WAC 388-14A-5007. If the paying parent has more than one case, can DCS apply support money to only one specific case?

(1) The division of child support (DCS) applies amounts to a support debt owed for one family or household and distributes the amounts accordingly, rather than make a proportionate distribution between support debts owed to different families, when: (a) Proportionate distribution is administratively inefficient; or (b) The collection resulted from the sale or disposition of a specific piece of property against which a court awarded the custodial parent (CP) a judgment lien for child support; (c) The collection is the result of a contempt order which provides that DCS must distribute the amounts to a particular case; or (d) An Indian tribe has designated that funds withheld from a tribal benefit should not be applied to all of the cases of a particular noncustodial parent (NCP), but rather should be distributed based on a tribal court order, tribal law, or tribal custom. (2) If the collection is the result of an automated enforcement of interstate (AEI) transaction under RCW 74.20A.188 , DCS applies the payment as provided in WAC 388-14A-5006 , even if the requesting state wants the payment applied to a specific case.