Initiation by Department of Children, Youth, and Families of Support Proceeding under Convention
2014 c 189 s 58,73; 2015 c 71 art 1 s 119; 2024 c 80 art 8 s 70
(a) In a support proceeding under sections 518C.701 to 518C.713, the Department of Human Services of this state shall:
- (1) transmit and receive applications; and
- (2) initiate or facilitate the institution of a proceeding regarding an application in a tribunal of this state.
(b) The following support proceedings are available to an obligee under the convention:
- (1) recognition or recognition and enforcement of a foreign support order;
- (2) enforcement of a support order issued or recognized in this state;
- (3) establishment of a support order if there is no existing order, including, if necessary, determination of parentage of a child;
- (4) establishment of a support order if recognition of a foreign support order is refused under section 518C.708, paragraph (b), clause (2), (4), or (9);
- (5) modification of a support order of a tribunal of this state; and
- (6) modification of a support order of a tribunal of another state or a foreign country.
(c) The following support proceedings are available under the convention to an obligor against which there is an existing support order:
- (1) recognition of an order suspending or limiting enforcement of an existing support order of a tribunal of this state;
- (2) modification of a support order of a tribunal of this state; and
- (3) modification of a support order of a tribunal of another state or a foreign country.
- (d) A tribunal of this state may not require security, bond, or deposit, however described, to guarantee the payment of costs and expenses in proceedings under the convention.