Assignment and Transfer of Juvenile Cases during a Deprived Action

Depending on the situation of the case, follow the instructions for correct actions.

Initial referral and notification

• When CIC receives a referral, they notify the district office serving the deprived action.

1. Existing Child support Order

CIC actions

• If the order is already in the deprived county, CIC builds a case and assigns it to that county’s district office.
• If there is no Family Group Number (FGN), CIC creates a new case and assigns it to the deprived county’s district office.
• If an FGN exists but is closed, CIC reopens it and updates the office code to the deprived county.
• If an open FGN is assigned to a different county, CIC emails both offices to alert them that the deprived action may require a transfer.
• CIC builds and assigns an FGN for the other parent and assigns it to the deprived county.

Modifications

• If an existing order is assigned to a district office that does not serve the deprived action and the order needs modification, that office asks the office serving the deprived action to request a deferral to modify the order.

2. No existing order but open FGN

• If there is no child support order but an open FGN, the assigned office may ask the district office serving the juvenile court to request a deferral of jurisdiction to CSS.
• The two offices then coordinate to decide which office will establish and enforce the child support order.

3. Case transfers between district offices

When a transfer to the district office serving the deprived county is required, CSS staff follow these steps:

1. Assigned district office stops processing the child support case. Any previously set genetic testing will still be completed, and any court hearings set at CSS request are struck because the new county’s court will assume jurisdiction.
2. District office serving the deprived action checks the deprived case status, including:
   1. stage of the deprived action;
   2. whether the juvenile court entered orders about paternity or child support;
   3. whether paternity was determined;
   4. whether parental rights were terminated.
3. The district office serving the deprived action establishes and enforces child support and paternity orders for that juvenile deprived action.

4. Special counties (Oklahoma and Tulsa)

• If the deprived action is in Tulsa (TUJ) or Oklahoma County (OKJ), contact TUJ or OKJ first before taking any action.

5. Coordination when an existing child support order exists

• CSS staff coordinate between the currently assigned district office and the district office serving the deprived action.
• Before transfer, the office holding the existing FGN stops pending enforcement court actions but keeps nonjudicial enforcement remedies in place.
• Case transfer is completed per normal case transfer process.
• When the juvenile court action is dismissed, the district office serving the deprived action transfers the case back to the existing FGN office when there is an underlying order or the offices have determined where the case will be assigned.

6. Split Jurisdiction

When there are multiple deprived cases in split jurisdictions

for different children of the same family, the case is assigned to the office serving the county of the deprived action with the lowest jurisdiction number.

Example: If there are multiple deprived cases in Woodward (JD-22-XX)

and Tulsa (JD-21-XX) the case would be assigned to TUJ because that order has a lower court case number.

CIC advises all district offices of the split jurisdiction for the district offices to determine when the cases need to be transferred.

7. Docketing

If a child support order is obtained in the deprived action and the deprived case is dismissed:

• The order is docketed in the county of the original child support order; or
• If there was no prior order, the case is assigned to the office where the family lives (per OAC 340:25-5-124).