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...ng 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.

...btaining 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.

...tribunal of this state shall disburse promptly any amounts received pursuant to a support order, as directed by the order. The agency or tribunal shall furnish to a requesting party or tribunal of another state or a foreign country a certified statement by the custodian of the record of the amounts and dates of all payments received. (B) If neither the obligor, nor the obligee who is an individual, nor the child res...

...(A) If a support order entitled to recognition under this chapter has not been issued, a responding tribunal of this state with personal jurisdiction over the parties may issue a support order if either of the following applies: (1) The individual seeking the order resides outside this state. (2) The support enforcement agency seeking the order is located outside this state. (B) The tribunal may issue a temporary ...

...f this state 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.

...g 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.

...eld from the obligor's income; (3) The times within which the employer or other payor must implement the withholding order and forward the child-support payment.

...the obligor's principal place of employment to establish the priorities for withholding and allocating income withheld for two or more child-support obligees.

...o civil liability to an individual or agency with regard to the employer's or other payor's withholding of child support from the obligor's income.

...ssued 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.

...st 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 tribunal of this state. (B...

...ing 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 author...

...der may be registered in this state for enforcement.

... of this state may be filed at the same time as the request for registration or later. The pleading must specify the grounds for the remedy sought. (D) If two or more orders are in effect, the person requesting registration shall do all of the following: (1) Furnish to the tribunal a copy of every support order asserted to be in effect in addition to the documents specified in this section; (2) Specify the order a...

...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 chapter, a tribunal of this state shall recognize and enforce, but may not m...

...r a registered support order; (2) The computation and payment of arrearages and accrual of interest on the arrearages under the support order; (3) The existence and satisfaction of other obligations under the support order. (B) In a proceeding for arrears under a registered support order, the statute of limitation of this state, or of the issuing state or foreign country, whichever is longer, applies. (C) A respo...

...nforcement of the registered order in a timely manner will result in confirmation of the order and enforcement of the order and the alleged arrearages; (4) The amount of any alleged arrearages. (C) If the registering party asserts that two or more orders are in effect, a notice must also do all of the following: (1) Identify the two or more orders and the order alleged by the registering party to be the controllin...

...ert any defense to an allegation of noncompliance with the registered order, or to contest the remedies being sought or the amount of any alleged arrearages pursuant to section 3115.607 of the Revised Code. (B) If the nonregistering party fails to contest the validity or enforcement of the registered support order in a timely manner, the order is confirmed by operation of law. (C) If a nonregistering party requests...

... Revised Code precludes enforcement of some or all of the alleged arrearages. (8) The alleged controlling order is not the controlling order. (B) If a party presents evidence establishing a full or partial defense under division (A) of this section, a tribunal may stay enforcement of a registered support order, continue the proceeding to permit production of additional relevant evidence, and issue other appropriate...

...er that could have been asserted at the time of registration.

...r modification may be filed at the same time as a request for registration, or later. The pleading must specify the grounds for modification.

...A tribunal of this state may enforce a child-support order of another state registered for purposes of modification, in the same manner as if the order had been issued by a tribunal of this state, but the registered support order may be modified only if the requirements of section 3115.611 or 3115.613 of the Revised Code have been met.

...er state, the tribunal of this state becomes the tribunal having continuing, exclusive jurisdiction. (F) Notwithstanding divisions (A) to (E) of this section and division (B) of section 3115.201 of the Revised Code, a tribunal of this state retains jurisdiction to modify an order issued by a tribunal of this state if both of the following apply: (1) One party resides in another state. (2) The other party resides o...

...act, a tribunal of this state: (A) May enforce its order that was modified only as to arrears and interest accruing before the modification; (B) May provide appropriate relief for violations of its order that occurred before the effective date of the modification; (C) Shall recognize the modifying order of the other state, upon registration, for the purpose of enforcement.

...court of this state has jurisdiction to enforce and to modify the issuing state's child-support order in a proceeding to register that order. (B) A court of this state exercising jurisdiction under this section shall apply the provisions of sections 3115.102 to 3115.211 and sections 3115.601 to 3115.616 of the Revised Code and the procedural and substantive law of this state to the proceeding for enforcement or modi...