15.802 Duties of Department of Child Support Services -- Processing of child
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support payments -- State disbursement unit -- Cooperation with courts and
officials -- Reporting of obligors -- Denial, suspension, and revocation of
licenses -- Data match system -- Subpoenas -- Distribution of child support
program information.
(1)The duties of the Department of Child Support Services within the Department of
Law, or its designee, shall include:
(a)Serve as state agency authorized to administer Part D of Title IV of the Social
Security Act, 42 U.S.C. secs. 651 to 669;
(b)Serve as the information agency as provided in the Uniform Interstate Family
Support Act, KRS Chapter 407;
(c)Serve as collector of all court-ordered or administratively ordered child
support payments pursuant to Part D of Title IV of the Social Security Act;
(d)Serve as the agent for enforcement of international child support obligations,
and respond to requests from foreign reciprocating countries;
(e)Establish and enforce an obligation upon receipt of a completed, notarized
voluntary acknowledgment-of-paternity form;
(f)Enforce Kentucky child support laws, including collection of court-ordered or
administratively ordered child support arrearages and prosecution of persons
who fail to pay child support;
(g)Publicize the availability of services and encourage the use of these services
for establishing paternity and child support;
(h)Pay the cost of genetic testing to establish paternity, subject to recoupment
from the alleged father, when paternity is administratively or judicially
determined; and obtain additional testing when an original test is contested,
upon request and advance payment by the contestant;
(i)Establish child support obligations and seek modification of judicially or
administratively established child support obligations in accordance with the
child support guidelines of the Commonwealth of Kentucky as provided under
KRS 403.212;
(j)Administratively establish child support orders which shall have the same
force and effect of law;
(k)Issue an administrative subpoena to secure public and private records of
utility and cable companies and asset and liability information from financial
institutions for the establishment, modification, or enforcement of a child
support obligation;
(l)Impose a penalty for failure to comply with an administrative subpoena;
(m)Provide notices, copies of proceedings, and determinations of support
amounts to any parties or individuals who are applying for or receiving Title
IV-D services, or who are parties to cases in which Title IV-D services are
being provided; and
(n)Issue interstate administrative subpoenas to any individual or entity for
financial or other information or documents which are needed to establish,
modify, or enforce a child support obligation pursuant to Part D of Title IV of
the Social Security Act, 42 U.S.C. sec. 651 et seq. An administrative
subpoena lawfully issued in another state to an individual or entity residing in
this state shall be honored and enforced in the Circuit Court where the
individual or entity resides.
(2)The Department of Child Support Services within the Department of Law, or its
designee, may promulgate administrative regulations to implement this section and
adopt forms or implement other requirements of federal law relating to interstate
administrative subpoenas, and may amend forms by technical amendment that are
mandated by the federal Office of Child Support Enforcement and incorporated by
reference in administrative regulation.
(3)The Office of the Attorney General shall maintain a system to receive and process
all child support payments. The system shall include existing computer systems to
record the payments. The automated system shall include a state case registry that
contains records with respect to each case in which services are being provided by
the office and each child support order established or modified in the state.
(4)The Office of the Attorney General shall establish and operate a state disbursement
unit for the collection, disbursement, and recording of payments under support
orders for all Title IV-D cases and for all cases initially issued in the state in which
a wage withholding has been court-ordered or administratively ordered, pursuant to
Part D of Title IV of the Social Security Act. Establishment of the state unit may
include the designation and continuation of existing local collection units to aid
efficient and effective collection, disbursement, and recording of child support
payments.
(5)After the establishment of the disbursement unit child support collection system, the
Office of the Attorney General or its designee shall serve as collector of all court-
ordered or administratively ordered child support payments pursuant to Part D of
Title IV of the Social Security Act.
(6)Where establishment of paternity and enforcement and collection of child support is
by law the responsibility of local officials, the Office of the Attorney General shall
refer cases to the appropriate official for such action. The office may enter into
cooperative arrangements with appropriate courts and law enforcement officials to
assist the office in administering the program of child support recovery, including
the entering into of financial arrangements with such courts and officials as
provided for under the provisions of federal law and regulations. The local county
attorney shall be considered the designee of the office for purposes of administering
the program of child support recovery within a county, subject to the option of the
county attorney to decline such designation. Nothing in this section shall prevent
the Attorney General from taking such action, with prior written notice, as
appropriate if the terms and conditions of the cooperative agreement are not met.
