- (a) When a support order or income withholding order issued in another state or a foreign support order is registered, the registering tribunal of this state shall notify the nonregistering party. The notice must be accompanied by a copy of the registered order and the documents and relevant information accompanying the order.
(b) A notice must inform the nonregistering party:
- (1) That a registered support order is enforceable as of the date of registration in the same manner as an order issued by a tribunal of this state;
- (2) that a hearing to contest the validity or enforcement of the registered order must be requested within 20 days after notice unless the registered order is under K.S.A. 23-36,707, and amendments thereto;
- (3) that failure to contest the validity or enforcement of the registered order in a timely manner will result in confirmation of the order and enforcement of the order and the alleged arrearages; and
- (4) of the amount of any alleged arrearages.
(c) If the registering party asserts that two or more orders are in effect, a notice must also:
- (1) Identify the two or more orders and the order alleged by the registering party to be the controlling order and the consolidated arrears, if any;
- (2) notify the nonregistering party of the right to a determination of which is the controlling order;
- (3) state that the procedures provided in subsection (b) apply to the determination of which is the controlling order; and
- (4) state that failure to contest the validity or enforcement of the order alleged to be the controlling order in a timely manner may result in confirmation that the order is the controlling order.
- (d) Upon registration of an income withholding order for enforcement, the support enforcement agency or the registering tribunal shall notify the obligor's employer pursuant to the income withholding act, K.S.A. 23-3101 et seq., and amendments thereto.
L. 1994, ch. 301, § 70; L. 1997, ch. 182, § 51; L. 2015, ch. 64, § 46; July 1.