Utah Code § 81-6-203 — Utah Code / Title 81 / Chapter 81-6 / § 81-6-203
§ 81-6-203. Determination of gross income for child support -- Imputing income to a parent.
Status: in_force

(1) (a) Each parent shall provide verification of current income to the court or administrative agency. (b) Each parent shall provide year-to-date pay stubs or employer statements and complete copies of tax returns from at least the most recent year, unless the court finds the verification is not reasonably available. (c) Verification of income from records maintained by the Department of Workforce Services may be substituted for pay stubs, employer statements, and income tax returns. (2) (a) To calculate gross income of a parent, the court or administrative agency may include: (i) prospective income of the parent, including income from earned and nonearned sources, such as salaries, wages, commissions, royalties, bonuses, rents, gifts from anyone, prizes, dividends, severance pay, pensions, interest, trust income, alimony from previous marriages, annuities, capital gains, Social Security benefits, worker compensation benefits, unemployment compensation, income replacement disability insurance benefits, Social Security Disability Insurance, and payments from nonmeans-tested government programs; and (ii) income imputed to the parent as described in Subsection (6). (b) Income from earned income sources is limited to the equivalent of one full-time 40-hour job. (c) If and only if during the time before the original support order, the parent normally and consistently worked more than 40 hours at the parent's job, the court may consider this extra time as a pattern in calculating the parent's ability to provide child support. (3) (a) The court or administrative agency shall use historical and current earnings to determine whether an underemployment or overemployment situation exists. (b) When establishing or modifying a child support order for an obligor who is a parent and incarcerated, the office shall follow the requirements of Section 81-6-211.5. (4) (a) To calculate income from self-employment or operation of a business, the court or administrative agency: (i) shall calculate gross income from self-employment or operation of a business by subtracting necessary expenses required for self-employment or business operation from gross receipts; (ii) shall review income and expenses from self-employment or operation of a business to determine an appropriate level of gross income available to the parent to satisfy a child support award; and (iii) may only deduct those expenses necessary to allow the business to operate at a reasonable level from gross receipts. (b) Gross income determined under this Subsection (4) may differ from the amount of business income determined for tax purposes. (5) When possible, the court or administrative agency shall determine the average monthly gross income for each parent by: (a) calculating the gross income of each parent on an annual basis; and (b) dividing the annual gross income for each parent by 12. (6) (a) The court or administrative agency may not impute income to a parent unless the parent stipulates to the amount imputed, the parent defaults, or, in contested cases, a hearing is held and the court or administrative agency enters findings of fact as to the evidentiary basis for the imputation. (b) If income is imputed to a parent, the court or administrative agency shall base income upon employment potential and probable earnings considering, to the extent known: (i) employment opportunities; (ii) work history; (iii) occupation qualifications; (iv) educational attainment; (v) literacy; (vi) age; (vii) health; (viii) criminal record; (ix) other employment barriers and background factors; and (x) prevailing earnings and job availability for persons of similar backgrounds in the community. (c) If a parent has no recent work history or a parent's occupation is unknown, the court or administrative agency may impute an income to that parent at the federal minimum wage for a 40-hour work week. (d) To impute a greater or lesser income, the court or administrative agency shall enter specific findings of fact as to the evidentiary basis for the imputation. (e) The court or administrative agency may not impute income to a parent if any of the following conditions exist and the condition is not of a temporary nature: (i) the reasonable costs of child care for the parents' minor child approach or equal the amount of income the custodial parent can earn; (ii) a parent is physically or mentally unable to earn minimum wage; (iii) a parent is engaged in career or occupational training to establish basic job skills; or (iv) unusual emotional or physical needs of a child require the custodial parent's presence in the home. (7) Notwithstanding Subsection (2), the court or administrative agency may not include the following sources of income when calculating the gross income of a parent: (a) cash assistance provided under Title 35A, Chapter 3, Part 3, Family Employment Program; (b) benefits received under a housing subsidy program, the Job Training Partnership Act, Supplemental Security Income, Medicaid, SNAP benefits, or General Assistance; (c) other similar means-tested welfare benefits received by a parent; (d) the earned income of a child who is the subject of a child support award; or (e) except as otherwise provided in Subsection (8), the benefits to a child in the child's own right, such as Supplemental Security Income. (8) (a) The court or administrative agency shall credit, as child support, the amount of social security benefits received by a child due to the earnings of the parent on whose earning record the social security benefits are based by crediting the amount against the potential obligation of that parent. (b) The court or administrative agency may consider other unearned income of a child as income of a parent depending upon the circumstances of each case.
Utah Code § 81-12-103 — Utah Code / Title 81 / Chapter 81-12 / § 81-12-103
§ 81-12-103. Actions for abduction prevention measures.
Status: in_force

