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AK Stat § 25.27.022 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 25. Marital and Domestic Relations|Chapter 27. Child Support Services Agency|Sec. 25.27.022. Establishment and enforcement requests from other states.

(a) The agency may act, under the laws of this state, upon requests from similar state agencies in other states that operate child support enforcement programs under 42 U.S.C. 651 - 669 (Title IV-D Social Security Act) to establish or disestablish paternity and to establish and enforce against obligors within this state support obligations determined in other states. (b) Except for requests for assistance made under (c) of this section or AS 25.25.501, requests from child support enforcement agencies in other states shall be made by application containing the information that this state's agency requires and including written authorization from the requesting state agency and the obligee for this state's agency to initiate necessary action. (c) Requests from a child support agency of another state for assistance in enforcing support orders through high-volume automated administrative enforcement may be made by electronic or other means and must include the information required by 42 U.S.C. 666(a)(14). (d) An employer receiving an income withholding order from a child support agency of another state shall comply with the choice of law provisions of AS 25.25.502(d), 25.25.503, and 42 U.S.C. 666(b)(6)(A)(i)(V).
AK Stat § 25.27.025 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 25. Marital and Domestic Relations|Chapter 27. Child Support Services Agency|Sec. 25.27.025. Rate of interest.

The rate of interest imposed under AS 25.27.020(a)(2)(B) shall be six percent a year or a lesser rate that is the maximum rate of interest permitted to be imposed under federal law.
AK Stat § 25.27.030 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 25. Marital and Domestic Relations|Chapter 27. Child Support Services Agency|Sec. 25.27.030. Establishment of fund.

There is established in the state general fund a continuing, revolving, reserve account to receive collections and make the authorized disbursements of the agency.
AK Stat § 25.27.040 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 25. Marital and Domestic Relations|Chapter 27. Child Support Services Agency|Sec. 25.27.040. Determination of paternity.

(a) The agency may appear on behalf of minor children or their mother or legal custodian or the state and initiate efforts to have the paternity of children born out of wedlock determined by the court. When the agency is a party to a court action in which paternity is contested, it shall request and pay for genetic testing and procedures under AS 25.20.050(e) and may recover the costs of the testing as provided in AS 25.20.050(f). (b) The agency may not attempt to establish paternity in any case (1) involving incest or forcible rape, unless the mother of the child is legally competent and requests the establishment of paternity; in this paragraph, “forcible rape” means sexual assault in the first degree under AS 11.41.410 or a conviction under a law or ordinance from another jurisdiction with similar elements; “forcible rape” includes adjudications of delinquency for acts with elements similar to AS 11.41.410; (2) when legal proceedings for adoption are pending; or (3) when it would not be in the best interests of the children or the state. (c) When the agency is a party in a court action in which paternity is contested, the agency shall move for a default judgment in a case that meets the conditions specified in AS 25.20.050(g).
AK Stat § 25.27.045 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 25. Marital and Domestic Relations|Chapter 27. Child Support Services Agency|Sec. 25.27.045. Determination of support obligation.

The agency may appear in an action seeking an award of support on behalf of a child owed a duty of support, or to enforce a spousal support order if a spousal support obligation has been established and if a support obligation, established with respect to a child of that spouse, is also being administered, and may also appear in an action seeking modification of a support order, decree, or judgment already entered. Action under this section may be undertaken upon application of an obligee, or at the agency's own discretion if the obligor is liable to the state under AS 25.27.120(a) or (b).
AK Stat § 25.27.050 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 25. Marital and Domestic Relations|Chapter 27. Child Support Services Agency|Sec. 25.27.050. Legal assistance.

The agency shall contract with the Department of Law to provide needed legal services.
AK Stat § 25.27.061 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 25. Marital and Domestic Relations|Chapter 27. Child Support Services Agency|Sec. 25.27.061. Payment of support to 18-year-olds.

A judgment, court order, or order of the agency under this chapter that provides for child support to be paid for the care of an unmarried 18-year-old child who is actively pursuing a high school diploma or an equivalent level of technical or vocational training while living as a dependent with a parent, guardian, or designee of the parent or guardian, may provide for the support to be paid directly to the child upon terms and conditions considered appropriate by the court or agency.
AK Stat § 25.27.063 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 25. Marital and Domestic Relations|Chapter 27. Child Support Services Agency|Sec. 25.27.063. Medical support order.

