Arvidson v. KURAHASHI & ASSOCIATES, INC.

Defendant, plaintiffs former employer, appeals a judgment granting plaintiffs motion for summary judgment and awarding damages for defendant’s chronic late payment of money that defendant had withheld from plaintiffs wages for child support. The threshold question in this case is one of first impression: whether ORS 25.424(2) gives a child-support obligor a claim to recover damages against an employer that withholds child support from the obligor’s pay pursuant to a valid order to withhold, but that fails to timely forward those funds to the state. In an appeal from a judgment granting a…