Section 93-25-506 – Contest by obligor

May 13, 2021 | Family Law, Mississippi

(a) 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 Article 6, or otherwise contesting the order in the same manner as if the order had been issued by a tribunal of this state.
(b) The obligor shall give notice of the contest to:

(1) A support enforcement agency providing services to the obligee;
(2) Each employer that has directly received an income-withholding order relating to the obligor; and
(3) The person designated to receive payments in the income-withholding order, or if no person is designated, to the obligee.

Miss. Code ยง 93-25-506

Added by Laws, 2015, ch. 367, SB 2301, 1, eff. 7/1/2015.