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<section article="gfl" article_name="Family Law" number="10-128" title_number="10" title_name="Support in General" subtitle_number="1" subtitle_name="Civil and Criminal Enforcement">
  <level label="a">
    <text>An earnings withholding order or an earnings withholding notice sent to the obligor’s employer shall:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>be a separate document, and not include any other orders or pleadings; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>include only the following information:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>the amount to be withheld from the obligor’s earnings including explanation of the application of the federal Consumer Credit Protection Act limits;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>that subject to further orders of the tribunal, the employer is required to withhold the stated amount on a regular and continuing basis commencing on the beginning of the next pay period after receipt of the earnings withholding order or the earnings withholding notice;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>that the employer may deduct and retain from the employee’s earnings an additional $2 for each deduction made under the earnings withholding order or earnings withholding notice;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>that the net amount withheld is to be sent promptly to the State disbursement unit; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="v">
        <text>any other information that the employer needs to comply with the earnings withholding order or earnings withholding notice.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>An earnings withholding order or earnings withholding notice is binding on each present and future employer of the obligor on whom a copy of the earnings withholding order or earnings withholding notice is served.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>Subject to federal law, an earnings withholding order or earnings withholding notice under this Part III of this subtitle has priority over any other lien or legal process.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>The copy of the earnings withholding order or earnings withholding notice served on the employer of the obligor shall contain a statement that upon willful violation of the earnings withholding order or earnings withholding notice the employer shall be subject to civil penalties.</text>
  </level>
</section>