(1) A court on the court's own motion may order abduction prevention measures in a child custody proceeding if the court finds that the evidence establishes a credible risk of abduction of the minor child. (2) A party to a child custody determination or another individual or entity having a right under the law of this state or any other state to seek a child custody determination for the minor child may file a petition seeking abduction prevention measures to protect the minor child under this chapter. (3) A prosecutor or public authority designated under Section 81-11-315 may seek a warrant to take physical custody of a minor child under Section 81-12-108 or other appropriate prevention measures.
Utah Code § 81-10-302 — Utah Code / Title 81 / Chapter 81-10 / § 81-10-302
§ 81-10-302. Proceeding for temporary custody -- Order.
Status: in_force

(1) (a) After a deploying parent receives notice of deployment and until the deployment terminates, a court may issue a temporary order granting custodial responsibility unless prohibited by Section 39A-6-105 and the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act, 50 U.S.C. Appendix Sections 521 and 522. (b) A court may not issue a permanent order granting custodial responsibility without the consent of the deploying parent. (2) (a) At any time after a deploying parent receives notice of deployment, either parent may file a motion regarding custodial responsibility of a child during deployment. (b) The motion shall be filed in a pending proceeding for custodial responsibility in a court with jurisdiction under Section 81-10-103 or, if there is no pending proceeding in a court with jurisdiction under Section 81-10-103, in a new action for granting custodial responsibility during deployment.
Utah Code § 81-4-206 — Utah Code / Title 81 / Chapter 81-4 / § 81-4-206
§ 81-4-206. Rights and remedies -- Imprisonment of spouse.
Status: in_force

If a party to an action for separate maintenance is imprisoned in the state prison for a sentence of one year or more and a suitable provision of support has not been made for the other party, the rights and remedies of this part shall be extended to the party that is not imprisoned.
Utah Code § 81-5-402 — Utah Code / Title 81 / Chapter 81-5 / § 81-5-402
§ 81-5-402. Effect of registration.
Status: in_force

(1) An unmarried biological father who desires to be notified of a proceeding for adoption of a child must file a notice of the initiation of parentage proceedings as required by Sections 81-13-207, 81-13-212, and 81-13-213. (2) A registrant shall promptly notify the registry in a record of any change in the information registered. (3) The Office of Vital Records and Statistics shall incorporate all new information received into its records but need not affirmatively seek to obtain current information for incorporation in the registry.
Utah Code § 81-8-402 — Utah Code / Title 81 / Chapter 81-8 / § 81-8-402
§ 81-8-402. Proceeding to determine parentage.
Status: in_force

A tribunal of this state authorized to determine parentage of a child may serve as a responding tribunal in a proceeding to determine parentage brought under this chapter or a law or procedure substantially similar to this chapter.
Utah Code § 81-8-704 — Utah Code / Title 81 / Chapter 81-8 / § 81-8-704
§ 81-8-704. Initiation by Department of Health and Human Services of support proceeding under convention.
Status: in_force

(1) In a support proceeding under this part, the Utah Department of Health and Human Services shall: (a) transmit and receive applications; and (b) initiate or facilitate the institution of a proceeding regarding an application in a tribunal of this state. (2) The following support proceedings are available to an obligee under the convention: (a) recognition or recognition and enforcement of a foreign support order; (b) enforcement of a support order issued or recognized in this state; (c) establishment of a support order if there is no existing order, including, if necessary, determination of parentage of a child; (d) establishment of a support order if recognition of a foreign support order is refused under Subsection 81-8-708(2)(b), (d), or (i); (e) modification of a support order of a tribunal of this state; and (f) modification of a support order of a tribunal of another state or a foreign country. (3) The following support proceedings are available under the convention to an obligor against which there is an existing support order: (a) recognition of an order suspending or limiting enforcement of an existing support order of a tribunal of this state; (b) modification of a support order of a tribunal of this state; and (c) modification of a support order of a tribunal of another state or a foreign country. (4) A tribunal of this state may not require security, bond, or deposit, however described, to guarantee the payment of costs and expenses in proceedings under the convention.
Utah Code § 81-5-503 — Utah Code / Title 81 / Chapter 81-5 / § 81-5-503
§ 81-5-503. Requirements for genetic testing.
Status: in_force

