(1) In a support proceeding under ORS 110.645 to 110.669, the Department of Justice shall:
- (a) Transmit and receive applications; and
- (b) Initiate or facilitate the institution of a proceeding regarding an application in a tribunal of this state.
(2) The following support proceedings are available to an obligee under the Convention:
- (a) Recognition or recognition and enforcement of a foreign support order;
- (b) Enforcement of a support order issued or recognized in this state;
- (c) Establishment of a support order if there is no existing order, including, if necessary, determination of parentage of a child;
- (d) Establishment of a support order if recognition of a foreign support order is refused under ORS 110.660 (2)(b), (d) or (i);
- (e) Modification of a support order of a tribunal of this state; and
- (f) Modification of a support order of a tribunal of another state or a foreign country.
(3) The following support proceedings are available under the Convention to an obligor against whom there is an existing support order:
- (a) Recognition of an order suspending or limiting enforcement of an existing support order of a tribunal of this state;
- (b) Modification of a support order of a tribunal of this state; and
- (c) Modification of a support order of a tribunal of another state or a foreign country.
- (4) 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.
[2015 c.298 §65]