SettleADebt R023 PASS-01
U.S. federal Title IV-D child-support arrears, review and adjustment, and nonretroactivity
The central distinction is between a federal requirement governing state law or program administration and a legally effective change to a particular support obligation. The selected federal provisions require states to protect due installments as judgments and to provide specified review and adjustment procedures. A review request, changed circumstances, or a program review does not itself establish that an obligation has changed. The pending-petition exception also requires legally sufficient notice to the specified opposing party. Claims C001–C004, C014–C024, and C028–C037 below state the conditions. uscode.house.gov+3
Scope and access record
This report addresses only the selected federal state-plan framework. It makes no individualized determination about support, eligibility, liability, ownership of arrears, notice, jurisdiction, or entitlement to modification.
Actual access date: October 27, 2026, America/Los_Angeles. Clock checks during the research session corresponded to 16:28:07 and 16:43:39 PDT. All source reads and retrieval failures reported below occurred on that access date.
The final retrieved eCFR pages for the selected provisions displayed currency through October 26, 2026, with Title 45 last amended October 6, 2026. The principal U.S. Code pages stated that they contained laws in effect through Public Law 119-124, October 15, 2026. The successfully retrieved §608 page had the narrower Public Law 119-120, October 7, 2026 predicate. These are compilation predicates, not a complete amendment, session-law, judicial-history, stay, or vacatur audit. ecfr.gov+5
No prior conversation or Library report supplied the research foundation. No person, family, employer, account, property, party, case record, docket status, or other identifying entry was searched or created. No subagents, filing, contact, records request, locator service, or operational action was used.
Reading convention: Full IDs appear in the tables. Later references such as C017, S007, B006, and E001 refer to the corresponding R023-P1- table entries. Source formats and sections are grouped by instrument; multiple representations of one instrument are not independent corroboration.
1. Substantive findings and atomic claim table
The following tables are the substantive findings. Each row identifies the proposition, its material conditions or limits, and the exact supporting provision or official interpretation.
1A. Program role, applicability, definitions, and classification
| Claim ID |
Finding, conditions, and limits |
Authority and interpretive status |
| R023-P1-C001 |
State-plan structure. The plan must operate throughout the state, have a designated separate administrative unit, and provide for the required state laws and implementation procedures. These are obligations concerning the state’s program and legal framework. |
S001, 42 U.S.C. §654(1), (3), (20); S005, 45 C.F.R. §302.70(a), opening text. Statute and regulation. uscode.house.gov+2 |
| R023-P1-C002 |
Relevant services. Section 654(4)(A) covers establishing parentage and establishing, modifying, or enforcing child-support obligations, as appropriate, for its specified assistance-related categories and for other children upon application. The assistance-related route expressly preserves good-cause and other exceptions; the application clause contains separate foreign-country qualifications, which are not applied here. |
S001, §654(4)(A)(i)–(ii), with §654(29) read for the exception context. No individual eligibility determination. uscode.house.gov+1 |
| R023-P1-C003 |
Non-assistance does not mean non-IV-D. The regulations include application-based services, specified Medicaid recipients, and continuation routes after assistance ends. They also recognize medical-support-only requests and a state option for intrastate paternity-only services. Actual IV-D status and the services being provided cannot be inferred merely from whether assistance is currently received. |
S005, §302.33(a)(1)–(6); S001, §654(25). Current regulatory text; individual service facts remain held. ecfr.gov+1 |
| R023-P1-C004 |
Program requirement versus individual result. A requirement to maintain or use review procedures does not establish that a particular tribunal has modified an order. This report also does not decide whether any provision supplies a private cause of action or a particular remedy for program noncompliance. |
S001, §§654(20), 666(a)(10); S006, §303.8(b)(4), (e). The distinction is a bounded inference from the required procedures and their specified possible outcomes. uscode.house.gov+2 |
| R023-P1-C005 |
Judicial and administrative routes. Federal law addresses expedited administrative and judicial procedures. A guidelines review may occur before a court, through a quasi-judicial process, or before an administrative body or agency. The selected law does not require every modification to proceed through the same kind of tribunal nationwide. |
S001, §666(a)(2); S006, §303.8(b)(4)(i); S008, review-and-adjustment response 1, 68 FR 25298, PDF index 5. uscode.house.gov+2 |
| R023-P1-C006 |
No general caseworker exception to these two requirements. The case-specific “inappropriate procedure” language at the end of §666(a) lists paragraphs (3), (4), (6), (7), and (15), not paragraphs (9) and (10). Section 302.70(b) likewise does not list its judgment/nonretroactivity or review provisions. That language therefore cannot simply be invoked as a general hardship exception to these requirements. |
S001, §666(a), concluding paragraph; S005, §302.70(b). Textual comparison; distinct Secretary-granted exemptions are addressed in C007. uscode.house.gov+1 |
| R023-P1-C007 |
Separate program exemptions exist, but none is assumed. Section 666(d) permits a Secretary-granted exemption based on demonstrated program effectiveness and efficiency. Section 302.70(d) requires supporting data, limits a grant to at most five years, provides continuing review and possible termination, and requires an extension request 90 days before expiration. Its paragraph (d)(5) specifies implementation periods following revocation or denied extension, including a legislative-session predicate and a separate no-legislation rule following revocation. These are program provisions, not an established individual waiver of arrears. |
S001, §666(d), also §666(a)(2)’s subdivision waiver; S005, §302.70(d)(1)–(5), read completely. No actual exemption, extension, revocation, or compliance date was investigated. uscode.house.gov+2 |
| R023-P1-C008 |
Support-order definition. For Title IV-D, §653(p) includes a temporary, final, or modifiable judgment, decree, or order of a competent court or administrative agency for a child—including a child who has reached the issuing state’s age of majority—or the parent with whom the child lives. It can address monetary support, health care, arrears, or reimbursement and can include specified related relief. This definition does not turn every family transfer or agreement into a support order. |
S001, §653(p), complete definition. Definition only; no locator-service use. uscode.house.gov |
| R023-P1-C009 |
Arrears terminology is provision-specific. Section 666(e)’s “overdue support” concerns delinquency under a court or state administrative order for a minor child, with limited spousal coverage; a state may extend its nonminor-child option independently for each covered procedure. Section 301.1 separately defines “past-due support” as ordered child support, or child-and-co-resident-parent support, that remains unpaid. Its expressly historical tax-offset qualification through September 30, 2007 is not treated as a current general definition. |
S001, §666(e); S004, §301.1 definitions of overdue support and past-due support. No enforcement or offset conclusion. uscode.house.gov+1 |
| R023-P1-C010 |
Spousal support is not interchangeable with child support. Section 654(4)(B) reaches established support for a child receiving services or that child’s custodial parent. Section 301.1’s spousal-support definition has a co-resident-child condition. Most importantly for this pass, §303.8 defines adjustment as affecting only the order’s child-support provisions. Standalone alimony and divorce-property modification rules remain outside this component. |
S001, §654(4)(B); S004, §301.1, spousal-support definition; S006, §303.8(b)(4)(ii). uscode.house.gov+2 |
| R023-P1-C011 |
Ordinary family loans, gifts, and property settlements remain unclassified here. A family relationship, written promise, or divorce setting alone does not establish the child-support-order predicate used by the selected rules. No conclusion about the enforceability, ownership, or characterization of a private obligation follows from this federal component. |
S001, §§653(p), 666(a)(9); S006, §303.8(b)(4)(ii). Scope inference; private and state-law classification remains held. uscode.house.gov+2 |
| R023-P1-C012 |
No order supplied is not proof that no obligation exists. The due-installment rule requires an installment under a child-support order. Separately, assigned-support provisions contemplate an amount determined under state legal processes when no court order exists; §302.50 also recognizes administrative orders and, except for the specified medical assignment category, other state legal process such as a binding agreement. None of this proves that an unidentified obligation exists or that a private loan qualifies. |
S001, §656(a)(1)–(2); S005, §302.50(a)–(b); S006, §303.106(a). State legal-process and underlying-document facts unresolved. uscode.house.gov+2 |
| R023-P1-C013 |
Three applicability boundaries must remain separate. The judgment/nonretroactivity requirement refers to installments under any child-support order. The periodic-review requirement expressly concerns an order being enforced under IV-D. The guidelines presumption applies to any judicial or administrative child-support award proceeding. Unknown IV-D status therefore does not justify either applying every IV-D service rule or disregarding every selected federal requirement. |
S001, §§666(a)(9), (a)(10)(A)(i), 667(b)(2); S005–S006, §§302.56(f), 303.8(b)(1), 303.106. Provision-specific comparison, not a universal IV-D/non-IV-D rule. uscode.house.gov+3 |
1B. Due installments, the complete exception, and distinct kinds of change
C014–C019 together cover the complete operative content of §666(a)(9), including its proviso, and §303.106(a)–(b). They should be read together.
