Spousal Support Deductions for the US

Use the Spousal Support secondary classification type for spousal support deductions.

These court-ordered payments are for support of a former spouse or a spouse while a divorce is pending.

Multiple Support Orders

If you receive an Income Withholding Order with both child support and spousal support amounts, you don't have to create separate card components. Instead:

Define a Child Support deduction element.
On the person's Involuntary Deductions card, create a card component for the deduction.
Use the Total Withholding Amount override to enter the total amount to withhold from the income withholding order (field 12a).

Set this value to be the combined child and spousal support amounts.
Enter the individual child support and spousal support amounts as appropriate proration overrides.

If both support orders have the same case ID, remittance ID, and payee, you have two options.

Create one child support card component, as described above.
Create separate card components. Each must have a unique reference code.

How to Process Support Orders

Consider the following when you define these element types for the different states.

When you're processing this	How you do it
Michigan support orders	Michigan has different processing fee values for payments remitted by check versus payments remitted electronically. The predefined calculation value definitions support processing fee values for payments by check. If you remit your payments electronically, you must override these values for your legislative data group appropriately. Use the Calculation Value Definitions task to set these overrides. Michigan Spousal Support Maximum Processing Fee Per Month Michigan Spousal Support Processing Fee Per Pay Period Amount For further info, see Set Legislative Rule Overrides for Involuntary Deductions for the US in the Help Center.
Missouri support orders	By default, Missouri spousal support orders follow Federal Consumer Credit Protection Act (CCPA) exemption limits. If you receive an order issued by Missouri IV-D, you must override the Missouri Spousal Support Exemption Percentage on the calculation card component to 50%. For further info, see Overview of Involuntary Deduction Overrides for the US in the Help Center.
Nevada support orders	Nevada requires you withhold the organization fee per employee and not per order, subject to a monthly cap. If an employee receives multiple support orders issued by Nevada, you must override the organization fee to $0 on all active orders but one.
Pennsylvania support orders	Pennsylvania spousal support orders assess a $50 processing fee per employee not per order. For employees that have already met this requirement for their support orders, select Initial Fee Taken for the deduction on their Involuntary Deductions card. For further info, see Configure Involuntary Deduction Details for the US in the Help Center.
Texas support orders	If an employee receives both a child support order and a spousal support order issued from Texas, you must set the processing fee to $0 on the spousal support order. Texas requires that the combined processing fees can't exceed $10. For further info, see Involuntary Deduction Fees for the US in the Help Center. This is an uncommon deduction in Texas.
Wisconsin support orders	Including the Wisconsin receipt and disbursement fee in deductions requires special configuration. For further info, see Oracle Cloud HRMS (US): How to Deduct the Wisconsin Child Support Receipt and Disbursement Fee (1987772.1) on My Oracle Support. Wisconsin allows the processing fee to be taken for multiple orders only when the order is issued from a different state. If an employee receives multiple support orders issued by Wisconsin, you must set the processing fee to $0 on all orders after the first one.