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...ed Code. (C) The director shall adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code to implement this section, which rules shall be consistent with section 4141.284 of the Revised Code and federal law governing the department.

...(A) As used in this section, "prison," "prison term," and "jail" have the same meanings as in section 2929.01 of the Revised Code. (B) Notwithstanding any other section of the Revised Code, including sections 5145.16 and 5147.30 of the Revised Code, twenty-five per cent of any money earned pursuant to section 5145.16 or 5147.30 of the Revised Code by a prisoner in a prison or jail who has a dependent child receiving...

...An obligee owed support 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 o...

...A withholding notice 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 t...

...shall be distributed in accordance with rules adopted under section 3121.71 of the Revised Code. (C) In the case of a notice of a lump sum payment made in accordance with a support order issued prior to January 1, 1998, requiring an employer to withhold an amount from an obligor's personal earnings for the payment of support, the agency that receives notification of the lump sum payment from the payor shall notify t...

...n by regular mail to the person who was required to comply with the withholding, deduction, or other requirement contained in the canceled notice or order, and the agency shall issue one or more new notices containing one or more requirements described in section 3121.03 of the Revised Code that it determines are appropriate. If the agency determines that no notice of the type described in that section would be app...

...pport order, the court shall proceed to collect on any cash bond and shall order it paid to the office of child support in the department of job and family services.

...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.

...holding 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 lowest rate it charges, if any, for a debit transaction in a similar account as a charge for it...

...(A) The entire amount withheld or deducted pursuant to a withholding or deduction notice described in section 3121.03 of the Revised Code shall 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 ...

...(A) A payor or financial institution required to withhold or deduct a specified amount from the income or savings of more than one obligor under a withholding or deduction notice described in section 3121.03 of the Revised Code and to forward the amounts withheld 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 ...

...A payor or financial institution shall not be subject to criminal or civil liability for compliance, in accordance with sections 3121.18 to 3121.20 of the Revised Code, with a withholding or deduction notice.

...Except when a provision specifically authorizes or requires service other than as described in this section, service of any notice on any party, a financial institution, or payor, for purposes of Chapters 3119., 3121., 3123., and 3125. of the Revised Code, shall be made by ordinary first class mail directed to the addressee at the last known address or, in the case of a corporation, at its usual place of doing busine...

...No person shall fail to give the notice required by division (A) of this section. (B) The parties affected by the support order shall inform the child support enforcement agency of any change of name or other change of conditions that may affect the administration of the order.

...If a party to a court support order requests a modification of the order or an obligee under a court support order or a person acting on behalf of an obligee files an action to enforce a court child support order, the court shall notify the child support enforcement agency that is administering the court child support order or that will administer the order of the request or the filing.

...(A) A court or child support enforcement agency shall include in any order for support it issues a general provision that states the following: "All support under this order shall be withheld or deducted from the income or assets of the obligor pursuant to a withholding or deduction notice or appropriate order issued in accordance with Chapters 3119., 3121., 3123., and 3125. of the Revised Code or a withdrawal direc...

...the order, in addition to any provision required by the Revised Code, all of the following: (A) A requirement that, regardless of the frequency or amount of support payments to be made under the order, the child support enforcement agency required to administer the order shall administer it on a monthly basis, in accordance with sections 3121.51 to 3121.54 of the Revised Code; (B) A specification of the monthly amo...

... SUPPORT ORDER AND YOU FAIL TO MAKE THE REQUIRED NOTIFICATIONS, YOU MAY BE FINED UP TO $50 FOR A FIRST OFFENSE, $100 FOR A SECOND OFFENSE, AND $500 FOR EACH SUBSEQUENT OFFENSE. IF YOU ARE AN OBLIGOR OR OBLIGEE UNDER ANY SUPPORT ORDER ISSUED BY A COURT AND YOU WILLFULLY FAIL TO GIVE THE REQUIRED NOTICES, YOU MAY BE FOUND IN CONTEMPT OF COURT AND BE SUBJECTED TO FINES UP TO $1,000 AND IMPRISONMENT FOR NOT MORE THAN 90 ...

...A support order, or modification of a support order, shall contain the date of birth and social security number of the obligor.

...The withholding or deduction notices, other orders issued under sections 3121.03 and 3121.04 to 3121.06 of the Revised Code, administrative orders issued under section 3121.12 of the Revised Code, and the notices that require the obligor to notify the child support enforcement agency administering the support order of any change in the obligor's employment status or of any other change in the status of the obligor'...

...A person required to comply with withholding or deduction notices described in section 3121.03 of the Revised Code shall determine the manner of withholding or deducting from the specific requirement included in the notices without the need for any amendment to the support order, and a person required to comply with an order described in sections 3121.03 and 3121.04 to 3121.06 of the Revised Code, or an administrat...

...A court that has authority to issue a court support order shall have all powers necessary to enforce the order and any administrative child support order and all other powers set forth in the Revised Code.

... or child support enforcement agency to collect any overdue and unpaid support or arrearage owed under the terminated support order or the power of the court to punish any person for a failure to comply with, or to pay any support as ordered in, the terminated support order. The termination does not abate the authority of the court or agency to issue any notice described in section 3121.03 of the Revised Code or to i...

...If an obligor or any other person fails to comply with an administrative child support order, the agency that issued the order may request that the juvenile court or other court with jurisdiction under section 2101.022 or 2301.03 of the Revised Code of the county in which the agency is located find the obligor or other person in contempt pursuant to section 2705.02 of the Revised Code.

...If a child support enforcement agency sends a notice imposing a withholding or deduction requirement or any other appropriate requirement to a person described in section 3121.03 of the Revised Code and the payor or financial institution sent the withholding, deduction, or other appropriate notice fails to comply with the notice, the agency shall request that the court issue a court order requiring the payor or finan...