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Tennessee Code Title 36. Domestic Relations § 36-5-2506

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<Section effective upon date to be designated by Tennessee Department of Human Services pursuant to 2010 Pub.Acts, c. 901, § 2.  See, also, section effective until said date.>

(a) 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 part 26, or otherwise contesting the order in the same manner as if the order had been issued by a tribunal of this state.

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

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

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

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

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