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Ohio Rev Code § 3121.36 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 31 | Domestic Relations-Children|Chapter 3121 | Collection and Disbursement of Child Support|Section 3121.36 | Authority to Collect Arrearage After Termination of Order.

Effective: March 28, 2019|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 366 - 132nd General Assembly|The termination of a court support order or administrative child support order does not abate the power of any court or child support enforcement agency to collect any overdue and unpaid support or arrearage owed under the terminated support order or the power of the court to punish any person for a failure to comply with, or to pay any support as ordered in, the terminated support order. The termination does not abate the authority of the court or agency to issue any notice described in section 3121.03 of the Revised Code or to issue any applicable order as described in division (C) or (D) of section 3121.03 of the Revised Code to collect any overdue and unpaid support or arrearage owed under the terminated support order. If a notice is issued pursuant to section 3121.03 of the Revised Code to collect the overdue and unpaid support or arrearage, the amount withheld or deducted from the obligor's personal earnings, income, or accounts shall be rebuttably presumed to be at least equal to the amount that was withheld or deducted under the terminated child support order. A court or agency administering the child support order may consider evidence of household expenditures, income variables, extraordinary health care issues, and other reasons for deviation from the presumed amount.
Ohio Rev Code § 3121.37 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 31 | Domestic Relations-Children|Chapter 3121 | Collection and Disbursement of Child Support|Section 3121.37 | Contempt for Failure to Comply With Administrative Order.

Effective: March 22, 2001|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 180 - 123rd General Assembly|If an obligor or any other person fails to comply with an administrative child support order, the agency that issued the order may request that the juvenile court or other court with jurisdiction under section 2101.022 or 2301.03 of the Revised Code of the county in which the agency is located find the obligor or other person in contempt pursuant to section 2705.02 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev Code § 3121.371 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 31 | Domestic Relations-Children|Chapter 3121 | Collection and Disbursement of Child Support|Section 3121.371 | Contempt for Failure to Comply With Withholding Order.

Effective: March 22, 2001|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 180 - 123rd General Assembly|If a child support enforcement agency sends a notice imposing a withholding or deduction requirement or any other appropriate requirement to a person described in section 3121.03 of the Revised Code and the payor or financial institution sent the withholding, deduction, or other appropriate notice fails to comply with the notice, the agency shall request that the court issue a court order requiring the payor or financial institution to comply immediately with the notice or be held in contempt of court. If the court issues the order and the payor or financial institution does not immediately comply with the notice, it is in contempt of court.
Ohio Rev Code § 3121.372 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 31 | Domestic Relations-Children|Chapter 3121 | Collection and Disbursement of Child Support|Section 3121.372 | Contempt for Failure to Send Notice.

Effective: March 22, 2001|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 180 - 123rd General Assembly|The failure of a person to send any notice required by section 3121.03, 3121.036, 3121.05, 3121.06, or 3121.12 of the Revised Code shall be considered contempt of court.
Ohio Rev Code § 3121.373 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 31 | Domestic Relations-Children|Chapter 3121 | Collection and Disbursement of Child Support|Section 3121.373 | Hearing - Notice.

Effective: May 18, 2005|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 493 - 125th General Assembly|(A) As used in this section, "willfully" means voluntarily and intentionally with a specific intent to take an action or fail to take an action.(B) When a child support enforcement agency seeks an order for contempt pursuant to section 3121.371 of the Revised Code against a payor that is an employer, the court may, on motion of the agency or on the court's own motion, hold a hearing to determine whether the payor has done either of the following:(1) Willfully failed to comply with a withholding notice issued pursuant to section 3121.03 of the Revised Code;(2) Failed three times within twelve consecutive months to comply with a withholding notice issued pursuant to section 3121.03 of the Revised Code.(C) Not later than fourteen days before holding a hearing under division (B) of this section, the court shall serve notice on the payor that complies with court rules regarding service of summonses. The notice must contain all of the following:(1) The date, time, and location of the hearing;(2) A statement that if the court determines the payor has committed acts or omissions described in division (B) of this section, the court may order either or both of the penalties set forth in section 3121.382 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev Code § 3121.38 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 31 | Domestic Relations-Children|Chapter 3121 | Collection and Disbursement of Child Support|Section 3121.38 | Liability of Payor or Financial Institution.

