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...ection agent that has a contract with a child support enforcement agency pursuant to section 3125.13 of the Revised Code shall be paid to the office of child support. The agency shall forward any amounts collected pursuant to sections 3123.14 and 3123.73 of the Revised Code to the office no later than one day after receipt of those amounts.

...pport orders that are administered by a child support enforcement agency designated under section 307.981 of the Revised Code or former section 2301.35 of the Revised Code and are eligible for Title IV-D services shall be Title IV-D cases under Title IV-D of the "Social Security Act." Subject to division (B) of this section, all obligees of support orders administered by the agency shall be considered to have f...

...The department of job and family services shall charge an application fee of up to twenty-five dollars, as determined by rule adopted by the director of job and family services pursuant to Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, for furnishing services under Title IV-D of the "Social Security Act," 88 Stat. 2351 (1975), 42 U.S.C. 651, as amended, to persons not participating in Ohio works first under Chapter 5107. of the R...

...The department of job and family services shall provide annual reviews of and reports to the secretary of health and human services concerning programs operated under Title IV-D of the "Social Security Act," 88 Stat. 2351 (1975), 42 U.S.C. 651, as amended, pursuant to rules adopted under section 3125.39 of the Revised Code.

...ovement for paternity establishment and child support enforcement from the automatic data processing system required under section 3125.07 of the Revised Code to the secretary of health and human services.

....43 of the Revised Code, the office of child support shall have access to all of the following unless release of the information is prohibited by federal or state law: (1) Any information in the possession of any officer or entity of the state or any political subdivision of the state that would aid the office in locating an absent parent or child pursuant to section 3125.06 of the Revised Code; (2) Any infor...

...Code, may provide such information to a child support enforcement agency at the agency's request or require the agency to request that the office of child support request the information for the agency. The office shall request the information from the person or entity on the request of a child support enforcement agency.

...rovide any information to the office of child support, except as provided in this section. For purposes of the establishment of paternity, the establishment, modification, or enforcement of support orders, and the location of absent parents pursuant to child support enforcement activities and activities to establish and enforce orders allocating parenting rights and responsibilities and parenting time orders, the off...

...The office of child support shall reimburse the department of taxation for the cost of accessing and obtaining the information described in section 3125.43 of the Revised Code.

...An officer or entity of the state or political subdivision of the state or any other person who provides information pursuant to section 3125.41, 3125.42, or 3125.43 of the Revised Code shall not be subject to criminal or civil liability for providing the information.

...No person or entity, other than an officer or entity of the state or a political subdivision of the state, shall fail to provide information as required by section 3125.41 or 3125.42 of the Revised Code.

...A person or entity that violates section 3125.46 of the Revised Code may be fined five hundred dollars.

...The department of job and family services shall file an action in the court of common pleas of Franklin county, requesting that the court impose the fine described in section 3125.47 of the Revised Code for failure to provide information as required by section 3125.41 or 3125.42 of the Revised Code. If the court determines that a person or entity failed to provide the information, it may impose the fine. The court sh...

...Neither the office of child support nor any child support enforcement agency shall use any social security number made available to it under section 3705.07 of the Revised Code for any purpose other than child support enforcement.

...orcement program services provided by a child support enforcement agency; (B) Disclose any information collected pursuant to section 3125.41, 3125.42, or 3125.43 of the Revised Code.

...The director of job and family services shall adopt rules governing access to, and use and disclosure of, the information described in section 3125.50 of the Revised Code. The rules shall be consistent with the requirements of Title IV-D of the "Social Security Act," 88 Stat. 2351 (1975), 42 U.S.C. 651, as amended, and any rules adopted under Title IV-D.

...istence or nonexistence of a parent and child relationship shall establish rules of court to ensure that the following percentage of all actions to establish the existence or nonexistence of a parent and child relationship, to establish a support requirement, or to modify a previously issued court support order are completed within the following time limits: (A) Seventy-five per cent of all of the actions shall be c...

