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Home » US Law » 2022 Colorado Code » Title 14 - Domestic Matters » Article 5 - Uniform Interstate Family Support Act » Part 5 - Enforcement of Order of Another State Without Registration

§ 14-5-501. Employer’s Receipt of Income-Withholding Order of Another State

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 the income-withholding law of this state without first filing a petition or comparable pleading or registering the order with a tribunal of this […]

§ 14-5-502. Employer’s Compliance With Income-Withholding Order of Another State

Upon receipt of an income-withholding order, the obligor’s employer shall immediately provide a copy of the order to the obligor. 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 this state. Except as otherwise provided in subsection […]

§ 14-5-503. Employer’s Compliance With Two or More Income-Withholding Orders

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 […]

§ 14-5-504. Immunity From Civil Liability

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. Source: L. 97: Entire part amended with relocations, p. 540, § 11, effective July […]

§ 14-5-505. Penalties for Noncompliance

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 this state. Source: L. 97: Entire part amended with relocations, p. 540, § 11, effective July […]

§ 14-5-506. Contest by Obligor

An obligor may contest the validity or enforcement of an income-withholding order issued in another state and received directly by an employer in this state by registering the order in a tribunal of this state and filing a contest to that order as provided in part 6 of this article, or otherwise contesting the order […]

§ 14-5-507. Administrative Enforcement of Orders

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 this state. Upon receipt of the documents, the support enforcement agency, without initially […]