252E.4 - ORDER TO EMPLOYER.
252E.4 ORDER TO EMPLOYER.
1. When a support order requires an obligor to provide coverage
under a health benefit plan, the district court or the department may
enter an ex parte order directing an employer to take all actions
necessary to enroll an obligor's dependent for coverage under a
health benefit plan or may include the provisions in an ex parte
income withholding order or notice of income withholding pursuant to
chapter 252D. The child support recovery unit, where appropriate,
shall issue a national medical support notice to an employer within
two business days after the date information regarding a newly hired
employee is entered into the centralized employee registry and
matched with a noncustodial parent in the case being enforced by the
unit, or upon receipt of other employment information for such
parent. The department may amend the information in the ex parte
order or may amend or terminate the national medical support notice
regarding health insurance provisions if necessary to comply with
health insurance requirements including but not limited to the
provisions of section 252E.2, subsection 2, or to correct a mistake
of fact.
2. The obligee, district court, or department may forward either
the support order containing the provision for coverage under a
health benefit plan or the ex parte order provided for in subsection
1 to the obligor's employer.
3. This chapter shall be constructive notice to the obligor of
enforcement and further notice prior to enforcement is not required.
4. The order requiring coverage is binding on all future
employers or insurers if the dependent is eligible to be enrolled in
the health benefit plan under the applicable plan terms and
conditions. Section History: Recent Form
90 Acts, ch 1224, §28; 93 Acts, ch 78, §22; 96 Acts, ch 1141, §
24; 97 Acts, ch 175, § 74; 2002 Acts, ch 1018, §5; 2007 Acts, ch 218,
§166, 187; 2008 Acts, ch 1019, §18, 20
Referred to in § 252E.1, 252E.5, 252E.6A Footnotes
For transition provisions applicable to existing child support
recovery unit rules, procedures, definitions, and requirements, and
for nullification of 441 IAC rule 98.3, see 2007 Acts, ch 218, §186