Printable Format23-3101. Title and purpose of act; severability. (a) K.S.A. 23-3101 through 23-3118 and 39-7,135, and amendments thereto, shall be known and may be cited as the income withholding act.
(b) The purpose of the income withholding act is to enhance the enforcement of all support obligations by providing a quick and effective procedure for withholding income to enforce orders of support and to provide children access to health coverage under their parents' health benefit plans.
(c) If any provision of this act or the application thereof to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the invalidity does not affect other provisions or applications of the act which can be given effect without the invalid provision or application, and to this end the provisions of this act are severable.
History: L. 1985, ch. 115, § 1; L. 1986, ch. 137, § 10; L. 1994, ch. 301, § 19; July 1.
Source or Prior Law:
23-4,105.
Cross References to Related Sections:
Medical child support orders, see 23-3114 et seq.
Health benefit plans, see 40-2256.
Law Review and Bar Journal References:
"Criminal Nonsupport Of A Child: Father Figure v. Felon Figure," Linda Barnes-Pointer and Mitchell B. Taylor, J.K.T.L.A. Vol. XVIII, No. 6, 12, 19 (1995).
Attorney General's Opinions:
Garnishment of earnings of public officers and employees—enforcement of support; payors' duties. 88-129.
Administrative procedures; separation of powers doctrine considered. 97-39.
CASE ANNOTATIONS
1. Cited; motion to stay service of withholding order as making procedure for order by affidavit inapplicable examined. Bair v. Bair, 242 Kan. 629, 635, 750 P.2d 994 (1988).