(1) Genetic testing must be of a type reasonably relied upon by experts in the field of genetic testing and performed in a testing laboratory accredited by: (a) the American Association of Blood Banks, or a successor to its functions; (b) the American Society for Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics, or a successor to its functions; or (c) an accrediting body designated by the federal Secretary of Health and Human Services. (2) (a) A specimen used in genetic testing may consist of one or more samples, or a combination of samples, of blood, buccal cells, bone, hair, or other body tissue or fluid. (b) The specimen used in the testing need not be of the same kind for each individual undergoing genetic testing.
Utah Code § 81-5-706 — Utah Code / Title 81 / Chapter 81-5 / § 81-5-706
§ 81-5-706. Effect of dissolution of marriage.
Status: in_force

(1) If a marriage is dissolved before placement of eggs, sperm, or an embryo, the former spouse is not a parent of the resulting child unless the former spouse consented in a record that if assisted reproduction were to occur after a divorce, the former spouse would be a parent of the child. (2) The consent of the former spouse to assisted reproduction may be revoked by that individual in a record at any time before placement of eggs, sperm, or embryos.
Utah Code § 81-3-105 — Utah Code / Title 81 / Chapter 81-3 / § 81-3-105
§ 81-3-105. Separate debts.
Status: in_force

(1) A married individual is not personally liable for the separate debts, obligations, or liabilities of the individual's spouse that are: (a) contracted or incurred before marriage; (b) contracted or incurred during marriage, except family expenses as provided in Section 81-3-109; (c) contracted or incurred after divorce or an order for separate maintenance under Chapter 4, Dissolution of Marriage, except that the individual is personally liable for any support ordered by a court as described in Chapter 6, Child Support, or an administrative agency as described in Title 26B, Chapter 9, Recovery Services and Administration of Child Support; or (d) ordered by the court to be paid by the individual's spouse under Chapter 4, Dissolution of Marriage, and not in conflict with Section 15-4-6.5 or 15-4-6.7. (2) A creditor of a married individual may not reach the wages, earnings, property, rents, or other income of the individual's spouse to satisfy a debt, obligation, or liability of the individual under Subsection (1).
Utah Code § 81-8-501 — Utah Code / Title 81 / Chapter 81-8 / § 81-8-501
§ 81-8-501. Employer's receipt of income-withholding order of another state.
Status: in_force

An income-withholding order issued in another state may be sent by or on behalf of the obligee, or by the child support services agency, to the person defined as the obligor's employer under Title 26B, Chapter 9, Part 3, Income Withholding in IV-D Cases, and Title 26B, Chapter 9, Part 4, Income Withholding in Non IV-D Cases, without first filing a petition or comparable pleading or registering the order with a tribunal of this state.
Utah Code § 81-6-211.5 — Utah Code / Title 81 / Chapter 81-6 / § 81-6-211.5
§ 81-6-211.5. Child support orders for an incarcerated obligor -- Suspension -- Exceptions.
Status: in_force

