2023 Illinois Compiled Statutes › Chapter 750 - FAMILIES › 750 ILCS 22/ - Uniform Interstate Family Support Act. › Article 5 - Enforcement Of Support Order Without Registration

(750 ILCS 22/Art. 5 heading)
ARTICLE 5.  ENFORCEMENT OF SUPPORT ORDER
WITHOUT REGISTRATION
(Source: P.A. 99-119, eff. 1-1-16.)
(750 ILCS 22/501)
Sec. 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 State.
(Source: P.A. 93-479, eff. 1-1-04, operative 7-1-04.)
(750 ILCS 22/502)
Sec. 502. Employer's compliance with income-withholding order of another
state.
(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 this State.
(c) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (d) and Section 503,
the employer shall withhold and distribute the funds as directed in the
withholding order by complying with terms of the order which specify:
(1) the duration and amount of periodic payments of     current child-support, stated as a sum certain;
(2) the person designated to receive payments and the     address to which the payments are to be forwarded;
(3) medical support, whether in the form of periodic     cash payment, stated as a sum certain, or ordering the obligor to provide health insurance coverage for the child under a policy available through the obligor's employment;
(4) the amount of periodic payments of fees and costs     for a support enforcement agency, the issuing tribunal, and the obligee's attorney, stated as sums certain; and
(5) the amount of periodic payments of arrearages and     interest on arrearages, stated as sums certain.
(d) An employer shall comply with the law of the state of the obligor's
principal place of employment for withholding from income with respect to:
(1) the employer's fee for processing an     income-withholding order;
(2) the maximum amount permitted to be withheld from     the obligor's income; and
(3) the times within which the employer must     implement the withholding order and forward the child-support payment.
(Source: P.A. 99-119, eff. 1-1-16.)
(750 ILCS 22/503)
Sec. 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 two or more child-support 
obligees.
(Source: P.A. 99-119, eff. 1-1-16.)
(750 ILCS 22/504)
Sec. 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: P.A. 99-119, eff. 1-1-16.)
(750 ILCS 22/505)
Sec. 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: P.A. 99-119, eff. 1-1-16.)
(750 ILCS 22/506)
Sec. 506. Contest by obligor.
(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 this State by registering the order in a tribunal of this State
and filing a contest to that order as provided in Article 6, or otherwise
contesting the order in the same manner as if the order had been issued by a
tribunal of this State.
(b) The obligor shall give notice of the contest to:
(1) a support enforcement agency providing services     to the obligee;
(2) each employer that has directly received an     income-withholding order relating to the obligor; and
(3) the person designated to receive payments in the     income-withholding order or, if no person is designated, to the obligee.
(Source: P.A. 99-119, eff. 1-1-16.)
(750 ILCS 22/507)
Sec. 507. Administrative enforcement of orders.
(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 this State.
(b) Upon receipt of the documents, the support enforcement agency, without
initially seeking to register the order, shall consider and, if appropriate,
use any administrative procedure authorized by the law of this State to enforce
a support order or an income-withholding order, or both.  If the obligor does
not contest administrative enforcement, the order need not be registered.  If
the obligor contests the validity or administrative enforcement of the order,
the support enforcement agency shall register the order pursuant to this Act.
(Source: P.A. 99-119, eff. 1-1-16.)