769.504 HistoryHistory: 1997 a. 27. 769.505769.505 Penalties for noncompliance. An employer that willfully fails to comply with an income-withholding order issued in another state and received for enforcement is subject to the same penalties that may be imposed for noncompliance with an income-withholding order issued by a tribunal of this state. 769.505 HistoryHistory: 1997 a. 27; 2009 a. 321; 2015 a. 82 s. 12. 769.506(1)(1) An obligor may contest the validity or enforcement of an income-withholding order issued in another state and received directly by an employer in this state by registering the order in a tribunal of this state and filing a contest to that order as provided in subch. VI, or otherwise contesting the order in the same manner as if the order had been issued by a tribunal of this state. Section 769.604 applies to the contest. 769.506(2)(2) The obligor shall give notice of the contest to all of the following: 769.506(2)(a)(a) A support enforcement agency providing services to the obligee. 769.506(2)(b)(b) Each employer that has directly received an income-withholding order. 769.506(2)(c)(c) Except as provided in par. (d), the person designated to receive payments in the income-withholding order. 769.506(2)(d)(d) If no person is designated to receive payments in the income-withholding order, the obligee. 769.506 HistoryHistory: 1997 a. 27 ss. 5118 to 5120, 5125, 5126; 2009 a. 321; 2015 a. 82 ss. 7, 8, 12. 769.507769.507 Administrative enforcement of orders. 769.507(1)(1) A party or support enforcement agency seeking to enforce a support order or an income-withholding order, or both, issued in another state or a foreign support order may send the documents required for registering the order to a support enforcement agency of this state. 769.507(2)(2) Upon receipt of the documents, the support enforcement agency, without initially seeking to register the order, shall consider and, if appropriate, use any administrative procedure authorized by the law of this state to enforce a support order or an income-withholding order, or both. If the obligor does not contest administrative enforcement, the order need not be registered. If the obligor contests the validity or administrative enforcement of the order, the support enforcement agency shall register the order as provided in this chapter. 769.507 HistoryHistory: 1997 a. 27; 2009 a. 321; 2015 a. 82 s. 12. REGISTRATION, ENFORCEMENT, AND MODIFICATION OF SUPPORT ORDER
769.601769.601 Registration of order for enforcement. A support order or an income-withholding order issued in another state or a foreign support order may be registered in this state for enforcement. 769.602769.602 Procedure to register order for enforcement. 769.602(1)(1) Except as provided in s. 769.706, a support order or income-withholding order of another state or a foreign support order may be registered in this state by sending all of the following records to the appropriate tribunal in this state: 769.602(1)(a)(a) A letter of transmittal to the tribunal requesting registration and enforcement. 769.602(1)(b)(b) Two copies, including one certified copy, of all orders to be registered, including any modification of an order. 769.602(1)(c)(c) A sworn statement by the person requesting registration or a certified statement by the custodian of the records showing the amount of any arrearage. 769.602(1)(d)(d) The name of the obligor and any of the following that are known: 769.602(1)(d)2.2. The name and address of the obligor’s employer and any other source of income of the obligor. 769.602(1)(d)3.3. A description and the location of property of the obligor in this state not exempt from execution. 769.602(1)(e)(e) Except as provided in s. 769.312, the name and address of the obligee and, if applicable, the agency or person to whom support payments are to be remitted.