Division Responsibility to Locate Parties

DCSS-POL-02-4 v.2

 

  1. OVERVIEW
  1. The purpose of this policy is to provide staff and members of the public a working knowledge of the Division of Child Support Services’ (DCSS) responsibility to obtain location information for noncustodial parents (NCPs) and/or custodial parents (CPs), as well as sources of income and/or assets.
  1. APPLICABILITY
  1. This policy applies to all Arizona IV-D program staff performing title IV-D services.
  1. POLICY
  1. The DCSS shall demonstrate diligent efforts to obtain information to locate parties and/or parties' assets in a Title IV-D child support case, as appropriate.
  1. CRITERIA
  1. When it is necessary to locate an absent party in a child support case, the DCSS shall make locate attempts in order to:
  1. Establish paternity
  2. Establish a child support order
  3. Enforce a child support order
  4. Modify a support order
  5. Cooperate with intergovernmental IV-D limited requests for location services
  1. The DCSS shall obtain information to locate a party when they are:
  1. Ordered to pay a child support obligation
  2. The recipient of a child support obligation

Any Arizona Title IV-D program staff that knowingly requests or obtains information for purposes other than to locate parties in subsections A and B is guilty of a class 1 misdemeanor.

  1. PROCEDURE
  1. This policy is supported by staff procedures, which identify how action related to this policy will be conducted, including responsibilities, time frames, and required actions.
  1. AUTHORITY
Federal Authority
466 U.S.C. § 666(c)(D) Requirement of statutorily prescribed procedures to improve effectiveness of child support enforcement
45 C.F.R. § 303.3 Location of noncustodial parents in IV-D cases
45 C.F.R. § 303.7(a)(8) Provision of services in intergovernmental IV-D cases

45 C.F.R. § 308.2(c)(3)(i)(ii)

Required program compliance criteria
State Authority
A.R.S. § 25-1247(B)(3) Duties of support enforcement agency

A.R.S. § 25-1250(B)(4)

Duties of department of economic security
A.R.S. § 25-513 Employer cooperation; violation; classification
A.R.S. § 41-1954(I)(L) Powers and duties

A.R.S. § 46-291(D)(E)(F)

Administration and notice; expenditure limitation; locating deserting parents and assets; violation; classification

A.R.S. § 46-443(C)

Child support case registry; location information; presumptions concerning notice

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Policy Revision Date: 11/21/2022
Policy Review Date: 11/18/2022

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