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...s state that requests registration of a child-support order in this state for enforcement or for modification shall make reasonable efforts to do whichever of the following is relevant: (1) Ensure that the order to be registered is the controlling order; (2) If two or more child-support orders exist and the identity of the controlling order has not been determined, ensure that a request for such a determination is ...

...stablished a reciprocal arrangement for child support with this state and take appropriate action for notification of the determination.

...An individual may employ private counsel to represent the individual in proceedings authorized by this chapter.

...(A) The department of job and family services is the state information agency under this chapter. (B) The state information agency shall do all of the following: (1) Compile and maintain a current list, including addresses, of the tribunals in this state that have jurisdiction under this chapter and any support enforcement agencies in this state and transmit a copy to the state information agency of every other sta...

...port order, to determine parentage of a child, or to register and modify a support order of a tribunal of another state or a foreign country must file a petition. Unless otherwise ordered under section 3115.312 of the Revised Code, the petition or accompanying documents must provide, so far as known, the name, residential address, and social security numbers of the obligor and the obligee or the parent and alleged pa...

...alth, safety, or liberty of a party or child would be jeopardized by disclosure of specific identifying information, that information must be sealed and may not be disclosed to the other party or the public. After a hearing in which a tribunal takes into consideration the health, safety, or liberty of the party or child, the tribunal may order disclosure of information that the tribunal determines to be in the...

...(A) The petitioner may not be required to pay a filing fee or other costs. (B) If an obligee prevails, a responding tribunal of this state may assess against an obligor filing fees, reasonable attorney's fees, other costs, and necessary travel and other reasonable expenses incurred by the obligee and the obligee's witnesses. The tribunal may not assess fees, costs, or expenses against the obligee or the support enfo...

...(A) Participation by a petitioner in a proceeding under this chapter before a responding tribunal, whether in person, by private attorney, or through services provided by the support enforcement agency, does not confer personal jurisdiction over the petitioner in another proceeding. (B) A petitioner is not amenable to service of civil process while physically present in this state to participate in a proceeding unde...

...A party whose parentage of a child has been previously determined by or pursuant to law may not plead nonparentage as a defense to a proceeding under this chapter.

...f 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 payment...

...A tribunal of this state may communicate with a tribunal outside this state in a record or by telephone, electronic mail, or other means to obtain information concerning the laws, the legal effect of a judgment, decree, or order of that tribunal and the status of a proceeding. A tribunal of this state may furnish similar information by similar means to a tribunal outside this state.

...A tribunal of this state may do both of the following: (A) Request a tribunal outside this state to assist in obtaining discovery; (B) Upon request, compel a person over which it has jurisdiction to respond to a discovery order issued by a tribunal outside this state.

...e obligee who is an individual, nor the child resides in this state, upon request from the support enforcement agency of this state or another state, the support enforcement agency of this state or a tribunal of this state shall do both of the following: (1) Direct that the support payment be made to the support enforcement agency in the state in which the obligee is receiving services; and (2) Issue and send to th...

... (B) The tribunal may issue a temporary child-support order if the tribunal determines that such an order is appropriate and the individual ordered to pay is any of the following: (1) A presumed father of the child; (2) Petitioning to have his paternity adjudicated; (3) Identified as the father of the child through genetic testing; (4) An alleged father who has declined to submit to genetic testing; (5) Shown by...

... authorized to determine parentage of a child may serve as a responding tribunal in a proceeding to determine parentage of a child brought under this chapter or a law or procedure substantially similar to this chapter.

...An income-withholding order issued in another state may be sent by or on behalf of the obligee, or by the support enforcement agency, to the person defined as the obligor's employer or other payor under Chapter 3121. of the Revised Code without first filing a petition or comparable pleading or registering the order with a tribunal of this state.

... amount of periodic payments of current child support, stated as a sum certain; (2) The person designated to receive payments and the address to which the payments are to be forwarded; (3) Medical support, whether in the form of periodic cash payment, stated as a sum certain, or ordering the obligor to provide health insurance coverage for the child under a policy available through the obligor's employment; (4) Th...

...ocating income withheld for two or more child-support obligees.

...loyer's or other payor's withholding of child support from the obligor's income.

...An employer or other payor that willfully fails to comply with an income-withholding order issued in another state and received for enforcement is subject to the same penalties that may be imposed for noncompliance with an order issued by a tribunal of this state.

...(A) An obligor may contest the validity or enforcement of an income-withholding order issued in another state and received directly by an employer or other payor in this state by registering the order in a court of this state and filing a contest to that order as provided in sections 3115.601 to 3115.616 of the Revised Code, or otherwise contesting the order in the same manner as if the order had been issued by a tri...

...(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 approp...

...A support order or income-withholding order issued in another state or a foreign support order may be registered in this state for enforcement.

...(A) Except as otherwise provided in section 3115.706 of the Revised Code, a support order or income-withholding order of another state or a foreign support order may be registered in this state by sending the following records to the appropriate tribunal in this state: (1) A letter of transmittal to the tribunal requesting registration and enforcement; (2) Two copies, including one certified copy, of the order to b...

...(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 tribunal of this state. (B) A registered support order issued in another state or a foreign country is enforceable in the same manner and is subject to the same procedures as an order issued by a tribunal of this state. (C) Except as otherwise provided in this c...