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...A child support enforcement agency may submit the name of a delinquent obligor to the office of child support for inclusion on a poster only if all of the following apply: (A) The obligor is subject to a support order and there has been an attempt to enforce the order through a public notice, a wage withholding order, a lien on property, a financial institution deduction order, or other court-ordered procedure...

...When a child support enforcement agency submits the name of an obligor to the office of child support under section 3123.951 of the Revised Code, it also shall submit the photograph and information described in division (H) of section 3123.952 of the Revised Code.

...A child support enforcement agency shall not submit to the office of child support the address of the obligee or any other personal information about the obligee when the agency submits the name of the obligor under section 3123.951 of the Revised Code.

...A child support enforcement agency shall determine whether any obligor whose name was submitted to be displayed on a poster has met all the conditions of section 3123.956 of the Revised Code. If it determines that an obligor has done so, it shall give the office of child support notice of its determination. On receipt of the notice from the agency, the office shall remove the obligor from the list of obligors submitt...

...The office of child support shall send notice to each obligor whose name was submitted to be displayed on the poster created by the office. The notice shall be sent by regular mail to the obligor's last known address and shall state that the obligor may avoid being included on the poster by doing all of the following within ninety days after receipt of the notice: (A) Make a payment to the office of child support or...

...Each poster created by the office of child support shall display photographs of, and information about, ten obligors who are liable for support arrearages and whose whereabouts are unknown to child support enforcement agencies. Each poster shall list a toll-free telephone number for the office that may be called to report information regarding the whereabouts of any of the obligors displayed on a poster. The office m...

...The office of child support may publish and distribute a set of posters throughout the state annually.

...The office of child support shall use funds appropriated by the general assembly for child support administration to conduct the poster program under sections 3123.95 to 3123.9510 of the Revised Code.

...wing the names of obligors submitted by child support enforcement agencies to be displayed on a poster and in selecting the delinquent obligors to be included on a poster; (B) Procedures for providing the notice specified in section 3123.956 of the Revised Code; (C) Any other procedures necessary for the operation of the poster program.

...A child support enforcement agency may establish a program to increase child support collections by publishing and distributing a series of posters displaying child support obligors who are delinquent in their support payments.

...nd whose whereabouts are unknown to the child support enforcement agency. Each poster shall list a toll-free telephone number that may be called to report information regarding the whereabouts of any of the obligors displayed on the poster. The agency may include any other information on the poster that it considers appropriate.

...A child support enforcement agency shall select obligors for inclusion on a poster from obligors that meet the criteria in section 3123.952 of the Revised Code. The agency shall send notice to each obligor whose name is being considered for display on a poster. The notice shall be sent by regular mail to the obligor's last known address and shall include the information specified in section 3123.956 of the Revised Co...

...Whoever violates section 3123.20 of the Revised Code shall be fined not less than fifty nor more than two hundred dollars and imprisoned not less than ten nor more than thirty days.

... IV-D case" means any case in which the child support enforcement agency is enforcing the child support order pursuant to Title IV-D of the "Social Security Act," 88 Stat. 2351 (1975), 42 U.S.C. 651, as amended.

...The office of child support is hereby created in the department of job and family services.

...The office of child support shall establish and administer a program of child support enforcement that meets the requirements of Title IV-D of the "Social Security Act," 88 Stat. 2351 (1975), 42 U.S.C. 651, as amended, and any rules adopted under Title IV-D. The program of child support enforcement shall include the location of absent parents, establishment of parentage, establishment and modification of child suppo...

...s to establish parentage, the office of child support shall develop a program to publicize the state procedures for establishing the existence of a parent and child relationship and the advantages of establishing such a relationship. The office may require any board, commission, or agency of the state to participate in the publicity program.

...The office of child support shall establish, by rule adopted pursuant to Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, a program of spousal support enforcement in conjunction with child support enforcement. The program shall conform, to the extent practicable, to the program for child support enforcement established pursuant to section 3125.03 of the Revised Code.

...the whereabouts of any absent parent or child in order to enforce a law with respect to the unlawful taking or restraint of a child; (B) Making or enforcing a determination as to the allocation, between the parents of a child, of the parental rights and responsibilities for the care of a child and the designation of the residential parent and legal custodian of a child or otherwise as to the custody of a child; (C)...

