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...) Contact the child support enforcement agency for assistance in obtaining a child support order as defined in section 3119.01 of the Revised Code.

...sed Code, the child support enforcement agency of the county in which a child resides or in which the caretaker of the child resides shall determine the existence or nonexistence of a parent and child relationship between an alleged father and the child if an application for services administered under Title IV-D of the "Social Security Act," 88 Stat. 2351 (1975), 42 U.S.C. 651, as amended, or other IV-D referral has...

...lationship, a child support enforcement agency shall assign an administrative officer to consider the request. The officer shall issue an order requiring the child, mother, and alleged father to submit to genetic testing. The order shall specify the date of the genetic tests for the mother, alleged father, and child, which shall be no later than forty-five days after the date of assignment of the administrative offi...

...rences to the child support enforcement agency or the administrative officer.

...plete report of the test results to the agency.

...hild, the administrative officer of the agency shall issue an administrative order that the alleged father is the father of the child who is the subject of the proceeding. (2) If identical siblings are named as the alleged father under division (A)(1) of this section, the administrative officer shall refer the case to the court and shall not issue an administrative order deciding the paternity of the child who is th...

...ubmit the child to genetic testing, the agency shall enter an administrative order stating that it is inconclusive as to whether the alleged natural father is the natural father of the child.

...ilure to timely bring the action. An agency shall include in an administrative order issued under section 3111.47 of the Revised Code a notice that contains the information described in section 3111.50 of the Revised Code informing the parties of their right to bring an action under sections 3111.01 to 3111.18 of the Revised Code.

... in which the child support enforcement agency that employs the administrative officer who issued the order is located. If the action is not brought within the fourteen-day period, the administrative order is final and enforceable by a court and may not be challenged in an action or proceeding under Chapter 3111. of the Revised Code.

...If a child support enforcement agency issues an administrative order stating that it is inconclusive as to whether the alleged natural father is the natural father of the child, any of the parties may bring an action under sections 3111.01 to 3111.18 of the Revised Code to establish a parent and child relationship.

...Unless the child support enforcement agency has reason to believe that a person named in the order is a potential victim of domestic violence, any administrative order finding the existence of a parent and child relationship shall contain the full names, addresses, and social security numbers of the mother and father of the child who is the subject of the order and the full name and address of the child.

...The child support enforcement agency, as part of an administrative order determining the existence of a parent and child relationship, may order the surname of the child subject to the determination to be changed and order the change to be made on the child's birth record consistent with the order if both the parties agree to the change.

...(A) A child support enforcement agency, in accordance with the rules adopted by the director of job and family services pursuant to division (B) of this section, shall employ an administrative officer, contract with another entity to provide an administrative officer, or contract with an individual to serve as an administrative officer to issue administrative orders determining the existence or nonexistence of a pare...

...The director of job and family services shall adopt in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code rules governing the establishment by child support enforcement agencies of on-site genetic testing programs to be used in actions under sections 3111.01 to 3111.18 of the Revised Code and in administrative procedures under sections 3111.38 to 3111.54 of the Revised Code. The rules shall include provisions relating ...

...A court or child support enforcement agency, whichever is applicable, shall file the following with the office of child support: (A) An order issued pursuant to section 3111.13 of the Revised Code on or after January 1, 1998; (B) An order issued pursuant to section 3111.22 of the Revised Code on or after January 1, 1998, that has become final and enforceable; (C) An order issued pursuant to section 3111.46 of the ...

...t provide the child support enforcement agency, not later than the date scheduled for formally beginning the administrative hearing, all of the following: (A) A copy of each parent's most recently filed federal income tax return and all supporting schedules and documents; (B) A copy of all pay stubs obtained by each parent within the immediately preceding six months; (C) A copy of all other records evidencing t...

...ive officer's child support enforcement agency.

...Each child support enforcement agency may develop a system and procedure for the organized safekeeping and retrieval of administrative support orders for the payment of support and provision for the child's health care.

...ased only to a public children services agency pursuant to section 2151.422 of the Revised Code.

...hild, 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 document having the effect of waiving any co...

... (B) A tribunal or support enforcement agency of this state that has issued a child-support order consistent with the law of this state may not exercise continuing, exclusive jurisdiction to modify the order if either of the following applies: (1) All of the parties who are individuals file consent in a record with the tribunal of this state that a tribunal of another state that has jurisdiction over at least one...

...ual 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 tribunal of another state or a foreign country that has or can obtain personal jurisdiction over the respondent.

...) When a responding support enforcement agency of this state receives a petition or comparable pleading from an initiating tribunal or directly pursuant to division (B) of section 3115.301 of the Revised Code, it shall cause the petition or pleading to be filed and notify the petitioner where and when it was filed. (B) A responding tribunal of this state, to the extent not prohibited by other law, may do one or more...

...in cases filed by a support enforcement agency.

... the obligee or the support enforcement agency of either the initiating or responding state or foreign country, except as provided by other law. Attorney's fees may be taxed as costs, and may be ordered paid directly to the attorney, who may enforce the order in the attorney's own name. Payment of support owed to the obligee has priority over fees, costs, and expenses. (C) The tribunal shall order the payment of cos...