(1) The office may not treat incarceration of 90 or more consecutive days as voluntary unemployment in establishing or modifying a child support order. (2) (a) Except as provided in Subsection (2)(c), for any period of 90 or more consecutive days of the obligor's incarceration, suspension of a money judgment or support order issued in this state for an obligor ordered to pay child support shall occur by operation of law. (b) For a suspension under Subsection (2)(a), the office shall: (i) retroactively date the period of suspension to the date on which the office notified the required parties of the suspension, with the eligible period beginning on the first day of the first full month of the date that the office provided the parties with the notification; (ii) issue a balance credit for any funds collected during the period of suspension, unless the funds have already been distributed, in which case, the funds may not be credited or otherwise recovered; and (iii) resume the obligation described in Subsection (2)(a) on the first day of the first full month that occurs once 90 days have passed after the day on which the obligor is released from incarceration. (c) The office may not suspend an obligation under Subsection (2)(a) if the obligor is incarcerated for: (i) criminal non-payment of a child support order; or (ii) an offense against the inmate's child or custodial parent of the inmate's child. (3) The suspension described in Subsection (2)(a) is only applicable for an obligor whose term of incarceration begins on or after January 1, 2027.
Utah Code § 81-8-305 — Utah Code / Title 81 / Chapter 81-8 / § 81-8-305
§ 81-8-305. Duties and powers of responding tribunal.
Status: in_force

(1) When a responding tribunal of this state receives a petition or comparable pleading from an initiating tribunal or directly in accordance with Subsection 81-8-301(2), the responding tribunal shall cause the petition or pleading to be filed and notify the petitioner where and when the petition or pleading was filed. (2) A responding tribunal of this state, to the extent not prohibited by other law, may do one or more of the following: (a) establish or enforce a support order, modify a child support order, determine the controlling child support order, or determine parentage of a child; (b) order an obligor to comply with a support order, specifying the amount and the manner of compliance; (c) order income withholding; (d) determine the amount of any arrearages and specify a method of payment; (e) enforce orders by civil or criminal contempt, or both; (f) set aside property for satisfaction of the support order; (g) place liens and order execution on the obligor's property; (h) order an obligor to keep the tribunal informed of the obligor's current residential address, electronic mail address, telephone number, employer, address of employment, and telephone number at the place of employment; (i) issue a bench warrant for an obligor who has failed after proper notice to appear at a hearing ordered by the tribunal and enter the bench warrant in any local and state computer systems for criminal warrants; (j) order the obligor to seek appropriate employment by specified methods; (k) award reasonable attorney fees and other fees and costs; and (l) grant any other available remedy. (3) A responding tribunal of this state shall include in a support order issued under this chapter, or in the documents accompanying the order, the calculations on which the support order is based. (4) A responding tribunal of this state may not condition the payment of a support order issued under this chapter upon compliance by a party with provisions for parent-time. (5) If a responding tribunal of this state issues an order under this chapter, the tribunal shall send a copy of the order to the petitioner and the respondent and to the initiating tribunal, if any. (6) If requested to enforce a support order, arrears, or judgment or modify a support order stated in a foreign currency, a responding tribunal of this state shall convert the amount stated in the foreign currency to the equivalent amount in dollars under the applicable official or market exchange rate as publicly reported.
Utah Code § 81-12-111 — Utah Code / Title 81 / Chapter 81-12 / § 81-12-111
§ 81-12-111. Relation to Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act.
Status: in_force

This chapter modifies, limits, and supersedes the federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act, 15 U.S.C. Section 7001, et seq., but does not modify, limit, or supersede Section 101(c) of the act, 15 U.S.C. Section 7001(c), or authorize electronic delivery of any of the notices described in Section 103(b) of that act, 15 U.S.C. Section 7003(b).
Utah Code § 81-13-103 — Utah Code / Title 81 / Chapter 81-13 / § 81-13-103
§ 81-13-103. Court hearings -- Adoption documents -- Motion to intervene.
Status: in_force