... amended, to support the enforcement of child support that shall be implemented in every county. Every county shall accept the automated system and, in accordance with the written instructions of the department for the implementation of the automated system, shall convert to the automated system all records that are maintained by any county entity and that are related to any case for which a local agency is enforcing...

...The director of job and family services shall adopt rules pursuant to Chapter 119. of the Revised Code concerning access to, and use of, data maintained in the automated system established pursuant to section 3125.07 of the Revised Code that do the following: (A) Permit access to and use of data only to the extent necessary to carry out programs under Title IV-D of the "Social Security Act," 88 Stat. 2351 (1975), 42...

...Each county shall have a child support enforcement agency. A government entity designated under former section 2301.35 of the Revised Code prior to October 1, 1997, or a private or government entity designated under section 307.981 of the Revised Code on or after that date may serve as a county's child support enforcement agency.

...The child support enforcement agency for a county is the local Title IV-D agency for the county and shall operate a program for support enforcement in the county that complies with Title IV-D of the "Social Security Act," 88 Stat. 2351 (1975), 42 U.S.C. 651, as amended, any rules adopted pursuant to that title, and state law. Each child support enforcement agency shall be be responsible in the county it serves for ...

...Each child support enforcement agency shall enter into a plan of cooperation with the board of county commissioners under section 307.983 of the Revised Code and comply with each grant agreement the board enters into under sections 307.98 and 5101.21 and contracts the board enters into under sections 307.981 and 307.982 of the Revised Code that affect the agency.

...Each child support enforcement agency may enter into contracts with public agencies and private vendors for assistance in establishing paternity or support obligations, or for the performance of other administrative duties of the agency. Each child support enforcement agency may contract with a collection agent for the collection of arrearages owed under child support orders being administered by the agency. If the d...

...The issuance of a withholding notice in accordance with section 3123.021 of the Revised Code does not affect the obligor's right to contest pursuant to sections 3123.04 and 3123.05 of the Revised Code an identification of default or the amount of arrearages identified under the default. The timely filing of a written request or motion for an administrative or court hearing under section 3123.04 or 3123.05 of the Rev...

...t under a support order, the office of child support in the department of job and family services shall send a default notice to the obligor. The default notice shall include a summary of the actions that may be taken against the obligor if the court or agency makes a final and enforceable determination that the obligor is in default. If the location of the obligor is unknown at the time of the identification ...

...lt will be added to the obligor's total child support obligation and will be subject to collection efforts without further default notice; (E) A statement of the types of withholding or deduction requirements and related notices described in section 3121.03 of the Revised Code or the types of court orders described in sections 3121.03, 3121.04 to 3121.08, and 3121.12 of the Revised Code that will be issued for payme...

...al and enforceable determination by the child support enforcement agency that identified the default of both of the following: (1) The obligor is in default under the support order. (2) The amount of the arrearage owed as a result of the default. (B) If an agency's determination becomes final and enforceable under this section, the agency shall take further action as required under section 3123.06 of the Revised C...

...The department of job and family services shall adopt standard forms for the default notice.

...An advance notice issued under section 3123.03 of the Revised Code as that section existed prior to the effective date of this section shall be treated the same as a default notice issued under section 3123.03 of the Revised Code as amended by this act. If an obligor subject to an advance notice has not exhausted the rights to contest withholding or deduction because of a mistake of fact pursuant to sections 3123.02 ...

... for an administrative hearing with the child support enforcement agency that identified the default regarding whether a mistake of fact was made in the notice. The request must be filed not later than fourteen days after the date on which the default notice is issued. If the obligor makes a timely request for a hearing, the agency shall conduct an administrative hearing no later than ten days after the date on whi...

... not later than fourteen days after the child support enforcement agency issues its determinations under section 3123.04 of the Revised Code, the obligor files a written motion for a court hearing to determine whether a mistake of fact still exists in the default notice, the court shall hold a hearing as soon as possible, but not later than ten days, after the motion is filed. Not later than five days before the date...

