Revised Code of Washington
2024 Archive

Chapter 74.20A RCW
SUPPORT OF DEPENDENT CHILDREN—ALTERNATIVE METHOD—1971 ACT
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Sections
74.20A.010Purpose—Remedies additional.
74.20A.020Definitions.
74.20A.030Department subrogated to rights for support—Enforcement actions—Certain parents exempt.
74.20A.035Augmentation of paternity establishment services.
74.20A.040Notice of support debt—Service or mailing—Contents—Action on, when.
74.20A.055Notice and finding of financial responsibility of person required to pay support—Service—Hearing—Decisions—Rules.
74.20A.056Notice and finding of financial responsibility pursuant to an acknowledgment of parentage—Procedure for contesting—Rules.
74.20A.057Jurisdiction over responsible parent.
74.20A.059Modification of administrative orders establishing child support—Petition—Grounds—Procedure.
74.20A.060Assertion of lien—Effect.
74.20A.070Service of lien.
74.20A.080Order to withhold and deliver—Issuance and service—Contents—Effect—Duties of person served—Processing fee.
74.20A.090Certain amount of earnings exempt from lien or order—"Earnings" and "disposable earnings" defined.
74.20A.095Support enforcement services—Action against earnings within state—Notice.
74.20A.100Civil liability upon failure to comply with order or lien—Collection.
74.20A.110Release of excess to debtor.
74.20A.120Banks, savings and loan associations, credit unions—Service on main office or branch, effect—Collection actions against community bank account, right to adjudicative proceeding.
74.20A.130Distraint, seizure and sale of property subject to liens under RCW 74.20A.060—Procedure.
74.20A.140Action for foreclosure of support lien—Satisfaction.
74.20A.150Satisfaction of lien after foreclosure proceedings instituted—Redemption.
74.20A.160Secretary may set debt payment schedule, release funds in certain hardship cases.
74.20A.170Secretary may release lien or order or return seized property—Effect.
74.20A.180Secretary may make demand, file and serve liens, when payments appear in jeopardy.
74.20A.188Request for assistance on automated enforcement of interstate case—Certification required.
74.20A.200Judicial relief after administrative remedies exhausted.
74.20A.220Charging off child support debts as uncollectible—Compromise—Waiver of any bar to collection.
74.20A.230Employee debtor rights protected—Remedies.
74.20A.240Assignment of earnings to be honored—Effect—Income withholding forms—Processing fee.
74.20A.250Secretary empowered to act as attorney, endorse drafts.
74.20A.260Industrial insurance disability payments subject to collection by office of support enforcement.
74.20A.270Department claim for support moneys—Notice—Answer—Adjudicative proceeding—Judicial review—Moneys not subject to claim.
74.20A.275Support payments in possession of third parties—Collection.
74.20A.280Department to respect privacy of recipients.
74.20A.290Applicant for adjudicative proceeding must advise department of current address.
74.20A.300Medical support—Health care coverage required.
74.20A.310Federal and state cooperation—Rules—Construction.
74.20A.320License suspension—Notice of noncompliance with a child support order—License renewal and reinstatement.
74.20A.322License suspension—Adjudicative proceeding.
74.20A.324License suspension—Certification of noncompliance.
74.20A.326License suspension—Payment schedule arrangements.
74.20A.328License suspension—Rules.
74.20A.330License suspension—Agreements between department and licensing entities—Identification of responsible parents.
74.20A.350Noncompliance—Notice—Fines—License suspension—Hearings—Rules.
74.20A.360Records access—Confidentiality—Nonliability—Penalty for noncompliance.
74.20A.370Financial institution data matches.
74.20A.900Severability—Alternative when method of notification held invalid.
74.20A.910Savings clause.
74.20A.920Construction—Chapter applicable to state registered domestic partnerships—2009 c 521.
NOTES:
Child support enforcement: Chapter 26.18 RCW.
Child support registry: Chapter 26.23 RCW.