{"data":{"id":"us-ky/krs-15.802","jurisdiction":"us-ky","citation":"KRS 15.802","heading":"Duties of Department of Child Support Services -- Processing of child","body":"support payments -- State disbursement unit -- Cooperation with courts and\nofficials -- Reporting of obligors -- Denial, suspension, and revocation of\nlicenses -- Data match sys tem -- Subpoenas -- Distribution of child support\nprogram information.\n(1) The duties of the Department of Child Support Services within the Department of\nLaw, or its designee, shall include:\n(a) Serve as state agency authorized to administer Part D of Title IV of the Social\nSecurity Act, 42 U.S.C. secs. 651 to 669;\n(b) Serve as the information agency as provided in the Uniform Interstate Family\nSupport Act, KRS Chapter 407;\n(c) Serve as collector of all court -ordered or administratively o rdered child\nsupport payments pursuant to Part D of Title IV of the Social Security Act;\n(d) Serve as the agent for enforcement of international child support obligations,\nand respond to requests from foreign reciprocating countries;\n(e) Establish and enfo rce an obligation upon receipt of a completed, notarized\nvoluntary acknowledgment-of-paternity form;\n(f) Enforce Kentucky child support laws, including collection of court -ordered or\nadministratively ordered child support arrearages and prosecution of pers ons\nwho fail to pay child support;\n(g) Publicize the availability of services and encourage the use of these services\nfor establishing paternity and child support;\n(h) Pay the cost of genetic testing to establish paternity, subject to recoupment\nfrom the a lleged father, when paternity is administratively or judicially\ndetermined; and obtain additional testing when an original test is contested,\nupon request and advance payment by the contestant;\n(i) Establish child support obligations and seek modification of judicially or\nadministratively established child support obligations in accordance with the\nchild support guidelines of the Commonwealth of Kentucky as provided under\nKRS 403.212;\n(j) Administratively establish child support orders which shall have the same\nforce and effect of law;\n(k) Issue an administrative subpoena to secure public and private records of\nutility and cable companies and asset and liability information from financial\ninstitutions for the establishment, modification, or enforcement of a child\nsupport obligation;\n(l) Impose a penalty for failure to comply with an administrative subpoena;\n(m) Provide notices, copies of proceedings, and determinations of support\namounts to any parties or individuals who are applying for or receiving Title\nIV-D services, or who are parties to cases in which Title IV -D services are\nbeing provided; and\n(n) Issue interstate administrative subpoenas to any individual or entity for\nfinancial or ot her information or documents which are needed to establish,\nmodify, or enforce a child support obligation pursuant to Part D of Title IV of\nthe Social Security Act, 42 U.S.C. sec. 651 et seq. An administrative\nsubpoena lawfully issued in another state to a n individual or entity residing in\nthis state shall be honored and enforced in the Circuit Court where the\nindividual or entity resides.\n(2) The Department of Child Support Services within the Department of Law, or its\ndesignee, may promulgate administrati ve regulations to implement this section and\nadopt forms or implement other requirements of federal law relating to interstate\nadministrative subpoenas, and may amend forms by technical amendment that are\nmandated by the federal Office of Child Support Enf orcement and incorporated by\nreference in administrative regulation.\n(3) The Office of the Attorney General shall maintain a system to receive and process\nall child support payments. The system shall include existing computer systems to\nrecord the payments . The automated system shall include a state case registry that\ncontains records with respect to each case in which services are being provided by\nthe office and each child support order established or modified in the state.\n(4) The Office of the Attorney General shall establish and operate a state disbursement\nunit for the collection, disbursement, and recording of payments under support\norders for all Title IV -D cases and for all cases initially issued in the state in which\na wage withholding has been cou rt-ordered or administratively ordered, pursuant to\nPart D of Title IV of the Social Security Act. Establishment of the state unit may\ninclude the designation and continuation of existing local collection units to aid\nefficient and effective collection, di sbursement, and recording of child support\npayments.\n(5) After the establishment of the disbursement unit child support collection system, the\nOffice of the Attorney General or its designee shall serve as collector of all court -\nordered or administratively ordered child support payments pursuant to Part D of\nTitle IV of the Social Security Act.\n(6) Where establishment of paternity and enforcement and collection of child support is\nby law the responsibility of local officials, the Office of the Attorney Gener al shall\nrefer cases to the appropriate official for such action. The office may enter into\ncooperative arrangements with appropriate courts and law enforcement officials to\nassist the office in administering the program of child support recovery, includin g\nthe entering into of financial arrangements with such courts and officials as\nprovided for under the provisions of federal law and regulations. The local county\nattorney shall be considered the designee of the office for purposes of administering\nthe program of child support recovery within a county, subject to the option of the\ncounty attorney to decline such designation. Nothing in this section shall prevent\nthe Attorney General from taking such action, with prior written notice, as\nappropriate if the t erms and conditions of the cooperative agreement are not met.