Section 23-3124 – Income withholding order; lump sum payment; attachment

May 13, 2021 | Family Law, Kansas

(a) Except as otherwise provided in this section, an income withholding order for attachment of a lump sum payment shall have the effect of attaching:

(1) Any intangible property, funds, credits or other indebtedness of a non-recurring nature belonging or owing to the obligor which is due from the payor or in the possession or under the control of the payor at the time of service of the order; and
(2) all such personal property becoming due to the obligor between the time the order is served on the payor and the 35th day after the date the order is served.
(b) The payor shall hold the attached funds, credits or indebtedness at least 14 days following the date the income withholding order for attachment of a lump sum payment was served. Thereafter, except as otherwise provided in this section, the payor shall remit the amount attached no later than the date the lump sum payment would have been paid to the obligor or 21 days after the date the order was served, whichever is later.
(c) The payor shall hold the attached funds, credits or indebtedness until further order of the court if, before remitting funds pursuant to subsection (b), the payor receives notice of a hearing on the obligor’s claim of exemption concerning the income withholding order for attachment of a lump sum payment.
(d) This section shall be part of and supplemental to the income withholding act, K.S.A. 2020 Supp. 23-3101 et seq., and amendments thereto.

K.S.A. 23-3124

Added by L. 2013, ch. 124,ยง 4, eff. 7/1/2013.