[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 5, Volume 1]
[Revised as of January 1, 2002]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 5CFR581.101]

[Page 604]
 
                    TITLE 5--ADMINISTRATIVE PERSONNEL
 
                CHAPTER I--OFFICE OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT
 
PART 581--PROCESSING GARNISHMENT ORDERS FOR CHILD SUPPORT AND/OR ALIMONY--Table of Contents
 
                   Subpart A--Purpose and Definitions
 
Sec. 581.101  Purpose.


    (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law (including section 
407 of title 42, United States Code, section 5301 of title 38, United 
States Code, and sections 8346 and 8470 of title 5, United States Code), 
section 659 of title 42, United States Code, as amended, provides that 
moneys, the entitlement to which is based upon remuneration for 
employment, due from, or payable by, the United States or the District 
of Columbia to any individual, shall be subject, in like manner and to 
the same extent as if the United States or the District of Columbia were 
a private person:
    (1) To legal process for the enforcement of an obligor's legal 
obligations to provide child support, alimony, or both, resulting from 
an action brought by an individual obligee; and
    (2) To withholding in accordance with State law enacted pursuant to 
subsections (a)(1) and (b) of section 666 of title 42, United States 
Code, and to regulations of the Secretary of Health and Human Services 
under such subsections, and to any other legal process brought by a 
State agency subject to regulations of the Secretary of Health and Human 
Services that is administering a program under an approved State plan to 
enforce the legal obligations of obligors to provide child support and 
alimony.
    (b) Section 659 of title 42, United States Code, as amended, 
provides further that each governmental entity shall be subject to the 
same requirements as would apply if the governmental entity were a 
private person, except as set forth in this part.

[63 FR 14757, Mar. 26, 1998]