AGENCY: Department of Health and Human Services. Office of Recovery Services

SERIES: 30636
TITLE: Child support case files
DATES: 2006-
ARRANGEMENT: Alphabetical by client surname.

DESCRIPTION: These records support the agency's mandate to establish and enforce orders for paternity, and child and medical support, and to review and modify child support orders. Case files are created for case participants, including obligors, obligees, and the child or children. Contents of each case file vary according to the individual circumstance of each case, and contain information related to the Office's responsibilities described in Utah Code 26B-9: Recovery Services, and may include the following types of information: Application for Child Support Services, income, employment, medical and dental insurance, copies of judicial court orders, interstate documents, correspondence, and related records. Administrative orders and paternity establishment records are documented within the case file, but are managed as a separate records series.

RETENTION

Retain for 22 year(s) after date of birth of youngest child or for 4 year(s) after case is closed, whichever is greater

DISPOSITION

Destroy.

RETENTION AND DISPOSITION AUTHORIZATION

Retention and disposition for this series were specifically approved by the Records Management Committee.

APPROVED: 10/2023

FORMAT MANAGEMENT

Computer data files: Retain in Office until youngest child reaches 22 years of age or until 4 years after case closure, whichever is later and then delete.

APPRAISAL

Administrative Fiscal Legal

PRIMARY DESIGNATION

Private. Utah Code 63G-2-302(2)(b) (2023)

SECONDARY DESIGNATION

Exempt. Utah Code 63G-2-201(3)(b) (2023)

Public. Utah Code 63G-2-201(2) (2023)

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