(a) [Repealed, § 23 ch 106 SLA 2000.]  (b) If a parent who is required to provide health care coverage under a medical support order is eligible for family health coverage through an employer, the court or agency issuing the medical support order shall send a copy of the medical support order to the employer. If the agency has notice that the parent has changed or will be changing employment and is or will be eligible for family health coverage through the new employer, the agency shall send a copy of the medical support order to the new employer. (c) An employer who receives a copy of a medical support order under (b) of this section (1) shall allow the employee named in the order to enroll the child under the family coverage without regard to restrictions relating to enrollment periods if the child is otherwise eligible and is not already enrolled under the family coverage; (2) shall, if the employee fails to apply for enrollment of a child under (1) of this subsection, enroll the child under the employee's family coverage upon application by the child's other parent or custodian, the child support services agency, or the Department of Health and Social Services; (3) may not disenroll or eliminate coverage of the child while the employee is still employed by the employer unless the employer has eliminated family health coverage for all of its employees or has received written evidence that (A) the employee is no longer required by court order or administrative order to provide the child's insurance coverage; or (B) the child is or will be enrolled in comparable health coverage through another insurer that will take effect not later than the effective date of the disenrollment or elimination of coverage; and (4) shall withhold from the employee's compensation the employee's share, if any, of premiums for health coverage to the extent permitted under 15 U.S.C. 1673(b) (Consumer Credit Protection Act) and pay the withheld amount to the appropriate insurer; if federal regulations allow the employer to withhold less than the employee's share of the insurance premium, the employer may withhold the lesser amount and pay it to the appropriate insurer.
AK Stat § 25.27.065 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 25. Marital and Domestic Relations|Chapter 27. Child Support Services Agency|Sec. 25.27.065. Waiver of child support.

(a) A custodian of a child, including a custodial parent, owes a duty to that child to ensure that child support is paid by a noncustodial parent who is obligated to pay it. An agreement to waive past or future child support, made between an obligor and a person who is entitled to receive support on behalf of an obligee, is not enforceable unless (1) the agreement is put in writing at the time the agreement is made; and (2) the agreement is signed at the time it is made by both the obligor and the person acting for the obligee. (b) When the right to receive child support has been assigned to a governmental entity, an agreement under (a) of this section that has not been adopted as an administrative order of the agency is not effective during a period when the obligee is receiving assistance under AS 47.27. (c) In a separation, dissolution, or divorce proceeding, a court may not accept a waiver of support by a custodial parent without proof that the custodial parent can support the needs of the child adequately.
AK Stat § 25.27.070 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 25. Marital and Domestic Relations|Chapter 27. Child Support Services Agency|Sec. 25.27.070. Order to assign wages for support.

(a) In a proceeding in which the court has ordered either or both parents to pay for the support of a child, the court may, on its own motion or motion of a party or the agency on behalf of a party, after notice and an opportunity for hearing, order either parent or both parents to assign to the custodian of the child that portion of salary or wages of either parent due them currently and in the future sufficient to pay the amount ordered by the court for the support, maintenance, nurture, and education of the child. (b) The order of assignment is binding upon an employer upon service of a copy of the order upon the employer and until further order of the court. The employer may, for each payment made under the order, deduct $1 from other wages or salary owed to the employee. (c) The assignment made under court order has priority as against an attachment, execution, or other assignment unless otherwise ordered by the court. (d) An employer may not terminate an employee's employment because wages of the employee are subject to an order under this section.
AK Stat § 25.27.080 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 25. Marital and Domestic Relations|Chapter 27. Child Support Services Agency|Sec. 25.27.080. Enforcement of support orders.

(a) A court order requiring payment of child support shall be modified to order payments be made to the agency upon application. (b) The agency on behalf of the custodian or the state shall take all necessary action permitted by law to enforce child support orders, including petitioning the court for orders to aid in the enforcement of child support. (c) The determination or enforcement of a duty of support is unaffected by any interference by the custodian of the child with rights of custody or visitation granted by a court. When the agency appears on behalf of a child in an action seeking to establish or enforce support, the court may not adjudicate custody, visitation, or property rights in the same action. (d) An order of arrest may not be issued in the enforcement of child support unless the court has reason to believe that the obligor may flee the jurisdiction or unless the obligor has been ordered to appear in the action and has failed to do so.
AK Stat § 25.27.085 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 25. Marital and Domestic Relations|Chapter 27. Child Support Services Agency|Sec. 25.27.085. Subpoenas.

(a) The agency may subpoena persons, books, records, and documents to (1) obtain any financial or other information needed to establish, modify, or enforce a child support order; (2) determine the paternity of a child under AS 25.27.165; or (3) disestablish the paternity of a child under AS 25.27.166. (b) An administrative subpoena issued under this section shall be served in the manner provided for service of liens under AS 25.27.240. Proof of service may be completed according to Rule 5, Alaska Rules of Civil Procedure. (c) A person who is issued an administrative subpoena shall be provided an opportunity to refuse to comply with it for good cause by filing a request for a conference with the agency in this state in the manner and within the time specified in regulations adopted by the agency. Good cause shall be limited to mistake in identity of the person or to a prohibition under law to release such information. (d) After a conference requested under (c) of this section, the agency shall issue an order on the request relating to good cause. If the person continues to refuse to comply with the administrative subpoena, the agency in this state shall issue an order to impose a civil penalty of $10 for each day of noncompliance with the subpoena. (e) An order imposing a civil penalty under this section is a final administrative decision and may be appealed under AS 25.27.210. (f) This section does not limit the ability of the agency to make other lawful requests for information. (g) If a person fails to comply with a subpoena issued under this section, the agency may apply to the court for an order to compel obedience by proceedings for contempt as if the subpoena had been issued by a court.
AK Stat § 25.27.086 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 25. Marital and Domestic Relations|Chapter 27. Child Support Services Agency|Sec. 25.27.086. Subpoenas issued by agency of another state.

