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Timestamp: 2014-07-22 22:32:48
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Matched Legal Cases: ['§ 654', '§ 36', '§ 36', '§ 36', '§ 12', '§ 36', '§ 32', '§ 23', '§ 16']

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36-5-901. Liens for child support arrearages. (a) (1) In any case of child or spousal support enforced by the department of human services or its contractors under Title IV-D of the Social Security Act in which overdue support is owed by an obligor who resides or owns property in this state, a lien shall arise by operation of law against all real and personal property, tangible or intangible, then owned or subsequently acquired by the obligor against whom the lien arises for the amounts of overdue support owed or the amount of penalties, costs or fees as provided in this chapter. The personal or real property, tangible or intangible, of the obligor that is subjected to the lien required by this part shall include all existing property at the time of the lien's perfection, or acquired thereafter, even if a prior order for overdue support or arrears only specifies a certain amount of overdue support or arrears that was owed by the obligor at the time of such order.
(2) �Overdue support� is defined, for purposes of this part, as any occasion on which the full amount of ordered support for or on behalf of a minor child, or for a spouse or former spouse of the obligor with whom the child is living to the extent spousal support would be included for the purposes of 42 U.S.C. § 654(4), is not paid by the due date for arrears as defined in § 36-5-101(f)(1) unless an income assignment is in effect and the payer of income is paying pursuant to § 36-5-101(g). �Overdue support� shall include all amounts of support that are in arrears as defined in § 36-5-101(f)(1) and that remain unpaid by the obligor at the time the lien is perfected or that become due as arrears subsequent to the perfection of the lien.
(B) In the alternative, the department may, upon agreement by the secretary of state, develop a central site for recordation of all notices of liens on all property, real or personal, that would be subject to the lien provisions of this part and the department and the secretary of state shall have authority to promulgate any rules necessary pursuant to the provisions of the Uniform Administrative Procedures Act compiled in title 4, chapter 5, to implement such central recordation site.
(F) Prior to the implementation of the provisions of this subdivision (b)(3), the department shall promulgate rules establishing procedures for the use of the automated system and shall, in addition to the other requirements of the Uniform Administrative Procedures Act, compiled in title 4, chapter 5, for notice, provide specific notice to the state clerks of court conference, registers of deeds, and the Tennessee Bar Association.
(d) (1) Nothing in this section shall be interpreted to give the department priority over any deed of trust or any security interest perfected under the Uniform Commercial Code prior to the filing of the notice of the department's child support lien, irrespective of when such child support lien arises. �Filing� for purposes of this subsection (d) shall mean that the department has recorded its notice of lien pursuant to the provisions of subsection (b) by filing a document to record its notice of lien in the appropriate office for such recordation or that it has effectively recorded its lien pursuant to the automated recordation method permitted by subdivision (b)(3).
Acts 1997, ch. 551, § 12; 1998, ch. 1098, § 36; 2000, ch. 846, § 32; 2000, ch. 922, § 23; 2001, ch. 447, §§ 16, 17.