| Claim ID |
Finding, conditions, and limits |
Authority and interpretive status |
| R023-P1-C014 |
The due date is the judgment event. Required state procedures must give each payment or installment under a child-support order judgment status on and after its due date, with the force, effect, attributes, and enforceability of a state judgment. The statute expressly includes judicial orders and orders through the referenced expedited processes. Judgment status does not itself prove that the installment remains unpaid. |
S001, §666(a)(9), opening and (A); S005, §302.70(a)(9)(i); S006, §303.106(a)(1). uscode.house.gov+1 |
| R023-P1-C015 |
Full faith and credit is part of that requirement. The installment judgment must be entitled to full faith and credit in the issuing state and other states. This does not eliminate the necessary recognition and jurisdiction predicates addressed separately by the selected portion of 28 U.S.C. §1738B. |
S001, §666(a)(9)(B); S006, §303.106(a)(2); S003, §1738B(a)–(c). See C062–C064 for the bounded interstate treatment. uscode.house.gov+2 |
| R023-P1-C016 |
The prohibition reaches both states. Required procedures must prohibit retroactive modification of the due installment by the state itself or another state, subject to the specific pending-petition proviso. A later disagreement with the original amount is not, by itself, an exception stated in this provision. |
S001, §666(a)(9)(C) and proviso; S006, §303.106(a)(3), (b). uscode.house.gov+1 |
| R023-P1-C017 |
Both pendency and notice matter. State procedures may permit modification for a period during which a modification petition is pending, but the permitted period cannot begin before notice of that petition has been given as required. A pending petition without qualifying notice does not establish the exception for the pre-notice period. |
S001, §666(a)(9), complete proviso; S006, §303.106(b). No actual petition, notice, or installment period is assumed. uscode.house.gov+1 |
| R023-P1-C018 |
The required recipient changes with the petitioner. Notice must be given to the obligee, directly or through the appropriate agent; if the obligee is the petitioner, notice must instead be given to the obligor. Knowledge of hardship, incarceration, or a general desire for review is not automatically notice of the modification petition. |
S001, §666(a)(9), proviso; S006, §303.106(b). The final sentence is a scope inference from the required subject of notice. uscode.house.gov+1 |
| R023-P1-C019 |
The exception permits; it does not command. Satisfying the federal petition-and-notice boundary does not compel a state to grant a modification, adopt a particular effective date, or reduce support. State law, tribunal authority, the grounds for modification, and the legally effective disposition remain necessary. |
S001, §666(a)(9), permissive proviso; S006, §§303.106(b), 303.8. Textual inference about the limit of federal permission. uscode.house.gov+2 |
| R023-P1-C020 |
“Notice given” is not a universal mailing, filing, receipt, or personal-service rule. The 1989 agency interpretation ties the notice event to state service, personal-jurisdiction, and due-process rules. Filing and qualifying notice can coincide, but filing alone does not establish that they did. Mail or another method may suffice where legally sufficient; actual personal service may be required under the applicable state rule. |
S007, response 18, 54 FR 15763–15764, PDF indices 7–8. Official preamble interpretation, not a substitute for current state law. archives.federalregister.gov |
| R023-P1-C021 |
A review request cannot automatically be treated as the exception’s start date. The 2016 preamble’s response 13 first states the pending-petition and notice conditions, then discusses modification back to a request date. That shorthand must be read subject to the statute and regulation. Whether a particular review request constitutes or initiates the required petition under state procedure remains unresolved. |
S013, §303.8 response 13, 81 FR 93539, PDF index 47; S001/S006, §666(a)(9), §303.106(b). Express interpretive reconciliation. govinfo.gov+2 |
| R023-P1-C022 |
The restriction is not limited to reductions. The 1989 interpretation applies the petition-and-notice boundary to an obligee’s requested upward modification as well. No assumption should be made that a later increase can rewrite all earlier installments. |
S007, response 15, 54 FR 15763, PDF index 7; S001, §666(a)(9). archives.federalregister.gov+1 |
| R023-P1-C023 |
Prospective change is a separate inquiry. The 1989 interpretation recognizes prospective modification and possible prospective effects of state law upon specified events. The current incarceration notice rule also recognizes a comparable state law or rule operating upon incarceration. Whether an installment ever became due in the asserted amount under the operative order and applicable law is distinct from reducing an amount that already became due. |
S007, responses 9–12, 54 FR 15761–15762, PDF indices 5–6; S006, §303.8(b)(7)(ii). The last distinction is an inference; no state automatic-change rule is established here. archives.federalregister.gov+2 |
| R023-P1-C024 |
No automatic federal suspension or erasure follows from the listed life events. Income loss, unemployment, incarceration, custody change, age, or a hardship explanation may raise a modification or applicability question. The selected provisions do not make any of those facts, standing alone, a nationwide cancellation of due installments or a completed prospective adjustment. |
S001, §666(a)(9)–(10); S005–S006, §§302.56(c), 303.8. Synthesis, subject to the state-law possibilities in C023. uscode.house.gov+2 |
| R023-P1-C025 |
Accounting correction is different from changing the obligation. The 1989 agency response expressly permits correction of improperly calculated arrears. It does not identify every contested entry as an error or determine which state actor can correct a particular ledger or judgment. |
S007, response 11, 54 FR 15762, PDF index 6. Official interpretation; proof and correction procedure remain open. archives.federalregister.gov |
| R023-P1-C026 |
Collected support must be credited in the assigned-obligation framework. Section 656(a)(3) requires amounts collected under the plan to reduce the specified obligation dollar for dollar; §302.50(d) similarly addresses collected support payments. This does not decide whether an alleged direct payment, gift, in-kind contribution, or transfer qualifies as support or how it is allocated. |
S001, §656(a)(3); S005, §302.50(d), with (e)’s medical-allocation limitation read. No actual payment or accounting conclusion. uscode.house.gov+1 |
| R023-P1-C027 |
Program case closure does not itself extinguish the order. The 2016 preamble distinguishes closing IV-D services from changing the underlying support order and its installments. This pass does not analyze or recommend any closure criterion. |
S013, §303.8 response 14, 81 FR 93539, index 47; §303.11 response 5, 81 FR 93541, index 49. Official interpretation used only for this distinction. govinfo.gov+1 |
1C. Ordinary review, notification, processing, and guidelines
| Claim ID |
Finding, conditions, and limits |
Authority and interpretive status |
| R023-P1-C028 |
Ordinary cycle and qualifying paths. For an order being enforced under IV-D, §303.8(b)(1) specifies a cycle within 36 months after establishment or the most recent review, or a shorter state cycle. The trigger is a Part A assignment or either parent’s request, with the child’s best interests considered. For requesting review, “parent” also includes another person or entity with standing. The assignment path is not stated for every possible type of assignment. |
S001, §666(a)(10)(A)(i); S006, §303.8(a), (b)(1); S012, 73 FR 74916 and 74920, indices 18 and 22. uscode.house.gov+3 |
| R023-P1-C029 |
Three authorized cycle methods. The statutory alternatives are a guidelines review with adjustment when appropriate; a cost-of-living adjustment using a state-developed formula; or automated methods to identify, review, and appropriately adjust eligible orders under any applicable state threshold. These alternatives do not establish that every order receives an immediate individual recalculation. |
S001, §666(a)(10)(A)(i)(I)–(III); S006, §303.8(b)(1)(i)–(iii). uscode.house.gov+1 |
| R023-P1-C030 |
No change-of-circumstances showing for the ordinary cycle. The statute removes that proof requirement for adjustments under its cycle clause. The regulation expressly repeats the rule for its guidelines-review path. Appropriate adjustment and applicable guidelines remain necessary. |
S001, §666(a)(10)(A)(iii); S006, §303.8(b)(5); S008, response 4, 68 FR 25298–25299, indices 5–6. uscode.house.gov+2 |
| R023-P1-C031 |
Out-of-cycle requests have a different condition. Outside the three-year or shorter state cycle, the state must have procedures to review on request and adjust under the guidelines if the requesting party demonstrates a substantial change in circumstances. The selected federal text does not supply a comprehensive state-specific definition of substantial change. |
S001, §666(a)(10)(B); S006, §303.8(b)(6). uscode.house.gov+1 |
| R023-P1-C032 |
Thresholds concern adjustment grounds. A state may establish a reasonable dollar threshold, percentage threshold, or both for determining whether a post-review difference supplies grounds to petition for adjustment. Current §303.8(c) does not confine that option to automated reviews and prohibits excluding incarceration as a basis. A threshold is not permission to replace the review with an unsupported assumption. |
S006, §303.8(c); S009, 69 FR 77659–77661, indices 0–2; S010, 71 FR 29591–29592, indices 1–2. ecfr.gov+2 |
| R023-P1-C033 |
COLA/automated adjustment contest. Either party must be able to contest an adjustment made by either of those methods by requesting a guidelines review within 30 days after the date of notice of the adjustment. The provision says “days,” not “business days.” It is not established here as the deadline for every appeal or every kind of modification proceeding. |
S001, §666(a)(10)(A)(ii); S006, §303.8(b)(3). uscode.house.gov+1 |
| R023-P1-C034 |
Recurring notice of the review right. Both parents must receive notice at least once every three years, explaining the right to request review and appropriate adjustment and specifying where and how to request it. Putting the initial notice in the order does not discharge the continuing notice obligation. |
S001, §666(a)(10)(C); S006, §303.8(b)(7)(i); S008, response 3, 68 FR 25298, index 5. ecfr.gov+1 |
| R023-P1-C035 |
The ordinary completion clock has a later-event trigger. Within 180 calendar days after receiving a review request or locating the nonrequesting parent, whichever is later, the state must review and either adjust the order or determine that adjustment should not occur. It is not a universal 180-day clock from income loss, incarceration, a conversation, or the order’s anniversary. |
S006, §303.8(e); S008, operative text, 68 FR 25304, index 11. ecfr.gov+1 |
| R023-P1-C036 |
Bounded timing gap for a review with no request. Section 303.8(b)(2) permits agency initiation without a specific request, while paragraph (e) states its clock through request receipt and locating the nonrequesting parent. The selected text does not expressly supply a separate start event for every no-request agency-initiated review. No nationwide substitute clock is invented here. |
