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...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...

...An action or proceeding on behalf of 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 ...

...When 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...

...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...

...On the request of an obligor, obligee, or authorized representative 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 p...

...During the period a certified pay-off statement issued under section 3123.181 of the Revised Code is valid, the obligee under the support order for 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 s...

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

...If child support arrearages are owed by an obligor to the obligee and to the department of job and family services, any payments received on the arrearages by the office of child support shall be paid in accordance with Title IV-D of the "Social Security Act," 88 Stat. 2351, 42 U.S.C. 651 et seq., as amended, and rules adopted by the director of job and family services. If an obligor is in default under a support or...

...No employer shall discharge an employee for reason of any order issued under the Revised Code to collect support due from the employee under a support order.

...(A) A withholding or deduction notice described in section 3121.03 of the Revised Code or an order to collect current support due under a support order and any arrearage owed by the obligor under a support order pertaining to the same child or spouse shall be rebuttably presumed to provide that the arrearage amount collected with each payment of current support equal at least twenty per cent of the current support p...

...Except as otherwise provided in this section, if an obligor is paying off an arrearage owed under a support order pursuant to a withholding or deduction notice or order issued under section 3121.03 of the Revised Code, a support order newly issued or modified, or any other order issued to collect the arrearage, the child support enforcement agency administering the notice or order may also take any action, including...

...(A) The director of job and family services shall adopt rules under Chapter 119. of the Revised Code to implement a program to collect arrearages owed under child support orders from insurance claims, settlements, awards, and payments based on information obtained pursuant to Title IV-D of the Social Security Act, 42 U.S.C. 652. (B) Any insurer and any director, agent, or employee authorized to act on behalf ...

...For the purposes of sections 3123.24 to 3123.38 of the Revised Code, "access restriction" means that funds may not be withdrawn or transferred.

...(A) If, as a result of information obtained pursuant to an agreement under section 3121.74 of the Revised Code, the office of child support in the department of job and family services finds or receives notice that identifies an obligor in default who maintains an account with a financial institution, the office shall, within one business day, enter the information into the case registry established pursuant to secti...

...A financial institution shall promptly place an access restriction on the account of an obligor who maintains an account at the financial institution upon receipt of an access restriction notice with respect to the obligor from the child support enforcement agency. The access restriction shall remain on the account until the financial institution complies with a withdrawal directive under section 3123.37 of the Revis...

...The child support enforcement agency may investigate and determine the amount of funds in the account that is available to satisfy the obligor's arrearages under a support order. The financial institution shall cooperate with the agency's investigation.

...If a child support enforcement agency that completes an account investigation does not find that any person other than the obligor has an ownership interest in the account, it shall issue a withdrawal directive pursuant to section 3123.37 of the Revised Code.

...If a child support enforcement agency finds that a person other than an obligor has an ownership interest in an account, the agency shall send written notice by first-class mail to that person at an address for that person contained in records of the financial institution, except that if the address of that person is not contained in records of the financial institution, the agency shall send the notice to that perso...

...The notice sent under section 3123.29 of the Revised Code shall contain both of the following: (A) A statement of the date the notice is sent, that another of the account holders is an obligor under a support order, the name of the obligor, that the support order is in default, the amount of the arrearage owed by the obligor as determined by the court or child support enforcement agency, the amount that will be with...

...The person to whom notice is sent under section 3123.29 of the Revised Code shall have fourteen days from the date the notice is issued to object to the withdrawal by filing with the child support enforcement agency that sent the notice a written request for an administrative hearing to determine whether any amount contained in the account is the property of that person and should not be subject to the withdrawal dir...

...If a person to whom a notice is sent under section 3123.29 of the Revised Code fails to file a timely request for an administrative hearing, the child support enforcement agency that sent the notice shall send a withdrawal directive to the financial institution pursuant to section 3123.37 of the Revised Code. A copy of this notice shall be sent to the obligor.

...If a person who received notice under section 3123.29 of the Revised Code requests it in a timely manner, the child support enforcement agency that sent the notice shall conduct an administrative hearing no later than ten days after the date the person files the request for the hearing. No later than five days before the date the hearing is to be conducted, the agency shall send the person written notice of the date,...