What does the division of child support (DCS) do when it decides that a case is an intergovernmental case?
Within twenty calendar days of completing the determinations required in WAC
388-14A-7700 and, if appropriate, receipt of any necessary information needed to process the case, the division of child support:
(1) Asks the appropriate intrastate tribunal, or refers the case to the appropriate responding state IV-D agency, for a determination of the controlling order and a reconciliation of arrearages if such a determination is necessary; and
(2) Refers any intergovernmental IV-D case to the appropriate state central registry, Tribal IV-D program, or central authority of a country for action, if one-state remedies are not appropriate.
[Statutory Authority: RCW
26.23.120,
34.05.350 (1)(b),
43.20A.550,
74.04.055,
74.08.090,
74.20.040(9),
74.20A.310 and 45 C.F.R. Parts 301.1, 302.36, 303.7, 303.11, 305.63, and 308.2. WSR 13-01-075, ยง 388-14A-7710, filed 12/18/12, effective 1/18/13.]