...With respect to a case for the establishment or modification of a support requirement that involves complex legal issues requiring full judicial review, the court shall issue a temporary support order within the time limits set forth in section 3125.58 of the Revised Code. The order shall be in effect until a final support order is issued in the case. All cases in which the imposition of a notice or order under secti...

...(A) In any Title IV-D case, the judge, when necessary to satisfy the federal requirement of expedited process for obtaining court support orders and enforcing support orders, may appoint magistrates to make findings of fact and recommendations for the judge's approval in the case. All magistrates appointed pursuant to this section shall be attorneys admitted to the practice of law in this state. A court that appoints...

...Whoever violates section 3125.50 of the Revised Code shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars, or imprisoned not more than six months, or both.

...ization of emergency medical care for a child.

...(A) Notice required for the exercise of jurisdiction over a person outside this state may be given in a manner prescribed by the Rules of Civil Procedure, or the Rules of Juvenile Procedure, as appropriate, for service of process or by the law of the state in which the service is made. Notice shall be given in a manner reasonably calculated to give actual notice but may be by publication if other means are not effect...

...(A) A court of this state may communicate with a court in another state concerning a proceeding arising under sections 3127.01 to 3127.53 of the Revised Code. (B) The court may give the parties the opportunity to participate in the communication. If the parties are not able to participate in the communication, they shall be given the opportunity to present facts and legal arguments before a decision concerning juris...

...Subject to sections 2101.022 and 2301.03 of the Revised Code, if a proceeding for enforcement under sections 3127.31 to 3127.46 of the Revised Code is commenced in a juvenile court or other court of this state with appropriate jurisdiction and the court determines that a proceeding to modify the determination is pending in a court of another state having jurisdiction to modify the determination under sections 3127.15...

...action reasonably necessary to locate a child or a party and assist the prosecutor or appropriate public official with responsibilities under section 3127.45 of the Revised Code.

...The wireless service provider or reseller shall notify the petitioner within seventy-two hours of receipt of the order and the order shall be automatically suspended upon making the notification if the wireless service provider or reseller cannot operationally or technically effectuate the order due to certain circumstances, including the following: (A) The account holder has already terminated the account. (B) D...

...Upon transfer of the wireless service number to the petitioner, the petitioner shall assume all financial responsibility for any costs associated with the wireless service number and any costs for the device associated with the wireless service number.

...Nothing in sections 3113.45 to 3113.459 of the Revised Code shall preclude a wireless service provider or reseller from applying to the petitioner any routine and customary requirements for account establishment as part of the transfer, including identification, financial information, and customer preferences.

...Nothing in sections 3113.45 to 3113.459 of the Revised Code shall affect the ability of the court to apportion the assets or debts of the parties as provided for in the Revised Code, or the ability to determine temporary use, possession, and control of personal property pursuant to division (E)(1)(h) of section 3113.31 of the Revised Code.

...No cause of action shall arise against the wireless service provider or reseller, its officers, employees, or agents, for any action taken in accordance with sections 3113.45 to 3113.459 of the Revised Code or with the terms of a court order issued in compliance with section 3113.451 of the Revised Code.

... offender has failed to pay the cost of child maintenance under section 3113.06 of the Revised Code for a total accumulated period of twenty-six weeks out of one hundred four consecutive weeks, whether or not the twenty-six weeks were consecutive, a violation of section 3113.06 of the Revised Code is a felony of the fifth degree.

...This chapter may be cited as the "Uniform Interstate Family Support Act of 2008." This chapter uses the numbering system of the national conference of commissioners on uniform state laws. The digits to the right of the decimal point are sequential and not supplemental to any preceding Revised Code section.

...As used in this chapter: (A) "Child" means an individual, whether over or under the age of majority, who is or is alleged to be owed a duty of support by the individual's parent or who is or is alleged to be the beneficiary of a support order directed to the parent. (B) "Child-support order" means a support order for a child, including a child who has attained the age of majority under the law of the issuing state ...

...(A) For purposes of carrying out the duties and responsibilities under this chapter, the juvenile court or the division of the court of common pleas that has jurisdiction over disputes arising under this chapter is the tribunal of this state and for the purposes of initiating a petition an agency designated under section 3125.10 of the Revised Code is also a tribunal of this state. (B) The agencies designated under ...

