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CHAPTER 6. Registration, Enforcement, and Modification of Support Order

Chapter 6 added by Stats. 2015, Ch. 493, Sec. 5.

§§ 5700.601–5700.616 · 16 sections

  1. ARTICLE 1. Registration for Enforcement of Support Order §§ 5700.601–5700.604 · 4 sections
    • § 5700.601 A support order or income-withholding order issued in another state or a foreign support order may be registered in this state for enforcement.
    • § 5700.602 (a) Except as otherwise provided in Section 5700.706, a support order or income-withholding order of another state or a foreign support order may be registered…
    • § 5700.603 (a) A support order or income-withholding order issued in another state or a foreign support order is registered when the order is filed in the registering…
    • § 5700.604 (a) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (d), the law of the issuing state or foreign country governs: (1) the nature, extent, amount, and duration of…
  2. ARTICLE 2. Contest of Validity or Enforcement §§ 5700.605–5700.608 · 4 sections
    • § 5700.605 (a) When a support order or income-withholding order issued in another state or a foreign support order is registered, the registering tribunal of this state…
    • § 5700.606 (a) A nonregistering party seeking to contest the validity or enforcement of a registered support order in this state shall request a hearing within the time…
    • § 5700.607 (a) A party contesting the validity or enforcement of a registered support order or seeking to vacate the registration has the burden of proving one or more of…
    • § 5700.608 Confirmation of a registered support order, whether by operation of law or after notice and hearing, precludes further contest of the order with respect to any…
  3. ARTICLE 3. Registration and Modification of Child-Support Order of Another State §§ 5700.609–5700.614 · 6 sections
    • § 5700.609 A party or support enforcement agency seeking to modify, or to modify and enforce, a child-support order issued in another state shall register that order in…
    • § 5700.610 A tribunal of this state may enforce a child-support order of another state registered for purposes of modification, in the same manner as if the order had…
    • § 5700.611 (a) If Section 5700.613 does not apply, upon petition a tribunal of this state may modify a child-support order issued in another state which is registered in…
    • § 5700.612 If a child-support order issued by a tribunal of this state is modified by a tribunal of another state which assumed jurisdiction pursuant to the Uniform…
    • § 5700.613 (a) If all of the parties who are individuals reside in this state and the child does not reside in the issuing state, a tribunal of this state has…
    • § 5700.614 Within 30 days after issuance of a modified child-support order, the party obtaining the modification shall file a certified copy of the order with the issuing…
  4. ARTICLE 4. Registration and Modification of Foreign Child-Support Order §§ 5700.615–5700.616 · 2 sections
    • § 5700.615 (a) Except as otherwise provided in Section 5700.711, if a foreign country lacks or refuses to exercise jurisdiction to modify its child-support order pursuant…
    • § 5700.616 A party or support enforcement agency seeking to modify, or to modify and enforce, a foreign child-support order not under the Convention may register that…