Art. 1305.5 Penalties for noncompliance

If an employer gets an income-withholding order from another state and simply ignores it or refuses to follow it on purpose, that employer can be punished just as if they had ignored an order from a Louisiana court. Out-of-state orders carry the same weight as local ones.

This means employers cannot treat orders from other states less seriously. If a company willfully fails to withhold income as directed by a valid order from another state, Louisiana can impose the same penalties it would use for breaking a homegrown court order. The goal is to make sure child support and other payments actually get withheld from paychecks no matter which state issued the original order.