Employer’s compliance with income-withholding order of another state.

NRS

130.502

Employer’s compliance with income-withholding order of another state.

1. Upon receipt of an income-withholding order, an employer of an obligor shall immediately provide a copy of the order to the obligor.

2. The employer shall treat an income-withholding order issued in another state that appears regular on its face as if it had been issued by a tribunal of this State.

3. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 4 and NRS 130.503 , the employer shall withhold and distribute the money as directed in the withholding order by complying with terms of the order which specify:

(a) The duration and amount of periodic payments of current child support, stated as a sum certain;

(b) The person designated to receive payments and the address to which the payments are to be forwarded;

(c) Requirements for medical support, whether in the form of periodic cash payment, stated as a sum certain, or ordering the obligor to provide health insurance coverage for the child under a policy available through the obligor’s employment;

(d) The amount of periodic payments of fees and costs for a support-enforcement agency, the issuing tribunal and the obligee’s attorney, stated as sums certain; and

(e) The amount of periodic payments of arrearages and interest on arrearages, stated as sums certain.

4. An employer shall comply with the law of the state of the obligor’s principal place of employment for withholding from income with respect to:

(a) The employer’s fee for processing an income-withholding order;

(b) The maximum amount permitted to be withheld from the obligor’s income;

(c) The times within which the employer must implement the withholding order and forward the child-support payment; and

(d) Any terms or conditions of withholding not specified in the withholding order.

(Added to NRS by 1997, 2322 ; A 2007, 130 )