... tribunal; (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 sections 3115.102 to 3115.616 of the Revised Code. (C) Sections 3115.701 to 3115.713 of the Revised Code apply only to a support proceeding under the convention. In such a pro...

...rt order or to determine parentage of a child, a tribunal or support enforcement agency of this state may exercise personal jurisdiction over a nonresident individual if any of the following apply: (1) The individual is personally served with summons within this state. (2) The individual submits to the jurisdiction of this state by consent in a record, by entering a general appearance, or by filing a responsive d...

...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 3115.205, 3115.206, and 3115.211 of the Revised Code.

...Under this chapter, a tribunal of this state may serve as an initiating tribunal to forward proceedings to a tribunal of another state, and as a responding tribunal for proceedings initiated in another state or a foreign country.

...nt, this state is the home state of the child. (B) A tribunal of this state may not exercise jurisdiction to establish a support order if the petition or comparable pleading is filed before a petition or comparable pleading is filed in another state or a foreign country if all of the following apply: (1) The petition or comparable pleading in the other state or foreign country is filed before the expiration of the ...

...ribunal of this state that has issued a child-support order consistent with the law of this state has and shall exercise continuing, exclusive jurisdiction to modify its child-support order if the order is the controlling order and either of the following applies: (1) At the time of the filing of a request for modification, this state is the residence of the obligor, the individual obligee, or the child for whose ...

...ribunal of this state that has issued a child-support order consistent with the law of this state may serve as an initiating tribunal to request a tribunal of another state to enforce either of the following: (1) The order, if the order is the controlling order and has not been modified by a tribunal of another state that assumed jurisdiction pursuant to its uniform interstate family support act; (2) A money judgme...

...pter and only one tribunal has issued a child-support order, the order of that tribunal controls and must be recognized. (B) If a proceeding is brought under this chapter and two or more child-support orders have been issued by tribunals of this state, another state, or a foreign country with regard to the same obligor and same child, a court of this state having personal jurisdiction over both the obligor and indiv...

...etitions for enforcement of two or more child-support orders in effect at the same time with regard to the same obligor and different individual obligees, at least one of which was issued by a tribunal of another state or a foreign country, a tribunal of this state shall enforce those orders in the same manner as if the orders had been issued by a tribunal of this state.

...for a particular period pursuant to any child-support order against the amounts owed for the same period under any other child-support order for support of the same child issued by a tribunal of this state, another state, or a foreign country.

...A tribunal of this state exercising personal jurisdiction over a nonresident in a proceeding under this chapter, under other law of this state relating to a support order, or recognizing a foreign support order may receive evidence from outside this state pursuant to section 3115.316 of the Revised Code, communicate with a tribunal outside this state pursuant to section 3115.317 of the Revised Code, and obtain discov...

...(A) A tribunal of this state issuing a spousal-support order consistent with the law of this state has continuing, exclusive jurisdiction to modify the spousal-support order throughout the existence of the support obligation. (B) A tribunal of this state may not modify a spousal-support order issued by a tribunal of another state or a foreign country having continuing, exclusive jurisdiction over that order under th...

...(A) Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, sections 3115.301 to 3115.319 of the Revised Code apply to all proceedings under this chapter. (B) An individual petitioner or a support enforcement agency may initiate a proceeding authorized under this chapter 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 tribuna...

...lf of or for the benefit of the minor's child.

...Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, a responding tribunal of this state shall do both of the following: (A) Apply the procedural and substantive law generally applicable to similar proceedings originating in this state and may exercise all powers and provide all remedies available in those proceedings; (B) Determine the duty of support and the amount payable in accordance with the law and support guidelin...

...(A) Upon the filing of a petition authorized by this chapter, an initiating tribunal of this state shall forward the petition and its accompanying documents to whichever of the following is relevant: (1) The responding tribunal or appropriate support enforcement agency in the responding state; (2) If the identity of the responding tribunal is unknown, the state information agency of the responding state with a requ...