(1) (a) Notwithstanding Section 80-4-106, the court may close to the public any court hearing regarding an adoption upon the request of a party to the petition for adoption. (b) In a closed hearing, the court may only admit the following individuals: (i) a party to the proceeding; (ii) the adoptee; (iii) a representative of an agency having custody of the adoptee; (iv) in a hearing to relinquish parental rights, the individual whose rights are to be relinquished and invitees of that individual to provide emotional support; (v) in a hearing on the termination of parental rights, the individual whose rights may be terminated; (vi) in a hearing on a petition to intervene, the proposed intervenor; (vii) in a hearing to finalize an adoption, invitees of the petitioner; and (viii) other individuals for good cause, upon order of the court. (2) Except as provided in Subsections (3) through (7), an adoption document and any other documents filed in connection with a petition for adoption are sealed. (3) A person may only inspect and copy the documents described in Subsection (2): (a) if the adoption proceeding is pending and the person is a party to the adoption proceeding; (b) within 180 days after the day on which the final decree of adoption is entered if the person is a party to the adoption proceeding; (c) if the court enters an order expressly permitting the inspection or copying the documents after the person filed a motion to intervene and the motion to intervene was granted on appeal; (d) if the court enters an order expressly permitting the inspection or copying of the documents after good cause is shown; (e) if the office is permitted to release the documents to the person as described in Section 81-13-504; (f) when the documents become public 100 years after the day on which the final decree of adoption was entered; (g) when the birth certificate becomes public 100 years after the day on which the adoptee was born; or (h) if the person is permitted access to the documents under Subsection (6) or (7). (4) A person who files a motion to intervene in an adoption proceeding: (a) is not a party to the adoption proceeding, unless the motion to intervene is granted; and (b) subject to Subsection (5), may not be granted access to the documents described in Subsection (2), unless the motion to intervene is granted. (5) If the court enters an order under Subsection (3)(c) or a potential birth father is made a party to the adoption proceeding upon a motion to intervene, the court shall: (a) prohibit the person described in Subsection (3)(c) or the potential birth father from inspecting a document described in Subsection (2) that contains identifying information of an adoptive or prospective adoptive parent; and (b) permit the person described in Subsection (3)(c) or the potential birth father to review a copy of the document described in Subsection (5)(a) after the identifying information of the adoptive or prospective adoptive parent is redacted from the document. (6) (a) Unless there is a court order sealing the documents, a child adoptee may inspect and copy the following documents associated with the child adoptee's adoption, without a court order, regardless of the date of the adoption, if the child adoptee is 18 years old or older: (i) the report of adoption; (ii) the original birth certificate; (iii) the findings of fact for the adoption; and (iv) the final decree of adoption. (b) The physical addresses of a pre-existing parent shall be redacted before the child adoptee may inspect and copy the documents described in Subsection (6)(a). (c) A pre-existing parent of a child adoptee may bring a petition in the court that entered the final decree of adoption to keep the documents described in Subsection (6)(a) sealed for 10 years. (d) The pre-existing parent shall include in the petition sufficient information for the court to reliably determine the adoption documents at issue in the petition. (e) The court may only grant the petition described in Subsection (6)(c) if the pre-existing parent establishes by sworn affidavit that the child adoptee's access to the documents described in Subsection (6)(a) would place the pre-existing parent in reasonable fear of harm from an individual. (f) If the court grants a pre-existing parent's petition, the documents described in Subsection (6)(a) shall remain sealed for 10 years from the entry of the order, unless the court permits access to the documents under Subsection (3)(d). (g) The pre-existing parent may bring a new petition every 10 years for an order extending the sealing of the documents described in Subsection (6)(a) for an additional 10 years. (h) The pre-existing parent shall file a petition described in Subsection (6)(g) before the expiration of the previous order. (i) A petition to extend the sealing of the documents described in Subsection (6)(a) shall satisfy all of the requirements described in Subsections (6)(c) through (e) for the original petition. (7) An adult adoptee, or the adoptive parent of the adult adoptee, may inspect an adoption document associated with the adult adoptee's adoption without a court order, unless the final decree of adoption is entered by the juvenile court. (8) A pre-existing parent may not access the documents described in Subsection (2).
Utah Code § 81-8-319 — Utah Code / Title 81 / Chapter 81-8 / § 81-8-319
§ 81-8-319. Receipt and disbursement of payments.
Status: in_force

(1) (a) A child support services agency or tribunal of this state shall disburse promptly any amounts received pursuant to a support order, as directed by the order. (b) 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. (2) If neither the obligor, nor the obligee who is an individual, nor the child resides in this state, upon request from the child support services agency of this state or another state, the Office of Recovery Services or a tribunal of this state shall: (a) direct that the support payment be made to the child support services agency in the state in which the obligee is receiving services; and (b) issue and send to the obligor's employer a conforming income-withholding order or an administrative notice of change of payee, reflecting the redirected payments. (3) The child support services agency of this state receiving redirected payments from another state pursuant to a law similar to Subsection (2) shall furnish to a requesting party or tribunal of the other state a certified statement by the custodian of the record of the amount and dates of all payments received.
Utah Code § 81-11-109 — Utah Code / Title 81 / Chapter 81-11 / § 81-11-109
§ 81-11-109. Communication between courts.
Status: in_force