Effective: May 18, 2005|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 493 - 125th General Assembly|A payor that fails to withhold an amount from an obligor's income for support in accordance with a withholding requirement included in a withholding notice issued under section 3121.03 of the Revised Code or a financial institution that fails to deduct funds from an obligor's account for support in accordance with a deduction requirement included in a deduction notice issued under section 3121.03 of the Revised Code is liable for the amount that was not withheld or deducted, except that a payor that is an employer whose normal pay and disbursement cycles make it impossible to comply with a withholding requirement contained in a withholding notice shall not be liable for the amount not withheld if the employer, as soon as possible after receipt of the withholding notice, provides the court or child support enforcement agency that issued the notice with written notice of the impossibility and the reasons for the impossibility.A payor who is liable under this provision for an amount that was not withheld shall be ordered by the court to pay that amount to the office of child support in the department of job and family services, to be disbursed in accordance with the support order for the benefit of the child or spouse.
Ohio Rev Code § 3121.381 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 31 | Domestic Relations-Children|Chapter 3121 | Collection and Disbursement of Child Support|Section 3121.381 | Fining Noncomplying Payor or Financial Institution.

Effective: March 22, 2001|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 180 - 123rd General Assembly|A court may fine a payor not more than two hundred dollars for failure to withhold income, as required under a withholding notice issued under section 3121.03 of the Revised Code, under a court support order or to notify the court or child support enforcement agency administering the court support order that a situation has occurred causing the payor to cease paying income in an amount sufficient to comply with the order to the obligor, or, in cases in which the obligor is an employer, the obligor is receiving or is eligible to receive a benefit of employment other than personal earnings.The court may fine a financial institution not more than two hundred dollars for failure to deduct funds, as required by a deduction notice issued under section 3121.03 of the Revised Code, from an account under a court support order or to notify the court or child support enforcement agency administering the court support order of the termination of an account from which funds are being deducted or of the opening of a new account.
Ohio Rev Code § 3121.382 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 31 | Domestic Relations-Children|Chapter 3121 | Collection and Disbursement of Child Support|Section 3121.382 | Issuing Order Upon Finding of Willful Failure to Comply With Withholding Notice.

Effective: May 18, 2005|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 493 - 125th General Assembly|(A) As used in this section, "willfully" means voluntarily and intentionally with a specific intent to take an action or fail to take an action.(B) If, after a hearing conducted pursuant to section 3121.373 of the Revised Code, the court determines that a payor that is an employer has willfully failed to comply with a withholding notice issued pursuant to section 3121.03 of the Revised Code, or has failed three times within twelve consecutive months to comply with a withholding notice, the court may issue an order requiring one or both of the following:(1) The payment of support by electronic transfer of funds from the bank account of the payor;(2) A civil penalty, in addition to any other penalty permitted by law, of up to fifty per cent of the amount not withheld from the obligor's income or not timely forwarded to the office of child support in accordance with the withholding notice.
Ohio Rev Code § 3121.39 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 31 | Domestic Relations-Children|Chapter 3121 | Collection and Disbursement of Child Support|Section 3121.39 | Employer Not to Take Adverse Action Against Employee Subject to Child Support Withholding.

Effective: March 22, 2001|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 180 - 123rd General Assembly|No payor that is an employer may use a requirement to withhold personal earnings contained in a withholding notice issued under section 3121.03 of the Revised Code as a basis for a discharge of, or for any disciplinary action against, an employee, or as a basis for a refusal to employ a person.
Ohio Rev Code § 3121.43 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 31 | Domestic Relations-Children|Chapter 3121 | Collection and Disbursement of Child Support|Section 3121.43 | Duties of Office of Child Support.

Effective: March 22, 2001|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 180 - 123rd General Assembly|Except as provided in sections 3125.27 to 3125.30 of the Revised Code, the office of child support in the department of job and family services shall be the sole agency of the state responsible for the collection of all support payments due under support orders and the disbursement of the payments to obligees. The office shall make collections and disbursements in compliance with section 5107.20 of the Revised Code and rules adopted pursuant to section 3121.71 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev Code § 3121.44 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 31 | Domestic Relations-Children|Chapter 3121 | Collection and Disbursement of Child Support|Section 3121.44 | Support Payments to Be Made to Office of Child Support.

Effective: March 22, 2001|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 180 - 123rd General Assembly|On issuing or modifying a support order, issuing any withholding or deduction notice described in section 3121.03 of the Revised Code, or issuing an order described in division (C) or (D) of that section, the court or child support enforcement agency shall require that support payments be made to the office of child support in the department of job and family services as trustee for remittance to the person entitled to receive payments, except as otherwise provided in sections 2151.49, 3113.07, and 3125.27 to 3125.30 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev Code § 3121.441 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 31 | Domestic Relations-Children|Chapter 3121 | Collection and Disbursement of Child Support|Section 3121.441 | Direct Spousal Support Payments.

