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Section 769.506 – Contest by obligor

May 14, 2021 | Family Law, Wisconsin

(1) 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 subch. VI, or otherwise contesting the order in the same manner as if the order had been issued by a tribunal of this state. Section 769.604 applies to the contest.
(2) The obligor shall give notice of the contest to all of the following:

(a) A support enforcement agency providing services to the obligee.
(b) Each employer that has directly received an income-withholding order.
(c) Except as provided in par. (d), the person designated to receive payments in the income-withholding order.
(d) If no person is designated to receive payments in the income-withholding order, the obligee.

Wis. Stat. ยง 769.506

Amended by Acts 2015 ch, 82,s 8, eff. 12/18/2015.
Amended by Acts 2015 ch, 82,s 7, eff. 12/18/2015.
1997 a. 27 ss. 5118 to 5120, 5125, 5126; 2009 a. 321.

Sub. (1) is amended 2009 Wis. Act 321 effective the date stated in the notice published in the Wisconsin Administrative Register under s. 769.904 to read:

(1) 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 subch. VI, or otherwise contesting the order in the same manner as if the order had been issued by a tribunal of this state. Section 769.604 applies to the contest.