(1) As used in this section: (a) "Record" means information that is inscribed on a tangible medium or that which is stored in an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in perceivable form. (b) "Record" includes: (i) notes or transcripts of a court reporter who listened to a conference call between the courts; (ii) an electronic recording of a telephone call; (iii) a memorandum or an electronic record of the communication between the courts; or (iv) a memorandum or an electronic record made by a court after the communication. (2) A court of this state may communicate with a court in another state concerning a proceeding arising under this chapter. (3) (a) The court may allow the parties to participate in the communication. (b) If the parties are not able to participate in the communication, the parties shall be given the opportunity to present facts and legal arguments before a decision on jurisdiction is made. (4) (a) A communication between courts on schedules, calendars, court records, and similar matters may occur without informing the parties. (b) A record need not be made of that communication. (5) (a) Except as provided in Subsection (4), a record shall be made of the communication. (b) The parties shall be informed promptly of the communication and granted access to the record.
Utah Code § 81-5-306 — Utah Code / Title 81 / Chapter 81-5 / § 81-5-306
§ 81-5-306. Proceeding for rescission.
Status: in_force

(1) A signatory may rescind a declaration of paternity or denial of paternity by filing a voluntary rescission document with the Office of Vital Records and Statistics in a form prescribed by the Office of Vital Records and Statistics before the earlier of: (a) 60 days after the effective date of the declaration or denial, as provided in Sections 81-5-303 and 81-5-304; or (b) the date of notice of the first adjudicative proceeding to which the signatory is a party, before a tribunal to adjudicate an issue relating to the child, including a proceeding that establishes support. (2) Upon receiving a voluntary rescission document from a signatory under Subsection (1), the Office of Vital Records and Statistics shall provide notice of the rescission, by mail, to the other signatory at the last-known address of that signatory.
Utah Code § 81-13-210 — Utah Code / Title 81 / Chapter 81-13 / § 81-13-210
§ 81-13-210. Custody pending final decree.
Status: in_force

(1) Except as otherwise provided by the court, once a petitioner has received the adoptee into the petitioner's home and a petition for adoption has been filed, the petitioner is entitled to the custody and control of the child adoptee and is responsible for the care, maintenance, and support of the adoptee, including any necessary medical or surgical treatment, pending further order of the court. (2) (a) Once a child adoptee has been placed with, relinquished to, or ordered into the custody of a child-placing agency for purposes of adoption, the agency shall have custody and control of the child adoptee and is responsible for the child adoptee's care, maintenance, and support. (b) Subject to Subsection (3)(c), the child-placing agency may delegate the responsibility for care, maintenance, and support, including any necessary medical or surgical treatment, to the petitioner once the petitioner has received the child adoptee into the petitioner's home, including a temporary place of abode for the petitioner. (c) Until the final decree of adoption is entered by the court, the child-placing agency has the right to the custody and control of the child adoptee. (3) (a) A licensed child-placing agency, or a petitioner if the petition of adoption is filed before a child adoptee's birth, may seek an order establishing that the child-placing agency or petitioner shall have temporary custody of the child adoptee from the time of the child adoptee's birth. (b) The court shall grant an order for temporary custody under Subsection (3)(a) upon determining that: (i) the birth mother or both birth parents consent to the order; (ii) the child-placing agency or petitioner is willing and able to take custody of the child adoptee; and (iii) an order will be in the best interest of the child adoptee. (c) The court shall vacate an order if, before the child adoptee's birth, the birth mother or both birth parents withdraw consent to the order.
Utah Code § 81-13-106 — Utah Code / Title 81 / Chapter 81-13 / § 81-13-106
§ 81-13-106. Compact for Interstate Sharing of Putative Father Registry Information -- Severability clause.
Status: in_force

