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...The department of job and family services is recognized as the agency designated by the United States central authority to perform specific functions under the convention.

...essary, determination of parentage of a child; (4) Establishment of a support order if recognition of a foreign support order is refused under division (B)(2), (4), or (9) of section 3115.708 of the Revised Code; (5) Modification of a support order of a tribunal of this state; (6) Modification of a support order of a tribunal of another state or a foreign country. (C) The following support proceedings are availab...

...rder or determination of parentage of a child. In the proceeding, the law of this state applies. (B) A petitioner may file a direct request seeking recognition and enforcement of a support order or support agreement. In the proceeding, sections 3115.706 to 3115.713 of the Revised Code apply. (C) In a direct request for recognition and enforcement of a convention support order or foreign support agreement, both of t...

...(A) Except as otherwise provided in sections 3115.701 to 3115.713 of the Revised Code, a party who is an individual or a support enforcement agency seeking recognition of a convention support order shall register the order in this state as provided in sections 3115.601 to 3115.616 of the Revised Code. (B) Notwithstanding sections 3115.311 and division (A) of section 3115.602 of the Revised Code, a request for regist...

...(A) Except as otherwise provided in sections 3115.701 to 3115.713 of the Revised Code, sections 3115.605 to 3115.608 of the Revised Code apply to a contest of a registered convention support order. (B) A party contesting a registered convention support order shall file a contest not later than thirty days after notice of the registration, but if the contesting party does not reside in the United States, the contest ...

...e all appropriate measures to request a child-support order for the obligee if the application for recognition and enforcement was received under section 3115.704 of the Revised Code.

...If a court of this state does not recognize and enforce a convention support order in its entirety, it shall enforce any severable part of the order. An application or direct request may seek recognition and partial enforcement of a convention support order.

...(A) Except as otherwise provided in divisions (C) and (D) of this section, a court 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 both of the following: (1) A complete text of the foreign support agreement; (2) A record stating that the foreign ...

... this state may not modify a convention child-support order if the obligee remains a resident of the foreign country where the support order was issued unless one of the following applies: (1) The obligee submits to the jurisdiction of a court of this state, either expressly or by defending on the merits of the case without objecting to the jurisdiction at the first available opportunity. (2) The foreign tribunal l...

...Personal information gathered or transmitted under sections 3115.701 to 3115.713 of the Revised Code may be used only for the purposes for which it was gathered or transmitted.

...A record filed with a court of this state under sections 3115.701 to 3115.713 of the Revised Code must be in the original language and, if not in English, must be accompanied by an English translation.

...(A) For purposes of sections 3115.801 to 3115.802 of the Revised Code, "governor" includes an individual performing the functions of governor or the executive authority of a state covered by this chapter. (B) The governor of this state may do either of the following: (1) Demand that the governor of another state surrender an individual found in the other state who is charged criminally in this state with having fai...

... failed to provide for the support of a child or other individual to whom a duty of support is owed, the governor may require a prosecutor to investigate the demand and report whether a proceeding for support has been initiated or would be effective. If it appears that a proceeding would be effective but has not been initiated, the governor may delay honoring the demand for a reasonable time to permit the initiation ...

...In applying and construing this chapter, consideration shall be given to the need to promote uniformity of the law with respect to its subject matter among states that enact it.

...pport order or determine parentage of a child or to register, recognize, enforce, or modify a prior support order, determination, or agreement, whenever issued or entered.

...If any provision of this chapter or its application to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the invalidity does not affect other provisions or applications of this chapter that can be given effect without the invalid provision or application, and to this end the provisions of this chapter are severable.

...Chapter 3117. of the Revised Code is applicable only in counties in which the court of common pleas determines that social conditions and the number of domestic relations cases in the county render the conciliation procedures provided necessary to proper consideration of such cases or to effectuate conciliation of marital controversies. Such determination shall be made by the judge of the court of common pleas in cou...

...(A) Judges elected under section 2301.03 of the Revised Code as judges of the court of common pleas, division of domestic relations, shall hear all conciliation cases. (B) In counties having more than one judge of the court of common pleas, but no division of domestic relations, the presiding judge or the judges of that court shall designate, in January of each year, one or more of their number to hear all conciliat...

...In each county having a population over one hundred thousand according to the latest federal decennial census, the court of common pleas may appoint one or more conciliation counselors to assist the court in carrying out its functions under this chapter. Conciliation counselors shall do any of the following, as the court may direct: (A) Confer with the parties to conciliation proceedings, and make recommendations co...

...The probation officer in every county shall, upon request of the conciliation judge, in order to carry out the purposes of this chapter, make investigations and reports and render other assistance in conciliation cases, within the limits of the powers and duties granted and imposed by the laws of this state relating to probation officers.

...2) State the name and age of each minor child whose welfare may be affected by the controversy; (3) State the names and addresses of the parties; (4) Name as respondent any other person who has any relation to the controversy, stating his address if known to the petitioner; (5) State any other information that the court by rule requires; (6) Request the aid of the court to effect a reconciliation or an amicab...

...(A) The conciliation judge shall fix a reasonable time and place for hearing on the petition within thirty days after the date it is filed, and shall cause such manner of notice of the filing of the petition and the time and place for hearing as he finds necessary to be given to the parties and respondents. The court may issue a citation to any party or respondent requiring him to appear at the time and place stated ...

...During the period beginning with the filing of the petition for conciliation and continuing until expiration of any court order made pursuant to division (E) of section 3117.06 of the Revised Code, neither spouse may file or proceed with any action for divorce, annulment, or legal separation. The pendency of an action for divorce, annulment, or legal separation does not bar proceedings for conciliation under this ch...

...eedings. (B) Whenever there is a minor child of one or both spouses whose welfare may be affected by the controversy, the conciliation judge shall entertain all conciliation cases properly brought before him. Whenever there is no such minor child, but it appears that reconciliation of the spouses or amicable settlement of the controversy may be achieved, and that conciliation cases involving children will not be ser...

...In any action in which a court child support order is issued or modified, in any other proceeding in which the court determines the amount of child support that will be ordered to be paid pursuant to a child support order, or when a child support enforcement agency determines the amount of child support that will be ordered to be paid pursuant to an administrative child support order, issues a new administrative chi...