30-3D-507
Section 30-3D-507 Administrative enforcement of orders. (a) A party or support enforcement
agency seeking to enforce a support order or an income-withholding order, or both, issued
in another state or a foreign support order may send the documents required for registering
the order to a support enforcement agency of this state. (b) Upon receipt of the documents,
the support enforcement agency, without initially seeking to register the order, shall consider
and, if appropriate, use any administrative procedure authorized by the law of this state
to enforce a support order or an income-withholding order, or both. If the obligor does not
contest administrative enforcement, the order need not be registered. If the obligor contests
the validity or administrative enforcement of the order, the support enforcement agency shall
register the order pursuant to this chapter. (Act 2015-284, §1.)...
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30-3B-109
Section 30-3B-109 Appearance and limited immunity. (a) When making a special appearance a party
to a child custody proceeding, including a modification proceeding, or a petitioner or respondent
in a proceeding to enforce or register a child custody determination, is not subject to personal
jurisdiction in this state for another proceeding or purpose solely by reason of having participated,
or of having been physically present for the purpose of participating, in the proceeding.
(b) A person who is subject to personal jurisdiction in this state on a basis other than physical
presence is not immune from service of process in this state. A party present in this state
who is subject to the jurisdiction of another state is not immune from service of process
allowable under the laws of that state. (c) The immunity granted by subsection (a) does not
extend to civil litigation based on acts unrelated to the participation in a proceeding under
this chapter committed by an individual while...
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30-3D-316
Section 30-3D-316 Special rules of evidence and procedure. (a) The physical presence of a nonresident
party who is an individual in a tribunal of this state is not required for the establishment,
enforcement, or modification of a support order or the rendition of a judgment determining
parentage of a child. (b) An affidavit, a document substantially complying with federally
mandated forms, or a document incorporated by reference in any of them, which would not be
excluded under the hearsay rule if given in person, is admissible in evidence if given under
penalty of perjury by a party or witness residing outside this state. (c) A copy of the record
of child-support payments certified as a true copy of the original by the custodian of the
record may be forwarded to a responding tribunal. The copy is evidence of facts asserted in
it, and is admissible to show whether payments were made. (d) Copies of bills for testing
for parentage of a child, and for prenatal and postnatal health care of...
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30-3D-708
Section 30-3D-708 Recognition and enforcement of registered Convention support order. (a) Except
as otherwise provided in subsection (b), a tribunal of this state shall recognize and enforce
a registered Convention support order. (b) The following grounds are the only grounds on which
a tribunal of this state may refuse recognition and enforcement of a registered Convention
support order: (1) recognition and enforcement of the order is manifestly incompatible with
public policy, including the failure of the issuing tribunal to observe minimum standards
of due process, which include notice and an opportunity to be heard; (2) the issuing tribunal
lacked personal jurisdiction consistent with Section 30-3D-201; (3) the order is not enforceable
in the issuing country; (4) the order was obtained by fraud in connection with a matter of
procedure; (5) a record transmitted in accordance with Section 30-3D-706 lacks authenticity
or integrity; (6) a proceeding between the same parties and having...
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30-3D-704
Section 30-3D-704 Initiation by the Department of Human Resources of support proceeding under
Convention. (a) In a support proceeding under this article, the Department of Human Resources
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 30-3D-708(b)(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...
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30-3D-202
Section 30-3D-202 Duration of personal jurisdiction. Personal jurisdiction acquired by a tribunal
of this state in a proceeding under this chapter or other law of this state relating to a
support order continues as long as a tribunal of this state has continuing, exclusive jurisdiction
to modify its order or continuing jurisdiction to enforce its order as provided by Sections
30-3D-205, 30-3D-206, and 30-3D-211. (Act 2015-284, §1.)...
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30-3D-710
Section 30-3D-710 Foreign support agreement. (a) Except as otherwise provided in subsections
(c) and (d), a tribunal of this state shall recognize and enforce a foreign support agreement
registered in this state. (b) An application or direct request for recognition and enforcement
of a foreign support agreement must be accompanied by: (1) a complete text of the foreign
support agreement; and (2) a record stating that the foreign support agreement is enforceable
as an order of support in the issuing country. (c) A tribunal of this state may vacate the
registration of a foreign support agreement only if, acting on its own motion, the tribunal
finds that recognition and enforcement would be manifestly incompatible with public policy.
(d) In a contest of a foreign support agreement, a tribunal of this state may refuse recognition
and enforcement of the agreement if it finds: (1) recognition and enforcement of the agreement
is manifestly incompatible with public policy; (2) the agreement...
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26-17-636
Section 26-17-636 Order adjudicating parentage; limitation on liability for education and support;
cost, fees, and expenses. (a) The court shall issue an order adjudicating whether a man alleged
or claiming to be the father is the parent of the child. (b) An order adjudicating parentage
must identify the child by name and date of birth, if known. (c) Except as otherwise provided
in subsection (d), the court may assess filing fees, reasonable attorney's fees, fees for
genetic testing, other costs, and necessary travel and other reasonable expenses incurred
in a proceeding under this article, subject to the following rules: (1) Parties to proceedings
under this chapter should pay the fees and expenses of retained counsel, expert witnesses,
guardians ad litem, the costs of appropriate tests and other costs of the trial as they may,
themselves, incur. The court may order reasonable fees for attorneys, expert witnesses, guardian
ad litem fees, costs of appropriate tests and other costs of...
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30-3-169.3
Section 30-3-169.3 Change of custody. (a) Upon the entry of a temporary order or upon final
judgment permitting the change of principal residence of a child, a court may consider a proposed
change of principal residence of a child as a factor to support a change of custody of the
child. In determining whether a proposed or actual change of principal residence of a minor
child should cause a change in custody of that child, a court shall take into account all
factors affecting the child, including, but not limited to, the following: (1) The nature,
quality, extent of involvement, and duration of the child's relationship with the person proposing
to relocate with the child and with the non-relocating person, siblings, and other significant
persons or institutions in the child's life. (2) The age, developmental stage, needs of the
child, and the likely impact the change of principal residence of a child will have on the
child's physical, educational, and emotional development, taking into...
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30-3D-105
Section 30-3D-105 Application of chapter to resident of foreign country and foreign support
proceeding. (a) A tribunal of this state shall apply Articles 1 through 6 and, as applicable,
Article 7, to a support proceeding involving: (1) a foreign support order; (2) a foreign tribunal;
or (3) an obligee, obligor, or child residing in a foreign country. (b) A tribunal of this
state that is requested to recognize and enforce a support order on the basis of comity may
apply the procedural and substantive provisions of Articles 1 through 6. (c) Article 7 applies
only to a support proceeding under the Convention. In such a proceeding, if a provision of
Article 7 is inconsistent with Articles 1 through 6, Article 7 controls. (Act 2015-284, §1.)...

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