COMPACT FOR INTERSTATE SHARINGOF PUTATIVE FATHER REGISTRY INFORMATIONARTICLE IPURPOSEThis compact enables the sharing of putative father registry information collected by a state that is a party to the compact with all other states that are parties to the compact.ARTICLE IIDEFINITIONS(1) "Putative father" means a man who may be the biological father of a child because the man had a sexual relationship with a woman to whom he is not married.(2) "Putative father registry" mean a registry of putative fathers maintained and used by a state as part of its legal process for protecting a putative father's rights.(3) "State" includes a state, district, or territory of the United States.ARTICLE IIIENTRY, WITHDRAWAL, AND AMENDMENTS(1) A state is a party to this compact upon enactment of this compact by the state into state law.(2) Upon providing at least 60 days' notice of withdrawal from this compact to each party to the compact and repealing the compact from state law, a state is no longer party to this compact.(3) This compact is amended upon enactment of the amendment into state law by each party to the compact.ARTICLE IVINTERSTATE SHARING OF PUTATIVE FATHER REGISTRY INFORMATION(1) A party to this compact shall communicate information in its putative father registry about a specific putative father to any other party to this compact in a timely manner upon request by the other party.(2) A party to this compact is not required to have a putative father registry in order to request putative father registry information from another party to the compact.(3) Putative father registry information requested by a party to this compact from another party to this compact is subject to the laws of the requesting party governing the privacy, retention, and authorized uses of putative father information or, if the requesting party does not have a putative father registry, the laws of the party supplying the information governing the privacy, retention, and authorized uses of putative father information.(4) Notwithstanding Article IV, Subsection (3) of this compact, the request for or receipt of putative father registry information by a party to this compact from another party to this compact does not affect the application of the requesting party's laws, including laws regarding adoption or the protection of a putative father's rights, except as explicitly provided by the requesting party's laws.(5) Failure by a party to this compact to provide accurate putative father registry information in a timely manner to another party to this compact upon request does not affect application of the requesting party's laws, including laws governing adoption and the protection of a putative father's rights, except as explicitly provided by the requesting party's laws.(6) Each party to this compact shall work with every other party to this compact to facilitate the timely communication of putative father registry information between compact parties upon request.ARTICLE VSEVERABILITYThe provisions of this compact are severable. If any provision of this compact or the application of any provision of this compact to any person or circumstance is held invalid by a final decision of a court of competent jurisdiction for a state that is a member of this compact, the remainder of this compact shall be given effect within that state without the invalid provision or application. If a provision of this compact is severed in one or more states as a result of one or more court decisions, the provision shall remain in force in all other states that are parties to this compact.
Utah Code § 81-3-109 — Utah Code / Title 81 / Chapter 81-3 / § 81-3-109
§ 81-3-109. Family expenses -- Joint and several liability.
Status: in_force

(1) As used in this section: (a) "Family expenses" means expenses incurred that benefit and promote the family unit. (b) "Family expenses" do not include items purchased in accordance with a written contract or agreement during the marriage that do not relate to the expenses described in Subsection (1)(a). (2) (a) A married individual, and the married individual's property, is chargeable for family expenses and expenses for the education of a minor child. (b) A married individual may be sued separately or jointly with the individual's spouse for the expenses described in Subsection (2)(a). (3) For the expenses described in Subsection (2), where there is a written agreement signed by a spouse that allows for the recovery of agreed upon amounts, a creditor or an assignee or successor in interest of the creditor is entitled to recover the contractually allowed amounts against both spouses, jointly and severally. (4) Subsection (3) applies to all contracts and agreements under this section entered into by a spouse during the time the parties are married and living together. (5) The provisions of Subsections (3) and (4) do not create a right to attorney's fees or collection fees as to the nonsigning spouse for purchases of: (a) food or clothing; or (b) home improvements or repairs over $5,000.
Utah Code § 81-8-603 — Utah Code / Title 81 / Chapter 81-8 / § 81-8-603
§ 81-8-603. Effect of registration for enforcement.
Status: in_force

(1) 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. (2) 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. (3) 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 issuing tribunal had jurisdiction.
Utah Code § 81-2-302 — Utah Code / Title 81 / Chapter 81-2 / § 81-2-302
§ 81-2-302. Marriage licenses -- Use within state -- Expiration.
Status: in_force