S006, §303.8(b)(2), (e); S013, relevant §303.8 discussion, 81 FR 93537–93538, indices 45–46. Unresolved interpretive/application branch. ecfr.gov+1 |
| R023-P1-C037 |
Proceeding and outcome notices are separate. Section 654(12) requires procedures for notifying covered applicants, recipients, and parties to IV-D cases of proceedings that may establish or modify support. It also requires a copy of the resulting order—or, for a modification petition, notice of a no-change determination—within 14 days after issuance. It does not say 14 business days. |
S001, §654(12)(A)–(B), complete clause. The order/determination issuance event is distinct from a review request or an incarceration notice. uscode.house.gov |
| R023-P1-C038 |
Health-care needs can independently justify initiating adjustment. Section 303.8(d) requires the need to provide for the child’s health care in the order to be an adequate state-law basis to initiate adjustment even when changing the cash-support amount is unnecessary. Actual coverage, medical-support responsibility, and eligibility remain held. |
S006, §303.8(d), with (b)(4); S005, §302.56(c)(2). ecfr.gov+1 |
| R023-P1-C039 |
Guidelines supply a presumption, not a self-executing replacement order. States must establish a set of guidelines for setting and modifying amounts. The guideline amount is presumptively correct in judicial or administrative proceedings. Rebuttal requires the specified written or on-record finding under state criteria; the regulation requires attention to the child’s best interests and a statement of the guideline amount and reason for departure. |
S001, §667(a)–(c); S005, §302.56(a), (b), (d), (f)–(g). uscode.house.gov+1 |
| R023-P1-C040 |
Four-year guidelines review is a policy-review obligation. States must review their guidelines at least every four years and revise them when appropriate. The regulation also requires publication of the reviewing body’s reports and membership, the guidelines’ effective date, and the next review date. That process does not itself modify each existing order. |
S001, §667(a); S005, §302.56(e). The last sentence distinguishes policy review from the order-specific process. uscode.house.gov+1 |
| R023-P1-C041 |
Ability to pay matters to guidelines. The federal minimum requires consideration of the noncustodial parent’s earnings, income, and other evidence of ability to pay, including all earnings and income. Considering the custodial parent’s income under this clause is left to state discretion. No personal income finding follows. |
S005, §302.56(c)(1), (i). ecfr.gov |
| R023-P1-C042 |
Limited ability to pay requires a subsistence consideration. Guidelines must account for the noncustodial parent’s basic subsistence needs through a low-income adjustment, such as a reserve or another state-selected method. Consideration of the custodial parent’s and children’s subsistence needs under this clause is discretionary. The federal rule does not supply a uniform national award. |
S005, §302.56(c)(1)(ii), (c)(4). ecfr.gov |
| R023-P1-C043 |
Income imputation is conditional and individualized. If authorized, it must consider known circumstances, including assets, residence, employment and earnings history, skills, education, literacy, age, health, criminal record and other employment barriers, work-search history, the local labor market, employers’ willingness to hire, prevailing local earnings, and other relevant background. State discretion concerning the custodial parent remains. |
S005, §302.56(c)(1)(iii), complete material factor list. No imputed income or employability finding is made. ecfr.gov |
| R023-P1-C044 |
Guidelines review also has evidence and participation requirements. Paragraph (h) addresses economic and labor-market data, effects on families below 200 percent of the federal poverty level, specified order and payment data, meaningful public input including low-income parents, and the IV-D agency’s views. These are requirements for reviewing the guidelines, not an individual eligibility threshold or automatic recalculation. |
S005, §302.56(h)(1)–(3), read completely. ecfr.gov |
| R023-P1-C045 |
Establishing or modifying support requires a factual basis through state process. Section 303.4(b) requires reasonable factual development, earnings/income information or available individual circumstances when that information is insufficient, a corresponding basis for the obligation or recommendation, and documentation. An agency recommendation and an effective modified obligation remain distinct. |
S006, §303.4, opening and (b)(1)–(4), (c). The separate establishment provision in (d) is not used as a modification deadline. ecfr.gov |
1D. Incarceration and changed circumstances
| Claim ID |
Finding, conditions, and limits |
Authority and interpretive status |
| R023-P1-C046 |
Incarceration cannot be treated as voluntary unemployment under the selected guidelines rule. The current §302.56(c)(3) states this for establishing and modifying support orders. It is a guidelines requirement, not a declaration that every incarcerated parent has no income or assets. |
S005, §302.56(c)(3), read with (c)(1). ecfr.gov |
| R023-P1-C047 |
The amount still requires the proper inquiry. Incarceration status, ability to pay, eligibility for a special review path, and an actual adjustment are separate questions. The rule cannot be converted into either automatic zero support or an automatic refusal to consider incarceration. |
S005–S006, §§302.56(c)(1), (3), 303.8(b)(2), (c); S013, §303.8 response 16, 81 FR 93539–93540, indices 47–48. Synthesis. ecfr.gov+2 |
| R023-P1-C048 |
Optional agency-initiated path. A state may elect in its plan to initiate review after learning that a noncustodial parent will be incarcerated for more than 180 calendar days, without a specific request. Upon notice to both parents, it reviews and adjusts if appropriate under the guidelines route. The election and notice are material conditions. |
S006, §303.8(b)(2); S013, operative amendment, 81 FR 93564, index 72. ecfr.gov |
| R023-P1-C049 |
Mandatory notice where that option was not elected. Subject to C050, if the state has not elected paragraph (b)(2), it must notify both parents of the right to request review within 15 business days after the IV-D agency learns of incarceration exceeding 180 calendar days. The notice must state at least where and how to request review. This is a notice deadline; it does not require a completed modification within 15 business days. |
S006, §303.8(b)(7)(ii). The 2016 response 5’s process shorthand does not change the codified notice requirement. S013, 81 FR 93537–93538, indices 45–46. ecfr.gov+1 |
| R023-P1-C050 |
Comparable-state-law exception. Under paragraph (b)(7)(ii), neither that notice nor a review is required under that paragraph when a comparable state law or rule modifies the obligation upon incarceration by operation of state law. Comparability and the state law’s actual operation cannot be assumed. The exception is not a general repeal of all review requirements. |
S006, §303.8(b)(7)(ii), final sentence; S013, §303.8 response 18, 81 FR 93540, index 48. ecfr.gov+1 |
| R023-P1-C051 |
The special incarceration threshold is tied to agency learning. The 2016 agency response explains the threshold using the incarceration period remaining when the agency learns of it, rather than relying only on the original sentence length. No dates or sentence calculations are supplied here. |
S013, §303.8 response 6, 81 FR 93538, index 46. Official interpretation of both (b)(2) and (b)(7)(ii). govinfo.gov |
| R023-P1-C052 |
Special-path scope does not eliminate ordinary review. The preamble distinguishes confinement in jail or a penitentiary from parole or supervised release for the special incarceration provision. Failure to satisfy that special path does not establish ineligibility for the ordinary substantial-change route. Particular pretrial, release, or confinement classifications are not adjudicated here. |
S013, §303.8 responses 3 and 7, 81 FR 93537–93538, indices 45–46; S006, §303.8(b)(6). govinfo.gov+2 |
| R023-P1-C053 |
Release-related review is encouraged, without a parallel universal notice clock in these provisions. Response 10 encourages review after release and cautions against automatic reinstatement of an old amount that may no longer reflect ability to pay. That discussion is agency guidance; it does not supply a newly codified nationwide release deadline. |
S013, §303.8 response 10, 81 FR 93539, index 47; current S006, §303.8. govinfo.gov+1 |
1E. Ownership, compromise, interest, and debt-management distinctions
| Claim ID |
Finding, conditions, and limits |
Authority and interpretive status |
| R023-P1-C054 |
An assignment matters to whom the obligation is owed. Section 656(a)(1) treats the specified assigned support rights, or rights secured for a child receiving foster-care maintenance, as an obligation to the state. State collection activity alone does not establish that every amount in an account belongs to the state. |
S001, §656(a)(1); S004–S005, §§301.1, 302.50(a). Actual assignment and component ownership remain held. uscode.house.gov+2 |
| R023-P1-C055 |
The retrieved Part A assignment provision has limits. The §608(a)(3) text obtained requires assignment of specified support rights accruing during assistance, limited by total assistance paid. It does not justify assuming assignment of every pre-assistance or later arrear. Historical assignments, transition rules, distribution rules, and the narrower October 7 compilation predicate remain unresolved. |
S002, §608(a)(3), complete clause, version through P.L. 119-120. This row is expressly version-bounded. uscode.house.gov |
| R023-P1-C056 |
Compromise is distinguished from retroactive rewriting. The 1989 agency interpretation recognizes that support judgments may be compromised or satisfied through specific party agreement on the grounds available for other judgments under state law. This is not a federal entitlement to forgiveness or a rule that any agreement changes an order. |
S007, response 14, 54 FR 15762–15763, indices 6–7. Official preamble interpretation. archives.federalregister.gov |
| R023-P1-C057 |
Assigned arrears require attention to the state’s rights. The same interpretation requires state-assignee approval before the obligee and obligor compromise assigned arrears. The 2016 discussion attributes discretion over state-assigned arrears to the state’s financial interest. Neither passage establishes a particular state official’s authority or requires compromise. |
S007, response 14; S013, §302.33 response 2, 81 FR 93509, index 17. State-law authority and required approvals remain open. archives.federalregister.gov+1 |
| R023-P1-C058 |
Family-owed arrears cannot be treated as freely disposable state debt. The 2016 agency response says unassigned debt may be settled through a specific agreement at the custodial parent’s discretion and cannot be compromised or removed by the state without that agreement. Consent is not established here as sufficient by itself: state law may require tribunal endorsement and may protect additional rights. |
S013, §303.11 response 5, 81 FR 93541, index 49; S007, response 14, court/administrative-endorsement qualification. govinfo.gov+1 |
| R023-P1-C059 |
Interest authority is unresolved. Section 653(p) permits interest to be included within a support order’s related relief; that definition does not establish a universal interest rate, universal accrual rule, or universal power to waive interest. The sources obtained do not resolve ownership and compromise authority for every interest component. |
