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...If an obligor's employer or other payor receives two or more income-withholding orders with respect to the earnings of the same obligor, the employer or other payor satisfies the terms of the orders if the employer or other payor complies with the law of the state of the obligor's principal place of employment to establish the priorities for withholding and allocating income withheld for two or more child-support obl...

...An employer or other payor that complies with an income-withholding order issued in another state in accordance with sections 3115.501 to 3115.507 of the Revised Code is not subject to 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.

...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...

...ort 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 responding tribunal of this state shall apply the procedures and remedies of this state to enforce current support and collect arrears and...

...(A) When a support order or income-withholding order issued in another state or a foreign support order is registered, the registering tribunal of this state shall notify the nonregistering party. The notice must be accompanied by a copy of the registered order and the documents and relevant information accompanying the order. (B) A notice must inform the nonregistering party of all of the following: (1) That a reg...

...(A) A nonregistering party seeking to contest the validity or enforcement of a registered support order in this state shall request a hearing within the time required by section 3115.605 of the Revised Code. The nonregistering party may seek to vacate the registration, to assert any defense to an allegation of noncompliance with the registered order, or to contest the remedies being sought or the amount of any allege...

...(A) A party contesting the validity or enforcement of a registered support order or seeking to vacate the registration has the burden of proving one or more of the following defenses: (1) The issuing tribunal lacked personal jurisdiction over the contesting party. (2) The order was obtained by fraud. (3) The order has been vacated, suspended, or modified by a later order. (4) The issuing tribunal has stayed the o...

...Confirmation of a registered support order, whether by operation of law or after notice and hearing, precludes further contest of the order with respect to any matter that could have been asserted at the time of registration.

...A party or support enforcement agency seeking to modify, or to modify and enforce, a child-support order issued in another state shall register that order in this state in the same manner provided in sections 3115.601 to 3115.608 of the Revised Code if the order has not been registered. A petition for modification may be filed at the same time as a request for registration, or later. The pleading must specify the gro...

...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.

...(A) If section 3115.613 of the Revised Code does not apply, upon petition a tribunal of this state may modify a child-support order issued in another state which is registered in this state if, after notice and hearing, the tribunal finds either of the following: (1) That all of the following requirements are met: (a) Neither the child, nor the obligee who is an individual, nor the obligor resides in the issuing st...

...o its uniform interstate family support 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.

...(A) If all of the parties who are individuals reside in this state and the child does not reside in the issuing state, a 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 31...

...Within thirty days after issuance of a modified child-support order, the party obtaining the modification shall file a certified copy of the order with the issuing tribunal that had continuing, exclusive jurisdiction over the earlier order, and in each tribunal in which the party knows the earlier order has been registered. A party who obtains the order and fails to file a certified copy is subject to appropriate san...

...(A) Except as otherwise provided in section 3115.711 of the Revised Code, if a foreign country lacks or refuses to exercise jurisdiction to modify its child-support order pursuant to its laws, a court of this state may assume jurisdiction to modify the child-support order and bind all individuals subject to the personal jurisdiction of the court whether the consent to modification of a child-support order otherwise r...

...A party or support enforcement agency seeking to modify, or to modify and enforce, a foreign child-support order not under the convention may register that order in this state under sections 3115.601 to 3115.608 of the Revised Code if the order has not been registered. A petition for modification may be filed at the same time as a request for registration, or at another time. The petition must specify the grounds for...

...As used in sections 3115.701 to 3115.713 of the Revised Code: (A) "Application" means a request under the convention by an obligee or obligor, or on behalf of a child, made through a central authority for assistance from another central authority. (B) "Central authority" means the entity designated by the United States or a foreign country described in division (E)(4) of section 3115.102 of the Revised Code to perf...

...Sections 3115.701 to 3115.713 of the Revised Code apply only to a support proceeding under the convention. In such a proceeding, if a provision of sections 3115.701 to 3115.713 of the Revised Code is inconsistent with sections 3115.102 to 3115.616 of the Revised Code, sections 3115.701 to 3115.713 control.

...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.

...(A) In a support proceeding under sections 3115.701 to 3115.713 of the Revised Code, the support enforcement agency shall do both of the following: (1) Transmit and receive applications; (2) Initiate or facilitate the institution of a proceeding regarding an application in a court of this state. (B) The following support proceedings are available to an obligee under the convention: (1) Recognition or recognition ...