...section 3123.05 of the Revised Code, or child support enforcement agency, under section 3123.032 or 3123.04 of the Revised Code, makes a final and enforceable determination that an obligor is in default under a support order, one of the following shall apply: (1) If no withholding notice was issued in accordance with section 3123.021 of the Revised Code with respect to the order, the court or agency shall issue one ...

...Section 3123.21 of the Revised Code applies to a withholding or deduction notice or other appropriate order issued under section 3123.06 of the Revised Code as that section existed prior to the effective date of this section beginning on the date the notice or order was issued and ending on the date the period of default ends.

...The failure of the office of child support in the department of job and family services to give the default notice required by section 3123.03 of the Revised Code does not affect the ability of any child support enforcement agency or court to issue any notice or order for the payment of support, does not provide any defense to any notice or order for the payment of support, and does not affect any obligation to pa...

...wing occurs, the court shall notify the child support enforcement agency: (A) The court is required to issue a withholding or deduction notice under section 3121.03 of the Revised Code or to issue a court order described in division (C) or (D) of that section and fails to do so. (B) The court issued an order under division (B)(1) of former section 3113.21 of the Revised Code, as it existed immediately preceding Dec...

...ection 3123.10 of the Revised Code, the child support enforcement agency shall notify the obligee of the default, of the obligee's rights and remedies, and that the agency is responsible for enforcing support orders under section 3125.11 of the Revised Code, Title IV-D of the "Social Security Act," 88 Stat. 2351 (1975), 42 U.S.C. 651 et seq., as amended, and Chapter 3125. of the Revised Code. The notice shall contain...

...No child support enforcement agency, solely because the support due under a support order has not been paid or has not been paid periodically or recently, shall consider, list, or otherwise administer the support order or the case pertaining to it as if either were closed or close the files or the case pertaining to the support order.

...The director of job and family services shall adopt, revise, or amend rules under Chapter 119. of the Revised Code to assist in the implementation of section 3123.12 of the Revised Code.

...No withholding or deduction notice or other appropriate order described in section 3121.03 of the Revised Code and issued under the Revised Code shall be terminated solely because the obligor pays any part or all of the arrearages under the support order.

...If a child support order is terminated for any reason, the obligor under the child support order is or was at any time in default under the support order and, after the termination of the order, the obligor owes an arrearage under the order, the obligee may make application to the child support enforcement agency that administered the child support order prior to its termination or had authority to administer the chi...

...f the obligee shall be commenced by the child support enforcement agency as required by section 3123.14 of the Revised Code within twenty days after completion of an application by the obligee.

...Any order issued under section 3123.14 of the Revised Code shall be payable at least monthly.

...(A) When a court issues or modifies a court support order, the court shall determine the following: (1) Whether the obligor is in default under a prior court support order or the court support order being modified; (2) If the obligor is in default, the date the court support order went into default and the amount of support arrearages owed pursuant to the default. If the court determines the obligor is in default ...

...en a court renders a money judgment for child support, pursuant to a motion for a lump sum judgment filed by an obligee, interest shall accrue on that arrearage unless the court finds that it would be inequitable to assess interest. The interest shall accrue from the date the judgment is rendered to a date certain set for payment of the judgment at a rate specified in section 1343.03 of the Revised Code at the time t...

...If a court or child support enforcement agency made a final and enforceable determination under sections 3123.02 to 3123.071 of the Revised Code as those sections existed prior to the effective date of this section or makes a final and enforceable determination under sections 3123.01 to 3123.07 of the Revised Code that an obligor is in default under a support order, each payment or installment that was due and unpaid...

...sentative of an obligor or obligee, the child support enforcement agency administering the order for which a judgment under section 3123.18 of the Revised Code has arisen shall issue to the obligor and obligee or their authorized representatives a certified pay-off statement of the total amount due on the judgment as of the time of the request. The certified pay-off statement shall be valid for a period of thirty day...

...or which the statement was issued, or a child support enforcement agency on behalf of the obligee, may bring an action to obtain execution on the certified pay-off statement in the common pleas court that issued the support order or, if the order is an administrative child support order, the common pleas court of the county served by the agency that issued the order. The court shall treat the certified pay-off statem...

...Nothing in sections 3123.18 to 3123.182 of the Revised Code limits the applicability of section 3123.22 of the Revised Code.