Section 4945.

(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 Article 6 (commencing with Section 4950), 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 all of the following:

(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.

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

(Amended by Stats. 2002, Ch. 349, Sec. 31. Effective January 1, 2003. Operative July 1, 2004, or later, upon federal government action specified in Sec. 47 of Ch. 349.)