252B.1 Definitions. As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires: 1. “Absent parent” means the parent who either cannot be located or who is located and is not residing with the child at the time the support collection or paternity determination services provided in sections 252B.5 and 252B.6 are requested or commenced. 2. […]
252B.10 Criminal penalties. 1. Any person who willfully requests, obtains, or seeks to obtain paternity determination and support collection data available under section 252B.9 under false pretenses, or who willfully communicates or seeks to communicate such data to any agency or person except in accordance with this chapter, shall be guilty of an aggravated misdemeanor. […]
252B.11 Recovery of costs of collection services. The unit may initiate necessary civil proceedings to recover the unit’s costs of support collection services provided to an individual, whether or not the individual is a public assistance recipient, from an individual who owes and is able to pay a support obligation but willfully fails to pay […]
252B.12 Jurisdiction over nonresidents. In an action to establish paternity or to establish or enforce a child support obligation, or to modify a support order, a nonresident person is subject to the jurisdiction of the courts of this state as specified in section 252K.201. 84 Acts, ch 1242, §1; 97 Acts, ch 175, §48
252B.13A Collection services center. 1. The department shall establish within the unit a collection services center for the receipt and disbursement of support payments as defined in section 252D.16 or 598.1 as required for orders by section 252B.14. For purposes of this section, support payments do not include attorney fees, court costs, or property settlements. […]
252B.14 Support payments — collection services center or comparable government entity in another state — clerk of the district court. 1. For the purposes of this section, “support order” includes any order entered pursuant to chapter 234, 252A, 252C, 598, 600B, or any other support chapter or proceeding which establishes support payments as defined in […]
252B.15 Processing and disbursement of support payments. 1. The collection services center shall notify the clerk of the district court of any order for which the child support recovery unit is providing enforcement services. The clerk of the district court shall forward any support payment made pursuant to the order, along with any support payment […]
252B.16 Transfer of support order processing responsibilities — ongoing procedures. 1. For a support order being processed by the clerk of the district court, upon notification that the unit is providing enforcement services related to the order, the clerk of the district court shall immediately transfer the responsibility for the disbursement of support payments received […]
252B.17 Admissibility and identification of support payment records. Copies of support payment records maintained by the collection services center, when certified over the signature of a designated employee of the center, shall be considered to be satisfactorily identified and shall be admitted in any proceeding as prima facie evidence of the transactions. Additional proof of […]
252B.17A Imaging or photographic copies — originals destroyed. 1. If the unit, in the regular course of business or activity, has recorded or received any memorandum, writing, entry, print, document, representation, or combination thereof, of any act, transaction, occurrence, event, or communication from any source, and in the regular course of business has caused any […]
252B.18 Child support advisory committee — established — duties. Repealed by 2010 Acts, ch 1031, §393.
252B.2 Unit established — intervention. There is created within the department of human services a child support recovery unit for the purpose of providing the services required in sections 252B.3 through 252B.6. The unit is not required to intervene in actions to provide such services. [C77, 79, 81, §252B.2] 83 Acts, ch 96, §157, 159; […]
252B.20 Suspension of support — request by mutual consent. 1. If the unit is providing child support enforcement services pursuant to this chapter, the parents of a dependent child for whom support has been ordered pursuant to chapter 252A, 252C, 252F, 598, 600B, or any other chapter, may jointly request the assistance of the unit […]
252B.20A Suspension of support — request by one party. 1. If the unit is providing child support enforcement services pursuant to this chapter, the obligor who is ordered to pay support for the dependent child pursuant to chapter 252A, 252C, or 252F, may request the assistance of the unit in suspending the obligation for support […]
252B.21 Administrative seek employment orders. 1. For any support order being enforced by the unit, the unit may enter an ex parte order requiring the obligor to seek employment if employment of the obligor cannot be verified and if the obligor has failed to make support payments. Advance notice is not required prior to entering […]
252B.22 Liens — motor vehicle registration — task force. 1. The child support recovery unit created in this chapter shall establish a task force to assist in the development and implementation of all of the following: a. The filing of notices of liens and actions to release liens. b. The process for delaying the renewal […]
252B.23 Surcharge. 1. A surcharge shall be due and payable by the obligor on a support arrearage identified as difficult to collect and referred by the unit on or after January 1, 1998, to a collection entity under contract with the unit or other state entity. The amount of the surcharge shall be a percent […]
252B.24 State case registry. 1. Beginning October 1, 1998, the unit shall operate a state case registry to the extent determined by applicable time frames and other provisions of 42 U.S.C. §654a(e) and this section. The unit and the judicial branch shall enter into a cooperative agreement for the establishment and operation of the registry […]
252B.25 Contempt — combining actions. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, if an obligor has been ordered to provide support in more than one order, the unit may bring a single action for contempt to enforce the multiple orders. However, if the obligor objects to the consolidation of the actions regarding multiple orders […]
252B.26 Service of process. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, the unit may serve a petition, notice, or rule to show cause under this chapter or chapter 252A, 252C, 252F, 252H, 252K, 598, or 665 as specified in each chapter, or as follows: 1. The unit may serve a petition, notice, or rule […]
