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Chapter 15 - ALTERNATIVE METHOD COLLECTION-OF-SUPPORT DEBT MECHANISMS
Section 144-351-15-3 - IMMEDIATE INCOME WITHHOLDING (19-A M.R.S. section 2306)

10- 144 C.M.R. ch. 351, § 15-3

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Current through 2024-51, December 18, 2024
Section 144-351-15-3 - IMMEDIATE INCOME WITHHOLDING (19-A M.R.S. section 2306)

An employer or other payor of earnings who is served with an Income Withholding Order must:

1. Immediately begin to withhold earnings.
2. Immediately after 20 days from the date of receipt of the order to withhold and deliver, forthwith deliver to the Department all earnings previously withheld, and thereafter send all amounts withheld from earnings to the Department within 7 business days of the date the responsible parent is paid.

Monies withheld from the debtor's earnings may be combined with monies withheld from other employees'/payees' earnings if the portion of the single payment which is attributable to the debtor is separately identified, provided that such combining of monies withheld does not result in the failure to send the amount withheld from the debtor's earnings to the Department within 7 business days of the date the debtor is paid.

The failure of an employer or other payor of earnings to honor this rule constitutes a failure to honor the order to withhold earnings, within the meaning of 19-A M.R.S. §2366.

10- 144 C.M.R. ch. 351, § 15-3