Ariz. Admin. Code § 6-7-601

Current through Register Vol. 30, No. 45, November 8, 2024

Section R6-7-601 - Distribution

A. The Title IV-D Agency shall distribute monies collected in a Title IV-D case in accordance with state and federal law and the provisions of this Article in the following sequence to:

1. Current child support;

2. Current spousal maintenance;

3. Current cash medical support;

4. Child support judgments for arrearage or past support, and the applicable corresponding interest;

5. Spousal maintenance judgments for arrearage or past support and the applicable corresponding interest;

6. Pregnancy and childbirth judgments and the corresponding interest;

7. Cash medical support judgments and the corresponding interest;

8. Judgments for uncovered medical costs and the corresponding interest;

9. Child support arrearages not reduced to a written judgment and the corresponding interest;

10. Spousal maintenance arrearages not reduced to a written judgment and the corresponding interest;

11. Cash medical support arrearages not reduced to a written judgment, and the corresponding interest;

12. Current month's handling fee;

13. Handling fees owed to the Support Payment Clearinghouse;

14. IRS tax reversals;

15. Other fees or costs; and

16. Futures.

B. Arrearage payments distributed in a Title IV-D case are applied first to the principal and then to the interest that accrued on that principal in the following order:

1. The oldest written judgment's principal and interest and then to each successive written judgment's principal and interest.

2. Arrearages not reduced to a written judgment and the corresponding interest.

C. The Title IV-D Agency shall credit amounts received as support from or on behalf of the obligor as the required support obligation for the month in which they are received unless they are submitted by an employer. Payments submitted by an employer as the result of an income withholding order are considered received in the month in which the income was withheld by the employer. The date of receipt for income withholding order payments is the last day of the pay period from which the payment is withheld.

D. A voluntary payment received in a cash assistance case shall be retained by the Title IV-D Agency and shared with the federal government. Any monies received in excess of cash assistance owed to the state and federal government shall be paid to the obligee.

Ariz. Admin. Code § R6-7-601

New Section made by final rulemaking at 11 A.A.R. 5201, effective November 15, 2005 (Supp. 05-4). Amended by final rulemaking at 15 A.A.R. 1250, effective September 5, 2009 (Supp. 09-3).