on which an obligor or […]
§ 356. Hearing
(a) If the obligor wishes to contest income withholding or income tax refund withholding, he or she must notify the Division and the Administration Hearing Office in writing within ten (10) days of the notice provided for in section 355 of this chapter. Failure to inform the Division within ten (10) days of the date […]
§ 357. Notice to employer
The Division shall send written notice, or, at the discretion of the Division, notice through electronic means, of income withholding to the obligor’s employer: (1) within 2 business days after the issuance of an order requiring immediate wage withholding pursuant to section 353(a) of this chapter or within 2 business days after the date of […]
§ 358. Employer’s obligations
An employer who receives a notice or order of income withholding as provided in section 357 of this chapter shall: (1) withhold from the obligor’s income the amount stated in section 357(2)(a) of this chapter; (2) send this amount to the Child Support Disbursement Unit according to section 357(2)(b) of this chapter; (3) continue to […]