Effective Jan 1, 2016Added by Stats. 2015, Ch. 493, Sec. 5. (SB 646) Effective January 1, 2016.
(a) Except as otherwise provided in this part, this chapter applies to all proceedings under this part.
(b) An individual petitioner or a support enforcement agency may initiate a proceeding authorized under this part by filing a petition in an initiating tribunal for forwarding to a responding tribunal or by filing a petition or a comparable pleading directly in a tribunal of another state or a foreign country which has or can obtain personal jurisdiction over the respondent.