My question involves child support in the State of: Arkansas

Does an employer have to deduct child support from every paycheck as long as the amount deducted is correct? Our company has a bi-weekly payroll schedule. Because our Payroll department kept receiving warnings that our employees were in arrears because they were not meeting the monthly obligation when on a bi-weekly schedule, our company went to a semi-monthly deduction policy. In other words, in months when there are two paydays, both checks have child support deducted from them. In months when there are three paydays, the third check does not have a child support deduction.

The amount being deducted is the total annual child support owed, divided by 24. The custodial parent is receiving the total amount of child support owed. And she is actually receiving a larger deduction each time than she would if we made bi-weekly deductions. But she has now gone back to court and received an order changing her semi-monthly child support payments to bi-weekly payments.

Do we have to abandon our policy (which has worked for everyone else receiving child support with no issues), just because this one person does not understand that she is receiving all of her child support? Actually, the question our Payroll Department is asking is if there has been any precedent or case law that would back us up.