S001, §653(p); S007/S013, bounded compromise discussions. State interest law, assignment, judgment terms, and approval authority require separate investigation. uscode.house.gov+2 |
| R023-P1-C060 |
Mixed balances require separate legal classification. State-assigned principal, family-owed principal, interest, and other additions must not be treated as one legally homogeneous claim merely because a program administers them together. This is a research safeguard derived from the distinct assignment and consent rules, not an assertion about an actual balance. |
S001, §§653(p), 656(a); S007, response 14; S013, §303.11 response 5. Express inference. uscode.house.gov+3 |
| R023-P1-C061 |
Debt-management discretion is not assumed to change principal. A collection-policy decision, payment arrangement, or program closure must be distinguished from an authorized compromise, a corrected accounting, and a legally effective modification. This pass establishes no nationwide individual right to a payment plan, compromise, interest waiver, or particular exercise of collection discretion. |
S006, §303.106; S007, responses 11 and 14; S013, §303.11 response 5. Bounded synthesis; debt-management and enforcement procedures remain held. ecfr.gov+2 |
1F. Interstate, duration, and tribal boundaries
| Claim ID |
Finding, conditions, and limits |
Authority and interpretive status |
| R023-P1-C062 |
Interstate review requires legal authority to adjust. Section 303.8(f) assigns the review and adjustment to the state with that authority and identifies the reviewing state’s applicable review procedures and guidelines. It does not itself select the controlling order or confer authority despite other jurisdictional limits. |
S006, §303.8(f)(1)–(2); S003, §1738B(a), (d)–(f), (i). No forum or controlling order is selected. ecfr.gov+1 |
| R023-P1-C063 |
The necessary FFCCSOA predicate includes jurisdiction and notice. Section 1738B requires recognition of orders made consistently with its conditions, including subject-matter and personal jurisdiction and reasonable notice and opportunity to be heard. Modification is separately limited by the statute. A full UIFSA/FFCCSOA analysis is not undertaken. |
S003, §1738B(a)–(c), with modification and recognition provisions read for context. S001, §666(f), read only to identify the UIFSA implementation requirement. uscode.house.gov+1 |
| R023-P1-C064 |
Age and duration cannot be resolved by a national-age assumption. The selected definitions contemplate child-support orders extending beyond majority under applicable law. Section 1738B(h)(2) assigns interpretation of an order, including duration, to the issuing state’s law. A custody or age event therefore requires the operative order and governing law; it is not automatic federal erasure of arrears. |
S001, §653(p); S003, §1738B(b), (h)(2); C016 and C023. uscode.house.gov+1 |
| R023-P1-C065 |
Tribal applicability remains open. Section 301.1’s state-program definition of “State” and §1738B’s definition, which includes Indian country, serve different instruments. The 2016 rule says its substantive changes generally concern state IV-D programs, with only limited technical tribal changes. These facts do not justify importing every state-program review clock into a tribal program. |
S004, §301.1; S003, §1738B(b); S013, 81 FR 93493, index 1. Part 309 retrieval failures are recorded below. ecfr.gov+2 |
2. Version, effectiveness, and later-change findings
These are additional atomic claims. Effective date, compliance date, codification date, access date, and a particular state’s implementation date are separate concepts.
| Claim ID |
Instrument and verified predicate |
Status and limit |
| R023-P1-C066 |
1986 statute / 1989 implementing rule. The Code’s §9103(b) note identifies October 21, 1986 as the statutory amendment’s effective date. Where HHS determined state legislation necessary, the specified plan-compliance protection ran until the beginning of the fourth month after the first legislative session ending on or after enactment; “session” includes regular, special, budget, or other sessions. The 1989 final rule was effective April 19, 1989. |
S001, §666 effective-date note; S007, 54 FR 15758, index 2. Historical predicates; no application to historical installments is decided. uscode.house.gov+1 |
| R023-P1-C067 |
2003 final rule. Effective June 11, 2003, it supplies the codification history for the review definition, recurring notice, and the 180-calendar-day disposition provision. Its response 2 explains removal of an older 15-day decision-whether-to-review requirement. |
S008, 68 FR 25293, 25298, 25303–25304; indices 0, 5, 10–11. Historical text used only where checked against current text. The removed requirement is distinct from the later incarceration notice rule. govinfo.gov+1 |
| R023-P1-C068 |
Quantitative-threshold correction. The December 28, 2004 interim final rule removed the restriction tying §303.8(c) to automated review, effective that day. The May 23, 2006 final rule adopted it without change, effective May 23, 2006. |
S009, 69 FR 77659–77661, indices 0–2; S010, 71 FR 29590–29592, indices 0–2. The narrower 2003 wording is historical, not the current rule. govinfo.gov+1 |
| R023-P1-C069 |
Part A assignment path amended by Congress. P.L. 109-171 §7302 removed the additional request language from the assigned-case cycle provision, effective October 1, 2007. The retrieved SSA reproduction retains the older language at the disputed passage. |
S011, §7302(a)–(b), 120 Stat. 145, PDF index 142; S001, current §666(a)(10); S016, discrepancy source only. The current Code, enacted amendment, and current regulation govern this report’s reading. govinfo.gov+2 |
| R023-P1-C070 |
2008 regulatory implementation. The final rule, effective February 9, 2009, codified the 36-month establishment/most-recent-review anchor and the Part A assignment-or-parent-request wording. |
S012, 73 FR 74898, 74916, 74920; indices 0, 18, 22. The regulation’s effective date does not replace the earlier statutory effective date in C069. govinfo.gov+2 |
| R023-P1-C071 |
2016 general dates. The selected 45 C.F.R. changes were effective January 19, 2017. The rule’s general compliance date was February 21, 2017, subject to its expressly listed exceptions. For its §302.70 revisions, the DATES section specified compliance on the effective date. |
S013, DATES, 81 FR 93492, index 0. The separate January 20 date for a Medicaid amendment is not applied to the selected 45 C.F.R. provisions. govinfo.gov |
| R023-P1-C072 |
Guidelines and related delayed compliance. For §302.56(a)–(g), §303.4, and §303.8(c)–(d), compliance was due one year after completion of the first state quadrennial guidelines review that commenced more than one year after publication of the December 20, 2016 final rule. |
S013, DATES, 81 FR 93492, index 0; S005, §302.56(a). No state review dates or resulting calendar dates are calculated. govinfo.gov+1 |
| R023-P1-C073 |
Separate guidelines-review compliance predicate. Section 302.56(h)’s requirements applied to the first quadrennial review commencing after the state’s guidelines had initially been revised under the final rule. |
S013, DATES, 81 FR 93492, index 0. This differs from C072’s one-year-after-completion predicate. govinfo.gov |
| R023-P1-C074 |
Mandatory incarceration-notice compliance. For §303.8(b)(7)(ii), the DATES section specified December 20, 2017, unless state-law changes were needed; then it specified the first day of the second calendar quarter beginning after the close of the first regular legislative session beginning after the final rule’s effective date. |
S013, DATES, 81 FR 93492, index 0. The specific DATES entry is used rather than the broader shorthand in response 8. State implementation remains unverified. govinfo.gov+1 |
| R023-P1-C075 |
Optional agency initiation has no specific federal adoption deadline in that rule. The DATES section expressly places §303.8(b)(2) among optional provisions without a specified compliance date. |
S013, DATES, 81 FR 93492, index 0. An actual state-plan election remains necessary to establish use of that option. govinfo.gov |
| R023-P1-C076 |
The 2020 incarceration-exceptions proposal was withdrawn. The official November 10, 2021 notice withdrew the September 17, 2020 NPRM, 85 FR 58029, effective immediately. The retrieved current §302.56(c)(3) contains the prohibition without those proposed exceptions. |
S014, 86 FR 62502–62503, indices 0–1; S005, current §302.56(c)(3). Withdrawn proposal, not an operative exception. govinfo.gov+1 |
| R023-P1-C077 |
A 2026 proposal is not treated as an adopted amendment. The June 18, 2026 “Reducing Bureaucracy and Burden” document is an NPRM. Its proposed changes include removing §302.33, but its listed amendments do not amend the selected §§302.56, 302.70, 303.8, or 303.106. The retrieved current eCFR still contains §302.33. |
S015, 91 FR 36779–36785, proposed amendments at 36785, index 6; S005, current §302.33. No later adopted change was established by the obtained sources. federalregister.gov+2 |
| R023-P1-C078 |
Currentness is bounded. The sources establish the displayed current bodies and the selected amendment history described above. They do not establish a complete intervening session-law audit, every future-effective change, every state implementation, or the absence of any judicial stay or vacatur. A failed retrieval is not evidence of repeal, withdrawal, or absence of law. |
S001–S016, source predicates and failure log below. Research-limit statement; no case-record or docket-status inquiry was performed. |
Status separation
| Status category |
Treatment in this pass |
| Current body retrieved |
Selected U.S. Code and eCFR provisions, subject to their expressly recorded compilation dates. |
| Historical enacted/final text |
1986/1989, 2003, 2004/2006, 2006/2008, and 2016 history, used only for the identified propositions and checked against the retrieved current text. |
| Future-effective |
No particular future-effective amendment to the selected clauses was verified. This is a bounded finding, not a comprehensive absence claim. |
| Proposed |
The 2026 NPRM in S015. Its proposed removal language is not applied as current law. |
| Withdrawn |
The 2020 incarceration-exceptions NPRM, as established by the 2021 withdrawal in S014. |
| Stayed / vacated |
No such status is established by a source relied on here. A complete published-opinion/later-history audit was not performed; no docket inquiry was made. |
| Unknown |
Individual state implementation, approved exemptions, unresolved source gaps, later judicial treatment, and other matters expressly held below. |
3. Provision-specific comparison
3A. Different legal actions and their predicates
| Question or action |
Federal provision examined |
What it establishes |
What it does not establish |
Claim cross-reference |
| Due installment under a child-support order |
§666(a)(9); §303.106(a) |
Required judgment status, recognition, and nonretroactivity treatment |
Whether the asserted installment was actually due or remains unpaid |
C014–C016 |
| Modification affecting a pending period |
§666(a)(9) proviso; §303.106(b) |
Conditional federal permission after the required petition notice |
A mandatory reduction or a universally sufficient filing/service method |
C017–C022 |
| Prospective modification |
§666(a)(10); §§302.56, 303.8 |
