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...In any action in which a court support order is issued or modified, the court issuing or modifying the order shall conduct a hearing, prior to or at the time of the issuance of the order, to determine the employment status of the obligor, the obligor's social security number, the name and business address of the obligor's employer, and any other information necessary to enable the court or a child support enforcement...

...A court or child support enforcement agency that issues or modifies a support order shall determine the withholding or deduction requirements or other appropriate requirements applicable to the obligor under the support order in accordance with sections 3121.03, 3121.04 to 3121.08, and 3121.12 of the Revised Code and include the requirements in the withholding or deduction notices described in section 3121.03 of the ...

...If a court or child support enforcement agency is required to issue one or more notices or orders described in section 3121.03 of the Revised Code, the court or agency to the extent possible shall issue a sufficient number of the notices or orders to provide that the aggregate amount withheld or deducted under those notices or orders satisfies the amount ordered for support in the support order plus any arrearages ow...

...his section, notify each court or child support enforcement agency that issued one of the notices of the allocation, and give priority to amounts designated in each notice as current support in the following manner: (1) If the total of the amounts designated in the notices as current support exceeds the amount available for withholding under section 303(b) of the "Consumer Credit Protection Act," 15 U.S.C. 1673(b), ...

...tion of the support order, the court or child support enforcement agency that issued or modified the support order, or the agency, pursuant to an agreement with the court with respect to a court support order, shall do either of the following: (A) If a withholding or deduction notice described in section 3121.03 of the Revised Code is appropriate, send the notice by ordinary mail or electronic means to each person r...

...cial institution. (E) No obligor shall fail to give the notice described in division (A)(1) of this section.

...nt; (6) A statement that, if the payor fails to withhold in accordance with the notice, the payor is liable for the accumulated amount the payor should have withheld from the obligor's income; (7) A statement that, except for deductions from lump sum payments made in accordance with section 3121.0311 of the Revised Code, the withholding in accordance with the notice has priority over any other legal process u...

...No withholding or deduction notice or other order described in section 3121.03 of the Revised Code shall contain any information other than the information specifically required by the Revised Code and any additional information that the issuing court or agency determines may be necessary to comply with the notice.

...(A) For purposes of Chapters 3119., 3121., 3123., and 3125. of the Revised Code, the following shall be considered a withholding or deduction notice issued under section 3121.03 of the Revised Code: (1) A withholding or deduction order that was issued under division (D) of section 3113.21 of the Revised Code as that division existed prior to December 31, 1993, and that was not terminated on or after that date; (2) ...

...section 3121.03 of the Revised Code, which shall be used regardless of the type or source of income. All courts and child support enforcement agencies shall use the forms in issuing withholding and deduction notices. The withholding and deduction requirements contained in the notices are final and enforceable by the court.

...rior to issuing the notice to the child support enforcement agency required by that division, the administrator of workers' compensation, for claims involving state fund employers, or a self-insuring employer, for that employer's claims, shall notify the obligor and the obligor's attorney in writing that the obligor is subject to a support order and that the administrator or self-insuring employer, as appropria...

...ised Code and issued to enforce a court support order derives income from self-employment or commission, is employed by an employer not subject to the jurisdiction of the court, or is in any other employment situation that makes issuance of a withholding notice impracticable, the court may require the person to enter into a cash bond to the court in a sum fixed by the court at not less than five hundred nor more than...

...3123.05 of the Revised Code, or a child support enforcement agency determines at a hearing under section 3123.04 of the Revised Code or pursuant to an investigation conducted under section 3123.02 of the Revised Code, that the obligor under the court support order in relation to which the hearing or investigation is conducted is unemployed and has no other source of income and no assets so that the application of sec...

...d shall order the obligor to notify the child support enforcement agency, in writing, immediately of the receipt of any source of income or of the opening of an account in a financial institution, and to include in the notification a description of the nature of the employment or income source, the name, business address, and telephone number of the employer or income source or the name, address, and telephone number...

...(A) If a child support enforcement agency discovers pursuant to an investigation conducted under section 3123.02 of the Revised Code that an obligor under a child support order that it is administering may be receiving unemployment compensation benefits or if a child support enforcement agency receives notice or otherwise discovers that an obligor under a child support order may be receiving unemployment compensation...

...in a prison or jail who has a dependent child receiving assistance under Chapter 5107. of the Revised Code, shall be paid to the state department of job and family services.

...rt under a support order, or a court or child support enforcement agency on behalf of the obligee, may maintain a proceeding under Chapter 3115., 3119., 3121., 3123., or 3125. of the Revised Code, or under the comparable law of another state or country, against the state to withhold support from payments owed or to be owed to one of the following individuals who is the obligor under the support order: (A) An officer...

...otice or other order issued pursuant to Chapter 3115., 3119., 3121., or 3123. of the Revised Code with respect to an obligor described in section 3121.09 of the Revised Code shall be served on one of the following: (A) If the obligor is an officer or employee of the state, on the director of administrative services; (B) If the obligor is an individual described in division (B) of section 3121.09 of the Revised Code...

...ld support. (D) A payor that knowingly fails to notify the agency in accordance with this section or section 3121.03 of the Revised Code of any lump sum payment to be made to an obligor is liable for any support payment not made to the obligee as a result of its knowing failure to give the notice.

...t has issued a court support order or a child support enforcement agency has issued an administrative child support order, when the issuing court or agency, or the agency administering the support order, has issued one or more notices containing one or more of the requirements described in section 3121.03 of the Revised Code or when a court or agency that issued the support order has issued one or more orders descri...

...When a court or child support enforcement agency has issued one or more notices containing one or more of the requirements described in section 3121.03 of the Revised Code requiring withholding by a payor that is not an employer or requiring deduction by a financial institution, a court has issued one or more court orders described in division (C) or (D) of that section, or an agency has issued an administrative orde...

...If a child support enforcement agency sends a notice imposing a withholding or deduction requirement or a court or agency sends an order imposing any other appropriate requirement to a person under section 3121.14 or 3121.15 of the Revised Code, the notice or order also shall be considered to have been issued under section 3121.03 of the Revised Code. The notice or order is final and is enforceable by the court.

...ne per cent of the amount withheld as a charge for its services in complying with the withholding notice. A financial institution required to deduct funds from an account under a deduction notice described in section 3121.03 of the Revised Code may deduct from the account of the person, in addition to the amount deducted for purposes of support, a fee of the lesser of five dollars or an amount not exceeding the lowes...

...ll be forwarded to the office of child support in the department of job and family services immediately, but not later than seven business days, after the withholding or deduction, as directed in the withholding or deduction notice. (B) An employer who employs more than fifty employees shall submit the entire amount withheld pursuant to a withholding notice described in section 3121.03 of the Revised Code by ...

...eld or deducted to the office of child support may combine all of the amounts to be forwarded in one payment if the payment is accompanied by a list that clearly identifies all of the following: (1) Each obligor covered by the payment; (2) Each child support case, numbered as provided on the withholding or deduction notice, that is covered by the payment; (3) The portion of the payment attributable to each ob...