Colorado

Family Law

Section 14-5-503 – Employer’s compliance with two or more income-withholding orders

If an obligor’s employer receives two or more income-withholding orders with respect to the earnings of the same obligor, the employer satisfies the terms of the orders if the employer complies with the law of the state of the obligor’s principal place of employment to establish the priorities for withholding and allocating income withheld for two or more child support obligees.

C.R.S. § 14-5-503

L. 97: Entire part amended with relocations, p. 540, § 11, effective July 1. L. 2003: Entire section amended, p. 1256, § 29, effective July 1, 2004.

COMMENT

Consistent with the act’s general problem-solving approach, the employer is directed to deal with multiple income orders for multiple families in the same manner as required by local law for orders of the forum state.

In addition to income withholding orders issued by tribunals of other states, state support enforcement agencies may also issue income withholding orders to enforce foreign child-support orders.