Review and adjustment framework |
Automatic replacement of an order when circumstances change |
C023–C024, C028–C045 |
| Accounting correction |
1989 response 11 |
Correction is not categorically barred by nonretroactivity |
Proof of error, credit entitlement, or the proper state correction procedure |
C025 |
| Credit for collected support |
§656(a)(3); §302.50(d) |
Credit against the specified assigned obligation |
Treatment of disputed direct payments, gifts, or in-kind support |
C026 |
| Compromise of a judgment |
1989 response 14; 2016 limited responses |
Conditional recognition of agreements and distinct rights in assigned/unassigned debt |
A national forgiveness entitlement or authority to waive someone else’s rights |
C056–C060 |
| Program closure or collection management |
2016 responses identified above |
Administrative handling is distinct from the underlying obligation |
Extinguishment of the order or universal debt-management discretion |
C027, C061 |
| Claim that no order exists |
§653(p); §656(a); §302.50 |
Different predicates for an order and some assigned-support legal processes |
An inference from “no document supplied” to “no obligation exists” |
C008, C012 |
| Interstate modification |
§303.8(f); selected §1738B |
Need for a state with legal modification authority |
Selection of a controlling order or tribunal on unknown facts |
C062–C064 |
3B. Timing provisions that must not be combined
| Provision |
Trigger or anchor |
Federal period or action |
Principal limit |
| §303.8(b)(1) |
Establishment or most recent review; qualifying Part A assignment or request |
Within 36 months, or a shorter state cycle |
A review cycle; not an automatic change in amount. C028 |
| §303.8(b)(7)(i) |
Continuing order-related notice duty |
Notice at least every 3 years |
Initial order notice does not replace later notices. C034 |
| §303.8(b)(3) |
Date of notice of COLA/automated adjustment |
30 days to request guidelines review to contest it |
Not a universal appeal deadline. C033 |
| §303.8(b)(7)(ii) |
IV-D agency learns of qualifying incarceration; no (b)(2) election |
Notice within 15 business days |
Comparable-state-law exception; not a modification-entry deadline. C049–C050 |
| §303.8(b)(2), (b)(7)(ii) |
Qualifying incarceration as interpreted at agency learning |
More than 180 calendar days |
This is a duration threshold, not the notice or completion period. C048–C051 |
| §303.8(e) |
Review request received or nonrequesting parent located, whichever later |
Review and adjustment or no-adjustment determination within 180 calendar days |
Separate no-request initiation issue remains open. C035–C036 |
| §654(12)(B) |
Order or specified no-change determination issued |
Provide copy/notice within 14 days |
Post-issuance notification. C037 |
| §667(a); §302.56(e) |
State guidelines policy cycle |
Review at least every 4 years |
Does not itself modify individual orders. C040 |
| §666(a)(9); §303.106(b) |
Pending petition plus required notice |
Boundary for permitted modification of the pending period |
No numerical deadline or automatic award is created. C017–C021 |
No procedural calendar date has been calculated.
4. Generic blank review worksheet
R023-P1-W001 — blank classification and authority worksheet
This worksheet contains no party identifiers, account identifiers, docket fields, invented entries, or calculations. The response cells are intentionally unfilled. A later public-law investigation can address the legal-authority column; actual facts remain held unless separately authorized and supplied.
| Review item |
Blank response |
Authority or distinction to check |
| Obligation category: child support, possible mixed order, or unknown |
__________ |
C008–C011 |
| State-program, tribal-program, or other legal setting |
__________ |
C013, C065 |
| IV-D services and relevant service scope established? |
__________ |
C002–C003, C028 |
| Operative order or other legally recognized assigned-support process established? |
__________ |
C012 |
| Legal authority and jurisdiction of the issuing body established? |
__________ |
C005, C063 |
| Controlling-order question present? |
__________ |
C062–C064 |
| Current installment, due installment, or disputed accrual category? |
__________ |
C014–C017, C023 |
| Applicable order-duration or automatic-change law established? |
__________ |
C023, C064 |
| Modification petition legally pending? |
__________ |
C017 |
| Required petition notice legally sufficient? |
__________ |
C018–C020 |
| Correct recipient or appropriate agent established? |
__________ |
C018 |
| State law permits the requested effective period? |
__________ |
C019–C021 |
| Ordinary-cycle or out-of-cycle review route? |
__________ |
C028–C031 |
| Applicable guidelines and reasonable adjustment threshold identified? |
__________ |
C032, C039–C045 |
| Relevant review/request/notice trigger established without calculating a date? |
__________ |
C033–C037 |
| Incarceration rule, state-plan election, or comparable-law exception applicable? |
__________ |
C046–C052 |
| Review completed, recommendation made, or legally effective modification entered? |
__________ |
C004, C035, C045 |
| Claimed accounting error or credit distinguished from obligation modification? |
__________ |
C025–C026 |
| Assigned principal and family-owed principal legally distinguished? |
__________ |
C054–C060 |
| Interest source, ownership, and waiver authority separately identified? |
__________ |
C059 |
| Required consent and tribunal/agency approval established? |
__________ |
C056–C058 |
| Source version, effective date, compliance predicate, and unresolved gap recorded? |
__________ |
C066–C078 |
5. Qualitative branches and branch-level coverage
Status convention: “Answered” means the selected federal proposition is established. “Partial” means the federal boundary is established but a material legal or factual predicate remains open. “Unresolved” means the obtained sources do not settle the branch. “Excluded” preserves the parent hold.
Every “next investigation” below means published generic law only, with no party, record, locator, docket, identifier, or operational inquiry. State or tribal research would require a later permitted expansion of this pass.
| Branch ID and requested branch |
Status and adverse inference to avoid |
Result under this pass; claim/example links |
Missing evidence and exact permissible next public-law investigation |
| R023-P1-B001 — Obligation type unknown |
Partial. Do not classify a family-related debt as child support merely from its setting. |
Classification must precede use of these rules. C008–C011. |
Missing legal character of the obligation. Later examine the applicable published support, domestic-relations, and contract classification law; do not infer facts from a label. |
| R023-P1-B002 — IV-D status unknown |
Partial. Do not equate non-assistance with non-IV-D, or unknown IV-D status with absence of all federal rules. |
Keep the three applicability boundaries separate. C002–C003, C013. |
Missing service status and scope. Later read current §302.33, applicable published program-entry rules, and any adopted change to the 2026 proposal. |
| R023-P1-B003 — No operative order supplied |
Partial. Missing evidence is not proof that no order or obligation exists. |
The installment rule needs its order predicate; assigned-support legal processes are a separate possibility. C008, C012. |
Missing legal instrument and validity predicates. Later examine published initial-establishment, administrative-order, binding-agreement, and judgment-validity rules for the permitted jurisdiction. |
| R023-P1-B004 — Accrued versus future installment |
Answered federally; application held. Do not treat all periods as one modifiable balance. |
Classify whether an amount became due and whether the pending-period exception is implicated. C014–C017, C023; E001. |
Missing due-period and operative-law facts. Later examine published accrual, prospective-effect, and modification-effective-date law. |
| R023-P1-B005 — Pending petition without required notice |
Answered federally; notice facts held. Filing alone does not establish permission to reach the pre-notice period. |
Petition pendency and qualifying notice are separate predicates. C017–C020; E001. |
Missing legally sufficient notice. Later read current service, agency-notice, agent-authority, and due-process rules; no service-status lookup. |
| R023-P1-B006 — Sufficient notice stipulated, state procedure unknown |
Partial. Satisfying the federal notice boundary does not guarantee modification from that date. |
State permission, tribunal authority, grounds, and disposition remain necessary. C019–C021; E001. |
Missing substantive and procedural state authority. Later read published modification, relation-back/effective-period, and tribunal-jurisdiction provisions. |
| R023-P1-B007 — Income/job loss without order change |
Partial. Do not infer suspension or accrued-debt erasure. |
Potential grounds must be evaluated through the correct review route and guidelines. C024, C031, C041–C045. |
Missing applicable guidelines, substantial-change standard, and legally effective change. Later read published income, imputation, low-income-adjustment, and modification rules. |
| R023-P1-B008 — Incarceration versus ability to pay/adjustment |
Partial. Neither automatic zero support nor voluntary-unemployment treatment is justified. |
Separate guidelines treatment, remaining-duration threshold, agency learning, state election, notice, and outcome. C046–C053. |
Missing legal classification and state implementation. Later inspect the public state-plan election, comparable-law text, guidelines, and official federal interpretation of any uncertain confinement category. |
| R023-P1-B009 — Periodic review versus immediate change |
Answered federally. A cycle date does not replace the order. |
Three-year order review and four-year guidelines review serve different functions. C028–C030, C039–C040. |
Missing applicable cycle and review outcome. Later examine published review procedures and guidelines effective-date provisions. |
| R023-P1-B010 — Review requested versus modification entered |
Answered federally; application held. A request, recommendation, review, and effective order are not interchangeable. |
The permitted outcome includes no adjustment. A request is not automatically the nonretroactivity exception’s start event. C004, C021, C035–C037, C045. |
Missing legal status of the request and disposition. Later examine the published procedure that converts an agency review into a tribunal or administrative modification. |
| R023-P1-B011 — Claimed payment credit |
Partial. Do not treat every credit claim as forbidden retroactive modification—or every transfer as support. |
Accounting correction and qualifying collected-support credit are distinct from changing the obligation. C025–C026. |
Missing payment character and allocation. Later read published credit, allocation, satisfaction, and accounting-correction law; no payment-record request. |
| R023-P1-B012 — State-owed versus family-owed arrears |
Partial. State administration does not prove ownership of all components. |
Assignment and specific agreement/approval requirements matter. C054–C060. |
Missing assignment category, period, and ownership. Later examine current and applicable historical assignment law, transition provisions, and published compromise delegations. |
| R023-P1-B013 — Interest authority unknown |
Unresolved. Do not assume universal interest or universal waiver authority. |