When a cooperative agreement with a contracting official is canceled for good
cause, the office may not offer that cooperative agreement to that official during the
official's tenure.
(7)Where the local county attorney, friend of the court, domestic relations agent, or
other designee of the Office of the Attorney General has been contracted for the
purpose of administering child support enforcement pursuant to Title IV-D of the
Social Security Act, the contracting official shall be deemed to be representing the
office and as such does not have an attorney-client relationship with the applicant
who has requested services pursuant to Title IV-D of the Social Security Act nor
with any dependent on behalf of the individuals for whom services are sought.
(8)The Office of the Attorney General shall determine the name of each obligor who
owes an arrearage of at least two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500). After
notification to the obligor owing an arrearage amount of two thousand five hundred
dollars ($2,500), the office shall transmit to the United States secretary of health
and human services the certified names of the individuals and supporting
documentation for the denial, revocation, or limitation of the obligor's passport. The
office shall notify the identified obligor of the determination and the consequences
and provide an opportunity to contest the determination.
(9)The Office of the Attorney General shall determine the name of an obligor owing
an arrearage and shall indefinitely deny, suspend, or revoke a license or certification
that has been issued if the person has a child support arrearage that equals or
exceeds the amount that would be owed after six
(6)months of nonpayment or fails,
after receiving appropriate notice, to comply with subpoenas or warrants relating to
paternity or child support proceedings as provided by 42 U.S.C. sec. 666(a)(16).
(10)The Office of the Attorney General shall forward the name of the individual to a
board of licensure or board of certification for the notification of the denial,
revocation, or suspension of a driver's license, professional license or certification,
occupational license or certification, recreational license, or sporting license.
(11)The denial or suspension shall remain in effect until the child support arrearage has
been eliminated or payments on the child support arrearage are being made in
accordance with a court or administrative order, the person complies with the
subpoena or warrant relating to paternity or child support proceedings, or the appeal
of the denial or suspension is upheld and the license is reinstated.
(12)Except for cases administered by the Office of the Attorney General under 42
U.S.C. sec. 651 et seq. which shall be afforded the appeal process set forth by KRS
405.450(3), an individual who has a license or certification denied, revoked, or
suspended shall have the right to appeal to the licensing or certifying board.
(13)A dispute hearing shall be conducted by the Office of the Attorney General in
accordance with KRS 405.450. The only basis for a dispute hearing shall be a
mistake in fact.
(14)The Office of the Attorney General shall in its discretion enter into agreements with
financial institutions doing business in the Commonwealth to develop and operate,
in coordination with the financial institutions, a data match system as required by
KRS 15.844, 15.846, 15.848, and 15.850.
(15)The Office of the Attorney General may issue both intrastate and interstate
administrative subpoenas to any individual or entity for financial or other
information or documents that are needed to establish, modify, or enforce a child
support obligation pursuant to Title IV-D of the Social Security Act, 42 U.S.C. sec.
651 et seq. An administrative subpoena lawfully issued in another state to an
individual or entity in this state shall be honored and enforced in the Circuit Court
of the county in which the individual or entity resides.
(16)The Office of the Attorney General shall promulgate administrative regulations in
accordance with KRS Chapter 13A to implement KRS 15.055.
(17)The Office of the Attorney General shall compare a quarterly report provided by the
Finance and Administration Cabinet of all tort claims made against the state by
individuals with the child support database to match individuals who have a child
support arrearage and may receive a settlement from the state.
(18)The Office of the Attorney General shall prepare and distribute to the office's
designee for the administration of the child support program information on child
support collections and enforcement. The information shall include a description of
how child support obligations are:
(a)Established;
(b)Modified;
(c)Enforced;
(d)Collected; and
(e)Distributed.
(19)The Office of the Attorney General's designee for the administration of the child
support program shall distribute, when appropriate, the following:
(a)Information on child support collections and enforcement; and
(b)Job listings posted by employment services.