(a) If the child support enforcement agency of another state issues a subpoena regarding persons, books, records, or documents in this state, the subpoena must be complied with as if it were issued by this state's child support services agency if (1) the subpoena is for obtaining (A) financial or other information needed to establish, modify, or enforce a support order; or (B) information needed to determine or disestablish the paternity of a child under the laws of the state in which the subpoena was issued; and (2) the issuing agency complied with AS 25.27.085(b). (b) The procedures in or adopted under AS 25.27.085(c) and (d) apply to a person who is issued a subpoena described in (a) of this section. (c) The child support services agency of this state shall enforce a subpoena described in (a) of this section and shall provide the opportunity for conference and issue any order under AS 25.27.085(c) and (d) on behalf of the issuing agency. AS 25.27.085(e) applies to an order under this subsection. (d) The penalties provided in AS 25.27.085 apply regarding a subpoena described in (a) of this section. (e) Nothing in this section limits the ability of a child support enforcement agency of another state to make other lawful requests for information in this state.
AK Stat § 25.27.095 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 25. Marital and Domestic Relations|Chapter 27. Child Support Services Agency|Sec. 25.27.095. Agency exempt from execution.

Execution may not issue against money held in the fund established under AS 25.27.030.
AK Stat § 25.27.100 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 25. Marital and Domestic Relations|Chapter 27. Child Support Services Agency|Sec. 25.27.100. All persons may use agency.

(a) The agency shall provide aid to any person due child support under the laws of this state upon application. The agency may, by regulation, impose a fee for services provided under this chapter. (b) [Repealed, § 148 ch 87 SLA 1997.]
AK Stat § 25.27.103 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 25. Marital and Domestic Relations|Chapter 27. Child Support Services Agency|Sec. 25.27.103. Payments to agency.

An obligor shall make child support payments to the agency if the agency is enforcing a duty of child support under AS 25.25 or this chapter. The agency shall disburse that portion of a payment that exceeds the amount of money necessary to satisfy the obligor's immediate duty of support in accordance with state and federal requirements. The agency may characterize a support payment physically received by the agency through wage withholding during the last five business days of the month as having been received on the first day of the next calendar month if the agency determines that the payment was made in the course of regular wage withholding intended for the next calendar month. The agency shall credit money disbursed under this section toward satisfaction of the obligor's duty of support.
AK Stat § 25.27.105 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 25. Marital and Domestic Relations|Chapter 27. Child Support Services Agency|Sec. 25.27.105. Audit of collections.

Within 30 working days after receipt of a written request from an obligor, the obligor's legal representative, the obligee, or the obligee's legal representative, the agency shall provide an audit of all child support payments made by the obligor and received by the agency. The audit shall include the date and amount of each payment, the name of the obligee, and the total amount of arrearages of support past due and amount of unpaid penalties and interest imposed under AS 25.27.020(a)(2)(B). The agency is required to provide only one audit each year for each obligee and obligor under this section.
AK Stat § 25.27.107 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 25. Marital and Domestic Relations|Chapter 27. Child Support Services Agency|Sec. 25.27.107. Certification of arrears.

Within 30 days after receipt of a written request from an obligee or an obligee's personal representative, the agency shall provide the obligee with a document that certifies whether or not the obligor was, at the end of the most recent calendar year, (1) in arrears under the support order in an amount more than four times the monthly obligation under the order in cases where a payment schedule has not been established for payment of continuing support and accumulated arrears under the support order; or (2) in arrears under a payment schedule in an amount more than four times the monthly obligation under the payment schedule if a payment schedule has been established for payment of continuing support and accumulated arrears under the support order.
AK Stat § 25.27.120 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 25. Marital and Domestic Relations|Chapter 27. Child Support Services Agency|Sec. 25.27.120. Obligor liable for public assistance furnished obligee.