The definition’s reference to interest supplies neither. C059–C060. |
Missing interest statute, accrual basis, owner, and waiver delegation. Later read applicable published interest and compromise provisions and their effective dates. |
| R023-P1-B014 — Custody/age change |
Partial. Do not infer federal automatic termination, suspension, or arrears forgiveness. |
A valid prospective state-law effect is possible, but must be established; duration has a separate interstate rule. C023–C024, C064. |
Missing duration and event-effect law. Later examine published emancipation, duration, custody-related modification, and automatic-operation provisions. |
| R023-P1-B015 — Cross-state/controlling-order uncertainty |
Partial. Do not choose the current location, most recent paper, or largest amount as controlling. |
Modification authority must be established before applying the review forum’s procedures. C062–C064. |
Missing legal jurisdiction/controlling-order predicates. Later investigate the necessary published UIFSA enactment and §1738B recognition/modification rules; no case or party lookup. |
| R023-P1-B016 — Tribal case |
Unresolved; parent hold preserved. Do not import every state-IV-D clock or infer absence of tribal protections. |
Different definitional and program scopes require separate analysis. C065. |
Part 309 retrieval gap and tribal-law scope. Later obtain current 42 U.S.C. §655(f), 45 C.F.R. §§309.90, 309.105, 309.120 and, only if authorized, the relevant published tribal law. |
| R023-P1-B017 — Ordinary family loan |
Excluded except classification boundary. Do not use child-support nonretroactivity or review rules as loan law. |
No contract, gift-versus-loan, repayment, or enforceability conclusion. C011. |
Missing applicable contract/gift law and agreement characterization. A separate permitted A023 investigation is required. |
| R023-P1-B018 — Spousal/property obligation |
Excluded except limited federal scope. Do not treat a whole divorce order as child support. |
Limited spousal program coverage does not enlarge §303.8 adjustment beyond child-support provisions. C010–C011. |
Missing obligation classification and state modification law. A separate permitted investigation of published spousal-support/property law is required. |
6. Fully worked qualitative illustration
R023-P1-E001 — Petition, notice, and the affected period
This is an abstract classification exercise. It assumes no actual case, party, date, amount, filing, service event, or order. Each row states only the condition being tested.
| Abstract condition |
Federal classification |
What remains unresolved |
| A support installment became due under a legally operative child-support order before the relevant petition-and-notice period. |
C014–C016 require judgment and nonretroactivity treatment. |
Whether it remains unpaid, whether an accounting correction is appropriate, and whether another legally distinct issue exists. |
| A modification petition is now pending, but the required notice has not been given. |
C017–C018 do not establish permission to modify the earlier pre-notice period. The petition alone does not change the obligation. |
State procedure, later notice, modification grounds, and prospective disposition. |
| While the petition remains pending, legally sufficient notice of that petition to the correct recipient is stipulated. |
The federal exception can permit modification for the covered period beginning no earlier than that notice event. Permission is established only at the federal boundary. |
Whether state law permits the requested effective period and whether the authorized tribunal grants any change. |
| A valid modification is later made under the applicable state procedure. |
Its lawful terms determine the changed obligation; the federal exception does not automatically reach older protected installments. |
The actual terms and lawful effective period, which are not supplied or invented. |
| A separate entry is shown to be a miscalculation or an omitted qualifying collected-support payment. |
C025–C026 identify a correction/credit question distinct from rewriting the underlying obligation. |
Proper proof, allocation, correction authority, and any contested legal characterization. |
| A compromise is considered instead of a correction or modification. |
C056–C060 require separate attention to state authority, ownership, agreement, and approvals. |
No settlement result, percentage, or suitability conclusion follows. |
No numerical award, payoff estimate, or identifying hypothetical is warranted or supplied.
7. Numbered-question coverage and claim/source crosswalk
The branch table above supplies branch-level coverage. This table supplies granular coverage of the five numbered questions and the material procedural paths.
| Requested question / material subquestion |
Coverage status and reason |
Claims / illustration |
Sources |
Missing evidence and exact next permitted investigation |
| 1. State-plan role and implementation |
Answered federally. Program duties and implementation relationship established. |
C001–C004 |
S001, S005–S006 |
State implementation and actual compliance held; later read the permitted jurisdiction’s published implementing law. |
| 1. Definitions and obligation classification |
Answered for selected definitions; partial for application. |
C008–C012 |
S001, S004–S006 |
Underlying legal classification remains unknown; later published classification law only. |
| 1. IV-D versus non-IV-D |
Answered to the extent established. Three separate scopes identified. |
C002–C003, C013 |
S001, S005–S006 |
Actual service status and limited-service route held; later public program-rule investigation. |
| 1. Judicial versus administrative process |
Answered federally; state predicates unresolved. |
C005, C012, C045 |
S001, S006, S008 |
Published tribunal authority and modification procedure. |
| 1. Exceptions/exemptions |
Partial. Federal exemption machinery read; no actual exemption assumed. |
C006–C007 |
S001, S005 |
Only a later permitted search for published program exemptions and implementing law could settle an exemption claim. |
| 1. Child versus spousal/property/loan obligations |
Boundary answered; other dimensions excluded. |
C010–C011; B017–B018 |
S001, S004, S006 |
Separate A023 public-law investigation required. |
| 2. Judgment by operation of law |
Answered. Due event, order scope, and judgment attributes covered. |
C014 |
S001, S005–S006 |
Actual order, due period, payment facts held. |
| 2. Full faith and credit |
Answered as a requirement; recognition application partial. |
C015, C062–C064 |
S001, S003, S006 |
Necessary published interstate-law investigation if later authorized. |
| 2. Complete prohibition and proviso |
Answered. Both states, petition pendency, notice, recipient, agent, permissive character covered. |
C016–C022; E001 |
S001, S006–S007, S013 |
State notice and effective-period rules remain open. |
| 2. Prospective versus retroactive change |
Answered as a distinction; state automatic effects partial. |
C023–C024 |
S001, S006–S007 |
Published state event-effect and modification law. |
| 2. Accounting corrections and credits |
Answered as categories; individual entitlement unresolved. |
C025–C026 |
S001, S005, S007 |
Published credit/allocation/correction procedure; no records investigation. |
| 2. No-order assertion |
Partial. Missing order distinguished from no obligation. |
C012; B003 |
S001, S005–S006 |
Published initial-establishment and alternative assigned-support legal-process rules. |
| 2. Compromise/management distinction |
Partial. Bounded agency interpretation obtained. |
C027, C056–C061 |
S007, S013 |
State delegations, rights, consent, and interest authority held. |
| 3. Part A assignment path versus requested cycle review |
Answered. Current wording and amendment resolved. |
C028–C030, C069–C070 |
S001, S006, S011–S012, S016 |
State cycle and implementation held. |
| 3. Guidelines/COLA/automated paths |
Answered. Alternatives and contest route covered. |
C029–C033 |
S001, S006, S009–S010 |
Published state election, formula, threshold, and contest rules. |
| 3. Out-of-cycle change |
Answered federally; state standard partial. |
C031–C032 |
S001, S006 |
Published substantial-change and threshold law. |
| 3. Recurring, proceeding, and outcome notices |
Answered with separate triggers. |
C033–C037 |
S001, S006, S008 |
Counting/service rules and actual issuance facts held. |
| 3. 180-day disposition clock |
Answered for its express trigger; partial for no-request initiation. |
C035–C036 |
S006, S008, S013 |
Obtain an applicable published federal interpretation of the no-request trigger and permitted state implementation rules. |
| 3. Guidelines relationship and four-year review |
Answered federally. |
C038–C045 |
S001, S005–S006 |
Actual guideline version, criteria, and implementation dates held. |
| 3. Incarceration ability-to-pay rule |
Answered federally; individual amount unresolved. |
C046–C047 |
S005–S006, S013–S014 |
Published state guidelines only; no personal support calculation. |
| 3. Incarceration automatic/requested paths and exception |
Answered federally; state election/comparability partial. |
C048–C050 |
S006, S013 |
Public state-plan election and comparable-law text. |
| 3. Duration threshold, confinement category, release |
Partial. Published interpretations obtained; particular classifications held. |
C051–C053 |
S006, S013 |
Further official generic interpretation if a later permitted legal-category question requires it. |
| 3. Final-rule dates and later changes |
Answered for selected material history; full audit unresolved. |
C066–C078 |
S007–S016 |
Remaining session-law, future-effective, and published judicial-history audit only if later needed and permitted. |
| 4. State-owed/family-owed distinction |
Answered at the federal boundary; ownership application unresolved. |
C054–C058 |
S001–S002, S004–S005, S007, S013 |
Published assignment, historical transition, and compromise authority. |
| 4. Consent and approvals |
Partial. Necessary rights distinctions identified; sufficiency not determined. |
C056–C060 |
S007, S013 |
Published state rules protecting the child/other right holders and requiring tribunal or agency approval. |
| 4. Interest waiver/compromise |
Unresolved. No universal authority established. |
C059 |
S001, S007, S013 |
Exact published interest, ownership, waiver, and delegation provisions. |
| 4. Standalone agency guidance |
Partial. Relevant final-rule interpretations obtained; older guidance retrieval gaps retained. |
C056–C061; failure log |
S007, S013 |
Obtain the failed publisher-hosted guidance and verify its status before relying on it. |
| 5. Comparison and blank worksheet |
Answered visibly. |
Sections 3–4; W001 |
Claim-linked |
No missing deliverable; worksheet intentionally blank. |
| 5. All listed qualitative branches |
Answered as a branch analysis, with unresolved applications marked. |
B001–B018 |
Claim-linked |
Each branch states the precise remaining legal/factual predicate and permissible next investigation. |
| 5. Worked illustration |
Answered qualitatively. |
E001 |
C014–C026, C056–C060 |
No monetary or identifying illustration supplied. |
| 5. Sources, atomic claims, read/failure log, gaps, self-check |
Answered visibly, with bounds. |
This report |
S001–S016 |
No independent-review or acceptance claim. |
8. Source register — R023-P1-S001+
Common access date for every entry: October 27, 2026, America/Los_Angeles.
