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...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.

...hout first filing a petition or comparable pleading or registering the order with a tribunal of this state.

...age for the child under a policy available through the obligor's employment; (4) The amount of periodic payments of fees and costs for a support enforcement agency, the issuing tribunal, and the obligee's attorney, stated as sums certain; (5) The amount of periodic payments of arrearages and interest on arrearages, stated as sums certain. (D) An employer or other payor shall comply with the law of the state of the...

...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.

...ompliance with an order issued by a tribunal of this state.

...s if the order had been issued by a tribunal of this state. (B) The obligor shall give notice of the contest to all of the following: (1) A support enforcement agency providing services to the obligee; (2) Each employer or other payor that has directly received an income-withholding order relating to the obligor; (3) The person designated to receive payments in the income-withholding order or, if no person is des...

...(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...

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

...ropriate 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 be registered, including any modification of the order; (3) A sworn statement by the person requesting registration or a certified statement by the custodian of the records showing the amount of any arrearage; (4) The name of the obligo...

...e 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 modify, a registered support order if the issu...

...state to enforce current support and collect arrears and interest due on a support order of another state or a foreign country registered in this state. (D) After a tribunal of this state or another state determines which is the controlling order and issues an order consolidating arrears, if any, a tribunal of this state shall prospectively apply the law of the state or foreign country issuing the controlling order,...

...egistered 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 registered support order is enforceable as of the date of registration in the same manner as an order issued by a tribunal of this state; (2) That a hearing to contest the validity or enforcement of the registered order must be requested within twe...

...est 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 a hearing to contest the validity or enforcement of the registered support order, the ...

...des 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 orders. An uncontes...

...respect to any matter that could have been asserted at the time of registration.

...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.

... the parties who are individuals have filed consents in a record in the issuing tribunal for a tribunal of this state to modify the support order and assume continuing, exclusive jurisdiction. (B) Modification of a registered child-support order is subject to the same requirements, procedures, and defenses that apply to the modification of an order issued by a tribunal of this state and the order may be enforced and...

...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.

...t 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 modification. Sections 3115.301 to 3115.507 and sections 3115.701 to 3115.802 of the Revised Code do not apply.

...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 sanctions by a tribunal in which the issue of failure to file arises. The failure to file does not affect the validity or enforceability of the modified order of the new tribunal having continuing, exclusive jurisdiction.

...risdiction of the court whether the consent to modification of a child-support order otherwise required of the individual pursuant to section 3115.611 of the Revised Code has been given or whether the individual seeking modification is a resident of this state or of the foreign country. (B) An order issued by a court of this state modifying a foreign child-support order pursuant to this section is the controlling or...

...d. 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 modification.

...(D) "Direct request" means a petition filed by an individual in a tribunal of this state in a proceeding involving an obligee, obligor, or child residing outside the United States. (E) "Foreign central authority" means the entity designated by a foreign country described in division (E)(4) of section 3115.102 of the Revised Code to perform the functions specified in the convention. (F) "Foreign support agreement" m...