Effective: September 29, 2013|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 59 - 130th General Assembly|(A) Notwithstanding the provisions of this chapter, Chapters 3119., 3123., and 3125., and sections 3770.071 and 5107.20 of the Revised Code providing for the office of child support in the department of job and family services to collect, withhold, or deduct spousal support, when a court pursuant to section 3105.18 or 3105.65 of the Revised Code issues or modifies an order requiring an obligor to pay spousal support or grants or modifies a decree of dissolution of marriage incorporating a separation agreement that provides for spousal support, or at any time after the issuance, granting, or modification of an order or decree of that type, the court may permit the obligor to make the spousal support payments directly to the obligee instead of to the office if the obligee and the obligor have no minor children born as a result of their marriage and the obligee has not assigned the spousal support amounts to the department pursuant to section 5107.20 or 5160.38 of the Revised Code. (B) A court that permits an obligor to make spousal support payments directly to the obligee pursuant to division (A) of this section shall order the obligor to make the spousal support payments as a check, as a money order, or in any other form that establishes a clear record of payment.(C) If a court permits an obligor to make spousal support payments directly to an obligee pursuant to division (A) of this section and the obligor is in default in making any spousal support payment to the obligee, the court, upon motion of the obligee or on its own motion, may rescind the permission granted under that division. After the rescission, the court shall determine the amount of arrearages in the spousal support payments and order the obligor to make to the office of child support in the department of job and family services any spousal support payments that are in arrears and any future spousal support payments. Upon the issuance of the order of the court under this division, the provisions of this chapter, Chapters 3119., 3123., and 3125., and sections 3770.071 and 5107.20 of the Revised Code apply with respect to the collection, withholding, or deduction of the obligor's spousal support payments that are the subject of that order of the court.
Ohio Rev Code § 3121.45 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 31 | Domestic Relations-Children|Chapter 3121 | Collection and Disbursement of Child Support|Section 3121.45 | Payments Deemed to Be Gifts.

Effective: March 22, 2001|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 180 - 123rd General Assembly|Any payment of money by the person responsible for the support payments under a support order to the person entitled to receive the support payments that is not made to the office of child support, or to the child support enforcement agency administering the support order under sections 3125.27 to 3125.30 of the Revised Code, shall not be considered a payment of support under the support order and, unless the payment is made to discharge an obligation other than support, shall be deemed to be a gift.
Ohio Rev Code § 3121.46 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 31 | Domestic Relations-Children|Chapter 3121 | Collection and Disbursement of Child Support|Section 3121.46 | Order for Payments to Third Person.

Effective: March 22, 2001|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 180 - 123rd General Assembly|(A) When a support order is issued or modified, a withholding or deduction notice described in section 3121.03 of the Revised Code is issued, or an order described in division (C) or (D) of section 3121.03 of the Revised Code is issued, or at any time after the support order is issued or modified, the court may order the office of child support, or the child support enforcement agency may issue an order requiring the office, to transmit the payments or make them payable to any third person that is either agreed upon by the parties and approved by the court or appointed by the court, with respect to a support order, or is either agreed upon by the parties and approved by the agency or appointed by the agency, with respect to an administrative child support order. Third persons include, but are not limited to, a trustee, a custodian, the guardian of the estate of the child, the county department of job and family services, public children services agency, or any appropriate social agency.(B) Any person named pursuant to this section is entitled to receive the support payments. The court may allow the person to receive a reasonable fee for services rendered pursuant to this section. The person shall make financial reports in connection with these services at the time and in the manner prescribed by the court or as required by law.
Ohio Rev Code § 3121.47 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 31 | Domestic Relations-Children|Chapter 3121 | Collection and Disbursement of Child Support|Section 3121.47 | Application to Child Support Enforcement Agency for Administration of Order.

Effective: March 22, 2001|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 180 - 123rd General Assembly|Any person entitled to receive support payments either personally or on behalf of another person, by reason of any support order that does not direct that payments be made to the office of child support, may apply to the appropriate child support enforcement agency for the administration of the order. On receipt of the application, the agency has authority to administer the order. The agency shall notify the obligor by any method of service authorized under the Civil Rules to make all support payments due after service of the notice on the obligor to the office. An obligor so notified by an agency shall make all subsequent payments to the office unless the court, on the obligor's application filed within thirty days after service of the notice on the obligor, orders the child support enforcement agency not to administer the support order.
Ohio Rev Code § 3121.48 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 31 | Domestic Relations-Children|Chapter 3121 | Collection and Disbursement of Child Support|Section 3121.48 | Separate Account for Support Payments Received as Trustee.