(a) An obligor is liable to the state in the amount of assistance granted under AS 47.07 and AS 47.27 to a child to whom the obligor owes a duty of support except that, if a support order has been entered, the liability of the obligor for assistance granted under AS 47.27 may not exceed the amount of support provided for in the support order, and, if a medical order of support has been entered, the liability of the obligor for assistance granted under AS 47.07 may not exceed the amount of support provided for in the medical order of support. (b) An obligor is liable to the state in the amount of the cost incurred if the state is maintaining a child to whom the obligor owes a duty of support in a foster home or institution, except that if a support order has been entered, or an agreement for payment of that cost executed between the obligor and the state, the liability of the obligor may not exceed the amount provided in the support order or agreement. (c) Within 30 days after the agency knows the identity and address of an obligor who resides in the state and who is liable to the state under this section, the agency shall send written notification by certified mail to the obligor and the obligee of the obligor's accruing liability and that the obligor shall make child support payments to the agency. The notice required under this subsection must be in clear, concise, and easily readable language. The notice may accompany other communications by the agency. (d) If the agency fails to comply with (c) of this section, interest does not accrue on the liability to the state unless a support order or medical support order, as applicable, has been entered. (e) The agency's failure to comply with (c) of this section does not bar an action by the state to recover amounts owed by the obligor.
AK Stat § 25.27.125 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 25. Marital and Domestic Relations|Chapter 27. Child Support Services Agency|Sec. 25.27.125. Accounting and disposition of federal receipts and agency collections.

(a) Federal incentive payments received by the state under 42 U.S.C. 658 shall be deposited in the general fund and the commissioner of administration shall separately account for the payments. The annual estimated balance in the account may be used by the legislature to make appropriations to the Department of Revenue to carry out the purposes of AS 25.27.020. (b) The annual estimated balance in the account maintained by the commissioner of administration under AS 37.05.142 may be used by the legislature to make appropriations to the Department of Health and Social Services to carry out the purposes of AS 47.14.100 - 47.14.130 and AS 47.27.
AK Stat § 25.27.130 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 25. Marital and Domestic Relations|Chapter 27. Child Support Services Agency|Sec. 25.27.130. Subrogation of state.

(a) If the obligor is liable to the state under AS 25.27.120(a) or (b), the state is subrogated to the rights of the obligee to (1) bring an action in the superior court seeking an order of support; (2) proceed under AS 25.27.160 - 25.27.270 to establish a duty of support; or (3) enforce by execution, in accordance with AS 25.27.230 - 25.27.270, or otherwise, a support order entered in favor of the obligee. (b) To establish or enforce an order of support, including, if applicable, a medical support order, based on the subrogation of the state, the agency is not limited to the amount of assistance being granted to the child. (c) The recovery of any amount for which the obligor is liable that exceeds the total assistance granted under AS 47.07 and AS 47.27 shall be paid to the obligee. (d) Except as provided in (f) of this section, if the obligee is not receiving assistance under AS 47.07 or AS 47.27 at the time the state recovers money in an action under this section, the recovery of any amount for which the obligor is liable shall be distributed to the obligee for support payments, including medical support payments, that have become due and unpaid since the termination of assistance under AS 47.07 or AS 47.27 under a support order in favor of the obligee. (e) After payment to the obligee under (d) of this section, the state may retain an amount not to exceed the total unreimbursed assistance paid on behalf of the obligee under AS 47.07 or AS 47.27. (f) Notwithstanding (d) of this section, the state shall, if required under federal law or regulations, distribute amounts recovered through offset of the obligor's federal tax refund as past due support with first distribution to the state for unpaid support assigned to the state under AS 47.07.025 and AS 47.27.040.
AK Stat § 25.27.135 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 25. Marital and Domestic Relations|Chapter 27. Child Support Services Agency|Sec. 25.27.135. Limitation on actions to establish child support obligation.

If the same causes of action concerning a duty of child support are pending concurrently in court and before the agency, the second action filed may be abated upon the motion of a party or the agency. The court or the agency may award full costs and attorney fees to the party prevailing on the abatement motion.
AK Stat § 25.27.140 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 25. Marital and Domestic Relations|Chapter 27. Child Support Services Agency|Sec. 25.27.140. Authority and procedures to administratively establish and enforce support obligation.

(a) If a support order has not been entered, the agency may establish paternity and a duty of support, which may include periodic payments of support, a medical support order, or both, utilizing the procedures prescribed in AS 25.27.160 - 25.27.220 and may enforce a duty of support utilizing the procedure prescribed in AS 25.27.230 - 25.27.270. Action under this subsection may be undertaken upon application of an obligee, or at the agency's own discretion if the obligor is liable to the state under AS 25.27.120(a) or (b). (b) If a support order has been entered, the agency may enforce the support order utilizing the procedures prescribed in AS 25.27.062, 25.27.150, and 25.27.230 - 25.27.270. (c) Unless the agency is establishing only a medical support order, a decision of the agency determining a duty of support shall include an income withholding order as provided under AS 25.27.062.