Pinpoint convention: A PDF “index” is zero-based within the exact linked PDF. An HTML statute or regulation is cited by its legal clause and has no PDF index. Parsed text was not treated as pixel inspection.
8A. Current statutory and regulatory bodies
| Source ID; issuer and title |
Complete literal HTTPS URLs |
Exact read bounds and pinpoint |
Version, jurisdiction, status, and limits |
| R023-P1-S001 — Congress; OLRC, Social Security Act, Title IV-D selected sections |
§653: https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-124/t42/s653/; §654: https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-124/t42/s654/; §656: https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-124/t42/s656/; §666: https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-124/t42/s666/; §667: https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-124/t42/s667/ |
§653(p) complete support-order definition only. §654 opening, (1), (3), (4), (10), (12), (13), (20), (25), and (29) material clauses read; unrelated enforcement text not relied on. §656(a)(1)–(3) complete. §666 opening of (a), (a)(2), complete (a)(9)–(10), concluding case-nonuse paragraph, (d), (e), (f), and relevant amendment/effective-date notes. §667(a)–(c) complete. HTML; PDF index not applicable. |
U.S. federal statutory body, displayed through P.L. 119-124, October 15, 2026. Grouped provisions of one statutory framework, not five independent corroborations. §653’s locator functions, §656(b)’s bankruptcy subject, and unrelated enforcement provisions were not investigated substantively. No complete session-law audit. |
| R023-P1-S002 — Congress; OLRC, 42 U.S.C. §608, Prohibitions; requirements |
https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-120/t42/s608/ |
§608(a)(3) complete assignment clause. HTML; no PDF index. |
Federal Part A assignment context. Retrieved body only through P.L. 119-120, October 7, 2026. Newer attempted routes failed. Historical assignment and transition/distribution law not audited. Same Act as S001, not independent corroboration. |
| R023-P1-S003 — Congress; OLRC, 28 U.S.C. §1738B, Full faith and credit for child support orders |
https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-124/t28/s1738B/ |
Operative (a)–(i) read. Relied principally on (a)–(c), modification-authority context in (d)–(f), (i), and duration interpretation in (h)(2). HTML; no PDF index. |
Federal statute, displayed through P.L. 119-124, October 15, 2026. Only necessary interstate predicates used. No controlling-order determination, limitations analysis, or full UIFSA/FFCCSOA audit. |
| R023-P1-S004 — HHS; OFR/GPO eCFR, 45 C.F.R. Part 301, General definitions |
https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-45/subtitle-B/chapter-III/part-301/section-301.1 |
Complete relevant definitions: Act, assignment/assigned support, IV-D agency, controlling-order state, intergovernmental/interstate cases, overdue support, past-due support, spousal support, State, state plan, and tribunal. HTML; no PDF index. |
Final retrieved header: October 26, 2026; Title 45 last amended October 6. Federal state-program regulation. eCFR describes itself as authoritative but unofficial. Historical definition language expressly separated. |
| R023-P1-S005 — HHS; OFR/GPO eCFR, 45 C.F.R. Part 302, State plan requirements |
§302.33: https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-45/subtitle-B/chapter-III/part-302/section-302.33; §302.50: https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-45/subtitle-B/chapter-III/part-302/section-302.50; §302.56: https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-45/subtitle-B/chapter-III/part-302/section-302.56; §302.70: https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-45/subtitle-B/chapter-III/part-302/section-302.70 |
§302.33(a)(1)–(6) complete; fee provisions outside scope. §302.50(a)–(e) complete. §302.56(a)–(h) complete. §302.70(a) opening and relevant (2), (9), (10), plus (b) and (d)(1)–(5) complete. HTML; no PDF indices. |
Final retrieved headers: October 26, 2026. Federal regulations in one part, grouped. Current codification used with relevant final rules below. Medical-assignment, benefit-eligibility, and unrelated enforcement cross-references are not treated as fully investigated subjects. |
| R023-P1-S006 — HHS; OFR/GPO eCFR, 45 C.F.R. Part 303, Standards for program operations |
§303.4: https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-45/subtitle-B/chapter-III/part-303/section-303.4; §303.8: https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-45/subtitle-B/chapter-III/part-303/section-303.8; §303.106: https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-45/subtitle-B/chapter-III/part-303/section-303.106 |
§303.4, opening and (b)(1)–(4), (c) fully read; separate establishment clause (d) inspected to avoid using its clock for modification. §303.8(a)–(f) complete. §303.106(a)(1)–(3), (b) complete. HTML; no PDF indices. |
Final retrieved headers: October 26, 2026. Federal state-IV-D program regulations. No-request initiation clock and state implementation limits expressly retained. |
8B. Enacted amendment, rulemaking history, and official interpretations
| Source ID; issuer and title |
Complete literal HTTPS URLs |
Exact read bounds; printed pages and zero-based PDF indices |
Version, effectiveness, status, and limits |
| R023-P1-S007 — HHS/OCSE, “Child Support Enforcement Program; Implementation of Section 9103 of Public Law 99-509: Prohibition of Retroactive Modification of Child Support Arrearages” |
https://archives.federalregister.gov/issue_slice/1989/4/19/15756-15765.pdf |
Rule begins 54 FR 15757; metadata/effective date at 15758, index 2. Material preamble responses 7, 9–12, 14–18, at 15761–15764, indices 5–8; complete response 14 spans indices 6–7 and complete response 18 spans 7–8. Operative §§302.70(a)(9), 303.106 at 15764, index 8. |
Published and effective April 19, 1989. Historical final rule plus official interpretive preamble. Pixel-inspected indices 5, 6, 7, 8. Other relied material read as parsed text. Old multiple-order/URESA discussion and historical notice/audit statements were not treated as current law. The PDF includes adjacent material outside the rule. |
| R023-P1-S008 — HHS/OCSE, “Child Support Enforcement Program; State Plan Approval and Grant Procedures, State Plan Requirements, Standards for Program Operations, Federal Financial Participation, Computerized Support Enforcement Systems” |
HTML: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2003/05/12/03-11223/child-support-enforcement-program-state-plan-approval-and-grant-procedures-state-plan-requirements; PDF: https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2003-05-12/pdf/03-11223.pdf |
68 FR 25293–25305. DATES at 25293, index 0; review-and-adjustment responses 1–4 at 25298–25299, indices 5–6; operative §303.8 at 25303–25304, indices 10–11, including complete (e). |
Effective June 11, 2003. Historical final rule. HTML and parsed PDF are one instrument. Narrower old threshold wording, old assignment-request wording, and former medical-support wording were not adopted as current. No pixel inspection claimed. |
| R023-P1-S009 — HHS/OCSE, “Child Support Enforcement Program; Reasonable Quantitative Standard for Review and Adjustment of Child Support Orders” |
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2004-12-28/pdf/04-28410.pdf |
HHS instrument read across 69 FR 77659–77661, indices 0–2. DATES and explanation at index 0; substantive discussion at indices 0–2; operative deletion from §303.8(c) at 77661, index 2. |
Interim final rule with comment period, effective December 28, 2004; subsequently confirmed by S010. Adjacent unrelated documents excluded. Parsed PDF, no pixel inspection claimed. |
| R023-P1-S010 — HHS/OCSE, same quantitative-standard title, final confirmation |
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2006-05-23/pdf/06-4731.pdf |
HHS text at 71 FR 29590–29592, indices 0–2, read through the adoption without change at 29592, index 2. Responses concerning threshold authority at indices 1–2. |
Final rule, effective May 23, 2006. Confirms S009; not independent corroboration of a separate policy. Historical assignment-request discussion is superseded as explained in C069. Parsed PDF. |
| R023-P1-S011 — Congress, Deficit Reduction Act of 2005, P.L. 109-171 |
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-109publ171/pdf/PLAW-109publ171.pdf |
§7302(a)–(b) complete, 120 Stat. 145, PDF index 142. No whole-Act read claimed. |
Enacted February 8, 2006; selected amendment effective October 1, 2007. Enacted amendment used to resolve the SSA reproduction discrepancy. Parsed PDF. |
| R023-P1-S012 — HHS/OCSE, “Child Support Enforcement Program” |
HTML: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2008/12/09/E8-28660/child-support-enforcement-program; PDF: https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2008-12-09/pdf/E8-28660.pdf |
73 FR 74898–74921. DATES at 74898, index 0; §303.8 response 1 at 74916, index 18; §302.70(a)(10) and §303.8(b)/(b)(1)/(b)(1)(i) amendments at 74920, index 22. |
Final rule, effective February 9, 2009. Selected review provisions only; other subjects excluded. HTML/parsed PDF grouped. |
| R023-P1-S013 — HHS/ACF/OCSE and CMS, “Flexibility, Efficiency, and Modernization in Child Support Enforcement Programs” |
HTML: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2016/12/20/2016-29598/flexibility-efficiency-and-modernization-in-child-support-enforcement-programs; PDF: https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2016-12-20/pdf/2016-29598.pdf |
