An income-withholding order issued in another state may be sent by or on behalf of the obligee, or by the support enforcement agency, to the person defined as the obligor’s employer under chapter 13, subchapter I of this title without first filing a petition or comparable pleading or registering the order with a tribunal of […]
(a) Upon receipt of an income-withholding order, the obligor’s employer shall immediately provide a copy of the order to the obligor. (b) The employer shall treat an income-withholding order issued in another state which appears regular on its face as if it had been issued by a tribunal of the Virgin Islands. (c) Except as […]
If an obligor’s employer receives two or more income-withholding orders with respect to the earnings of the same obligor, the employer satisfies the terms of the orders if the employer complies with the law of the state of the obligor’s principal place of employment to establish the priorities for withholding and allocating income withheld for […]
An employer that complies with an income-withholding order issued in another state in accordance with this article is not subject to civil liability to an individual or agency with regard to the employer’s withholding of child support from the obligor’s income.
An employer that willfully fails to comply with an income-withholding order issued in another state and received for enforcement is subject to the same penalties that may be imposed for noncompliance with an order issued by a tribunal of the Virgin Islands.
(a) An obligor may contest the validity or enforcement of an income-withholding order issued in another state and received directly by an employer in the Virgin Islands by registering the order in a tribunal of the Virgin Islands and filing a contest to that order as provided in Article F, or otherwise contesting the order […]
(a) 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 the Virgin Islands. (b) Upon receipt of the documents, the support enforcement […]