Effective: September 29, 2011|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 153 - 129th General Assembly|The office of child support shall administer a fund for the deposit of support payments it receives as trustee for remittance to the persons entitled to receive the support payments. The fund shall be in the custody of the treasurer of state, but shall not be part of the state treasury.
Ohio Rev Code § 3121.49 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 31 | Domestic Relations-Children|Chapter 3121 | Collection and Disbursement of Child Support|Section 3121.49 | Retention of Interest.

Effective: March 22, 2001|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 180 - 123rd General Assembly|The office of child support shall retain, and use solely for support enforcement activities, all interest earned on moneys in any support payment account it maintains.
Ohio Rev Code § 3121.50 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 31 | Domestic Relations-Children|Chapter 3121 | Collection and Disbursement of Child Support|Section 3121.50 | Distributing Amount Forwarded to Obligee.

Effective: October 1, 2005|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 66 - 126th General Assembly|On receipt of any amount forwarded from a payor or financial institution, the office of child support shall distribute the amount to the obligee within two business days of its receipt of the amount forwarded. Unless otherwise prohibited from doing so by a law of this state or the United States, the office may distribute the amount by means of electronic disbursement, and the obligee shall accept payment by means of electronic disbursement. The director of job and family services may adopt, revise, or amend rules under Chapter 119. of the Revised Code to assist in the implementation of this section.
Ohio Rev Code § 3121.51 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 31 | Domestic Relations-Children|Chapter 3121 | Collection and Disbursement of Child Support|Section 3121.51 | Administering Orders on Monthly Basis.

Effective: March 22, 2001|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 180 - 123rd General Assembly|A child support enforcement agency shall administer all support orders on a monthly basis.
Ohio Rev Code § 3121.52 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 31 | Domestic Relations-Children|Chapter 3121 | Collection and Disbursement of Child Support|Section 3121.52 | Calculating Monthly Amount Due Where Payments Made on Other Basis.

Effective: March 22, 2001|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 180 - 123rd General Assembly|A court or child support enforcement agency that issues or modifies a support order with support payments to be made other than on a monthly basis shall calculate a monthly amount due under the order, for purposes of its monthly administration, in the following manner:(A) If the support order is to be paid weekly, multiply the weekly amount of support due under the order by fifty-two and divide the resulting annual amount by twelve;(B) If the support order is to be paid biweekly, multiply the biweekly amount of support due under the order by twenty-six and divide the resulting annual amount by twelve;(C) If the support order is to be paid periodically but is not to be paid weekly, biweekly, or monthly, multiply the periodic amount of support due by an appropriate number to obtain the annual amount of support due under the order and divide the annual amount of support due by twelve.
Ohio Rev Code § 3121.53 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 31 | Domestic Relations-Children|Chapter 3121 | Collection and Disbursement of Child Support|Section 3121.53 | Payments Made on Other Basis Not to Affect the Frequency or the Amount of the Support Payments.

Effective: March 22, 2001|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 180 - 123rd General Assembly|If the payments under a support order are to be made other than on a monthly basis, the required monthly administration of the order by a child support enforcement agency shall not affect the frequency or the amount of the support payments to be made under the order.
Ohio Rev Code § 3121.54 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 31 | Domestic Relations-Children|Chapter 3121 | Collection and Disbursement of Child Support|Section 3121.54 | Payment of Support Commencing on Day Other Than First Day of Month.

Effective: March 22, 2001|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 180 - 123rd General Assembly|With respect to support orders that require payment of support to commence on a day other than the first day of a month, the child support enforcement agency, for purposes of monthly administration, shall compute a pro rata amount due under the order for the first month of the period of payment, in the following manner:(A) Determine an annual amount under section 3121.52 of the Revised Code;(B) Divide the annual amount by one of the following to obtain the daily rate:(1) If payment of support is required to commence in a leap year, three hundred sixty-six;(2) If payment of support is required to commence in a year that is not a leap year, three hundred sixty-five.(C) Multiply the daily rate by the number of days the order is in effect in the first month, including the date payment of support is required to commence and the last day of the first month.
Ohio Rev Code § 3121.56 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 31 | Domestic Relations-Children|Chapter 3121 | Collection and Disbursement of Child Support|Section 3121.56 | Collecting Administrative Charge.

Effective: March 22, 2001|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 180 - 123rd General Assembly|The office of child support shall collect the administrative charge imposed on the obligor under the support order pursuant to section 3119.27 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev Code § 3121.57 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 31 | Domestic Relations-Children|Chapter 3121 | Collection and Disbursement of Child Support|Section 3121.57 | Applying Administrative Charge.

Effective: March 22, 2001|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 180 - 123rd General Assembly|The office of child support is not required to apply an administrative charge included with a payment for current support payment toward any arrearages under the support order.