81 FR 93492–93569. Complete relevant DATES at 93492, index 0; state/tribal scope at 93493, index 1; §302.33 response 2 at 93509, index 17; §303.8 material discussion/responses 1–21 at 93537–93540, indices 45–48; §303.11 response 5 at 93541, index 49. Operative §302.56 at 93562–93563, indices 70–71; §303.4 at 93563, index 71; §303.8 at 93564, index 72. |
Published December 20, 2016; selected effective/compliance predicates in C071–C075. Pixel-inspected indices 0 and 72; other specified pages read through HTML/parsed PDF. Preamble interpretation is labeled separately from regulation. No full 78-page substantive audit claimed. |
| R023-P1-S014 — HHS/ACF/OCSE, “Optional Exceptions to the Prohibition Against Treating Incarceration as Voluntary Unemployment Under Child Support Guidelines” |
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2021-11-10/pdf/2021-24606.pdf |
Complete HHS withdrawal text at 86 FR 62502–62503, indices 0–1. Adjacent material excluded. |
Published November 10, 2021, NPRM withdrawal effective immediately. Establishes withdrawal of 85 FR 58029, September 17, 2020; original proposal not treated as an operative rule. Parsed PDF. |
| R023-P1-S015 — HHS/ACF/Office of Child Support Services, “Reducing Bureaucracy and Burden for Child Support Enforcement Programs” |
HTML: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/06/18/2026-12295/reducing-bureaucracy-and-burden-for-child-support-enforcement-programs; PDF: https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2026-06-18/pdf/2026-12295.pdf |
91 FR 36779–36785. ACTION/DATES and relevant proposed changes read; Part 302/303 proposed amendments at 36785, index 6; §302.33 discussion at 36781–36782, indices 2–3. |
Published June 18, 2026, proposed rule. Comment deadline is not an effective date. Limited currentness check; no later final amendment established. HTML/parsed PDF grouped. |
| R023-P1-S016 — Social Security Administration, Social Security Act §466 reproduction |
https://www.ssa.gov/OP_Home/ssact/title04/0466.htm |
Selected (a)(9)–(10) read, particularly the extra request wording in (a)(10)(A)(i). HTML; no PDF index. |
Official reproduction with a material stale passage relative to S001 and S011. Used to disclose and resolve a source conflict, not as the current foundation for the disputed requirement. No inference that every passage on the page is defective. |
The eCFR pages expressly distinguish their continuously updated presentation from an official legal edition. The FederalRegister.gov HTML renderings were checked against the corresponding published PDFs for the material rule text and dates identified above. ecfr.gov+3
9. Source-read and retrieval-failure log
9A. Successful reads and reconciliation
| Log item |
Read or verification performed |
Result and limit |
| R023-P1-L001 |
Read complete §666(a)(9), §303.106(a)–(b), and §302.70(a)(9). |
Judgment event, both-state prohibition, pending petition, notice recipient/agent, and permissive proviso retained. No isolated-clause reading. |
| R023-P1-L002 |
Read complete current §666(a)(10), §303.8, §667, and §302.56. |
Separate assignment/request paths, review methods, notices, clocks, thresholds, health-care basis, and guidelines predicates retained. |
| R023-P1-L003 |
Read the enacted §7302 amendment and 2008 implementing text after detecting the SSA discrepancy. |
Older additional-request wording rejected for the current Part A assignment path. |
| R023-P1-L004 |
Read the 2003 review text, 2004 correction, and 2006 confirmation. |
Historical automated-review-only threshold language not carried into the current rule. |
| R023-P1-L005 |
Read 2016 DATES and the material operative amendments and responses. |
Effective dates separated from compliance dates; specific DATES entries used where broader preamble shorthand could mislead. |
| R023-P1-L006 |
Read 1989 correction, compromise, prospective-change, and notice responses; checked 2016 ownership/closure interpretations. |
Agency interpretation distinguished from statutory/regulatory command; state rights and approvals preserved. |
| R023-P1-L007 |
Read 2021 withdrawal and relevant 2026 proposed amendments; refreshed current eCFR pages. |
Withdrawn proposal and current proposal kept separate from operative text. |
| R023-P1-L008 |
Inspected PDF images only for S007 indices 5–8 and S013 indices 0 and 72. |
Pixel-inspection claim limited to those pages. Other PDF reads were parsed text. No unseen scan, form, signature, or case document is claimed to have been visually inspected. |
| R023-P1-L009 |
Public searches produced some secondary mirrors and unrelated provisions with similar section numbers. |
They were not relied on as legal authority. No case-file mirror or docket material was opened or used as a foundation. |
| R023-P1-L010 |
No majority opinion was necessary to state the selected statutory/regulatory framework. |
No judicial holding, disposition, or later-history claim is made. Judicial-history questions remain bounded gaps. |
9B. Retrieval failures
Failure means unavailable through the attempted retrieval, not nonexistent law, repeal, withdrawal, or lack of rights. A successful alternative is identified where one was obtained.
10. Explicit gaps and preserved parent holds
Material legal gaps remaining within this focused component
- State implementation and tribunal authority. No state’s modification, petition, service, notice, jurisdiction, automatic-change, judgment-correction, or approval law was investigated. The federal framework cannot supply those missing predicates.
- No-request review timing. The selected §303.8 text does not expressly resolve every starting event for paragraph (e) when review begins under paragraph (b)(2) without a request. The report does not convert the special notice period into a universal completion deadline.
- Compromise and interest. The obtained official interpretations establish conditional distinctions, including state-assignee approval and family agreement. They do not settle universal authority over interest, every state’s delegation, the sufficiency of consent, or rights belonging to a child or another holder.
- Assignment history. The retrieved §608 text has a narrower compilation predicate. Historical assignments, transition rules, distribution priorities, and actual ownership are not resolved.
- Tribal law and program rules. The failed Part 309 retrieval remains a source gap. No state-program timetable is automatically transferred to a tribal program.
- Interstate application. Only necessary recognition, modification-authority, and duration predicates were used. No controlling order, issuing state, continuing jurisdiction, consent, registration, or choice-of-law result is determined.
- Complete currentness and judicial history. The displayed bodies and selected rule history are documented. A complete session-law, future-effective, published-opinion, stay, or vacatur audit is not claimed. No docket-status inquiry was conducted.
Parent holds preserved
All actual party, family, employment, income, coverage, IV-D status, order, tribunal, jurisdiction, controlling-order, payment, service, petition, notice, assignment, interest, consent, accounting, age, custody, and incarceration facts remain held.
Also preserved are state/local/tribal support and modification law; judgment, compromise, interest, limitations, and enforcement procedures; UIFSA/FFCCSOA beyond the selected predicates; private loans, written agreements, gifts, spousal support and divorce-property obligations; garnishment, offsets, passport/license consequences, contempt, criminal enforcement, collections, credit reporting, settlement suitability, tax, insolvency, remedies, litigation, international law, and every other unaddressed A023 dimension.
No CFPB instrument was necessary or introduced.
11. Researcher self-check — not independent review
| Check |
Result |
| Complete core nonretroactivity clause and proviso read |
Yes: §666(a)(9), §303.106(a)–(b), and implementing §302.70(a)(9). |
| Due date separated from petition, request, notice, review, and modification |
Yes; C014–C024 and E001. |
| Correct opposing notice recipient and appropriate-agent language retained |
Yes; C018–C020. |
| IV-D review scope separated from any-order and guidelines scope |
Yes; C013. |
| Part A automatic-cycle path checked against enacted amendment |
Yes; C069 and S011; stale SSA passage disclosed. |
| Every material §303.8 path, interval, notice, and exception covered |
Yes, with the no-request clock gap expressly retained. |
| 2016 effectiveness separated from section-specific compliance |
Yes; C071–C075, with state dates uncalculated. |
| Proposed and withdrawn material separated from operative text |
Yes; C076–C078. |
| Correction, credit, compromise, management, and modification separated |
Yes; C025–C027 and C054–C061. |
| State-owned/family-owned rights and interest limits preserved |
Yes; no universal compromise or interest-waiver right asserted. |
| PDF reading characterized accurately |
Yes; only the expressly listed pages were pixel-inspected. |
| All 18 requested qualitative branches included |
Yes; B001–B018. |
| Numerical award, payoff estimate, or identifying hypothetical created |
No. |
| Independent review, UI/model-provenance verification, or acceptance claimed |
No. This is the researcher’s own self-check only. |
This pass supplies the focused federal investigation and its visible supporting tables. It does not constitute component, parent, operations, or publication acceptance.
END R023 PASS-01