\nWhen a cooperative agreement with a contracting official is canceled for good\ncause, the office may not offer that cooperative agreement to that official during the\nofficial's tenure.\n(7) Where the local county attorney, friend of the court, domestic relations agent, or\nother designee of the Office of the Attorney General has been contracted for the\npurpose of administering child support enforcement pursuant to Title IV -D of the\nSocial Security A ct, the contracting official shall be deemed to be representing the\noffice and as such does not have an attorney -client relationship with the applicant\nwho has requested services pursuant to Title IV -D of the Social Security Act nor\nwith any dependent on behalf of the individuals for whom services are sought.\n(8) The Office of the Attorney General shall determine the name of each obligor who\nowes an arrearage of at least two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500). After\nnotification to the obligor owing an arrearage amount of two thousand five hundred\ndollars ($2,500), the office shall transmit to the United States secretary of health\nand human services the certified names of the individuals and supporting\ndocumentation for the denial, revocation, or limitation of the obligor's passport. The\noffice shall notify the identified obligor of the determination and the consequences\nand provide an opportunity to contest the determination.\n(9) The Office of the Attorney General shall determine the name of an obligor o wing\nan arrearage and shall indefinitely deny, suspend, or revoke a license or certification\nthat has been issued if the person has a child support arrearage that equals or\nexceeds the amount that would be owed after six (6) months of nonpayment or fails,\nafter receiving appropriate notice, to comply with subpoenas or warrants relating to\npaternity or child support proceedings as provided by 42 U.S.C. sec. 666(a)(16).\n(10) The Office of the Attorney General shall forward the name of the individual to a\nboard of licensure or board of certification for the notification of the denial,\nrevocation, or suspension of a driver's license, professional license or certification,\noccupational license or certification, recreational license, or sporting license.\n(11) The denial or suspension shall remain in effect until the child support arrearage has\nbeen eliminated or payments on the child support arrearage are being made in\naccordance with a court or administrative order, the person complies with the\nsubpoena or warrant relating to paternity or child support proceedings, or the appeal\nof the denial or suspension is upheld and the license is reinstated.\n(12) Except for cases administered by the Office of the Attorney General under 42\nU.S.C. sec. 651 et seq. which shall be  afforded the appeal process set forth by KRS\n405.450(3), an individual who has a license or certification denied, revoked, or\nsuspended shall have the right to appeal to the licensing or certifying board.\n(13) A dispute hearing shall be conducted by the O ffice of the Attorney General in\naccordance with KRS 405.450. The only basis for a dispute hearing shall be a\nmistake in fact.\n(14) The Office of the Attorney General shall in its discretion enter into agreements with\nfinancial institutions doing business in the Commonwealth to develop and operate,\nin coordination with the financial institutions, a data match system as required by\nKRS 15.844, 15.846, 15.848, and 15.850.\n(15) The Office of the Attorney General may issue both intrastate and interstate\nadministrative subpoenas to any individual or entity for financial or other\ninformation or documents that are needed to establish, modify, or enforce a child\nsupport obligation pursuant to Title IV -D of the Social Security Act, 42 U.S.C. sec.\n651 et seq. An admin istrative subpoena lawfully issued in another state to an\nindividual or entity in this state shall be honored and enforced in the Circuit Court\nof the county in which the individual or entity resides.\n(16) The Office of the Attorney General shall promulgat e administrative regulations in\naccordance with KRS Chapter 13A to implement KRS 15.055.\n(17) The Office of the Attorney General shall compare a quarterly report provided by the\nFinance and Administration Cabinet of all tort claims made against the state b y\nindividuals with the child support database to match individuals who have a child\nsupport arrearage and may receive a settlement from the state.\n(18) The Office of the Attorney General shall prepare and distribute to the office's\ndesignee for the adminis tration of the child support program information on child\nsupport collections and enforcement. The information shall include a description of\nhow child support obligations are:\n(a) Established;\n(b) Modified;\n(c) Enforced;\n(d) Collected; and\n(e) Distributed.\n(19) The Office of the Attorney General's designee for the administration of the child\nsupport program shall distribute, when appropriate, the following:\n(a) Information on child support collections and enforcement; and\n(b) Job listings posted by employment services.","path":["KRS Chapter 15"],"source_url":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/law/statutes/statute.aspx?id=56563","current_through":"Includes enactments through the 2026 Regular Session","vintage":"09/05/2026","retrieved_at":"2026-09-05T20:48:34Z","sha256":"c301dff53457b7e930bef5ec07fc16ac40c19c454bcc29aa827150ce628ca706","source_id":"us-ky","stale":false,"prev":"us-ky/krs-15.800","next":"us-ky/krs-15.804"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}