MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972
As Amended

SEC.  93-25-77. Contest by obligor.

(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 Sections 93-25-81 through 93-25-111, or otherwise contesting the order in the same manner as if the order had been issued by a tribunal of this state.  Section 93-25-87 * * * applies to the contest.

(2)  The obligor shall give notice of the contest to:

          (a)  A support enforcement agency providing services to the obligee;

          (b)  Each employer that has directly received an income-withholding order relating to the obligor; and

          (c)  The person * * * designated to receive payments in the income-withholding order, or if * * * no person or agency is designated, the obligee.

SOURCES:  1997 Laws, Chapter 588, Sec. 109, SB2164; Laws, 2004, ch. 406, § 27, SB 2851, eff from and after July 1, 2004.

PREVIOUS VERSIONS: Pre-2004


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