(1) A marriage may not be solemnized in this state without a license issued by the county clerk of any county of this state. (2) (a) A license issued within this state by a county clerk may only be used within this state. (b) A license is considered used within this state if the officiant is physically present in the state at the time of solemnization of the marriage. (c) A license is not considered used within this state when the parties to the marriage are not physically present in the state in the same location as the officiant, unless: (i) the county issuing the marriage license posts on the county's website, in writing, a sufficient warning that an online marriage solemnized in this state may be invalid in the country where the parties to the marriage reside; and (ii) the officiant reiterates the warning described in Subsection (2)(c)(i) verbatim immediately before solemnizing the marriage. (3) A warning described in Subsection (2)(c)(i) is considered sufficient if the warning: (a) appears prominently on the county's website and in the same location on the website as an application for a marriage license; (b) is in bold type of the same or larger font size as the text of the instructions for applying for a marriage license; and (c) is stated in full in at least English, Spanish, Portuguese, Tagalog, French, and Mandarin Chinese on the website. (4) A marriage is considered solemnized if: (a) the parties to the marriage have a valid marriage license; (b) each party to the marriage willingly, and without duress, declares their intent to enter into the marriage; (c) each party to the marriage has filed all required affidavits with the county clerk that issued the marriage license as required under Subsection 81-2-303(5)(a); (d) an officiant pronounces the parties as married; and (e) at least two individuals 18 years old or older witness the declarations of intent and the pronouncement. (5) A license that is not used within 32 days after the day on which the license is issued is invalid.
Utah Code § 81-9-401 — Utah Code / Title 81 / Chapter 81-9 / § 81-9-401
§ 81-9-401. Definitions for part.
Status: in_force

As used in this part: (1) "District court" means the district court with proper jurisdiction over the minor child. (2) "Grandchild" means the minor child with respect to whom a grandparent is seeking visitation rights under this part. (3) "Grandparent" means an individual whose child, either by blood, marriage, or adoption, is the parent of the grandchild. (4) "Individual other than a parent" means an individual who is not a parent and is related to the minor child by marriage or blood, including: (a) siblings; (b) aunts; (c) uncles; (d) grandparents; (e) current or former step-parents; or (f) any of the individuals described in Subsections (4)(a) through (d) in a step relationship to the minor child.
Utah Code § 81-8-105 — Utah Code / Title 81 / Chapter 81-8 / § 81-8-105
§ 81-8-105. Application of chapter to residents of foreign countries and foreign support proceedings.
Status: in_force

(1) A tribunal of this state shall apply Part 1, General Provisions, Part 2, Jurisdiction, Part 3, Civil Provisions of General Application, Part 4, Establishment of Support Order or Determination of Parentage, Part 5, Enforcement of Support Order Without Registration, and Part 6, Registration, Enforcement, and Modification of Support Order and, as applicable, Part 7, Support Proceedings Under Convention, to a support proceeding involving: (a) a foreign support order; (b) a foreign tribunal; or (c) an obligee, obligor, or child residing in a foreign country. (2) A tribunal of this state that is requested to recognize and enforce a support order on the basis of comity may apply the procedural and substantive provisions of Part 1, General Provisions, Part 2, Jurisdiction, Part 3, Civil Provisions of General Application, Part 4, Establishment of Support Order or Determination of Parentage, Part 5, Enforcement of Support Order Without Registration, and Part 6, Registration, Enforcement, and Modification of Support Order. (3) (a) Part 7, Support Proceedings Under Convention, applies only to a support proceeding under the convention. (b) In a proceeding, if a provision of Part 7, Support Proceedings Under Convention is inconsistent with Part 1, General Provisions, Part 2, Jurisdiction, Part 3, Civil Provisions of General Application, Part 4, Establishment of Support Order or Determination of Parentage, Part 5, Enforcement of Support Order Without Registration, and Part 6, Registration, Enforcement, and Modification of Support Order, Part 7, Support Proceedings Under Convention, controls.
Utah Code § 81-8-611 — Utah Code / Title 81 / Chapter 81-8 / § 81-8-611
§ 81-8-611. Modification of child support order of another state.
Status: in_force

(1) If Section 81-8-613 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 that: (a) the following requirements are met: (i) neither the child, nor the obligee who is an individual, nor the obligor resides in the issuing state; (ii) a petitioner who is a nonresident of this state seeks modification; and (iii) the respondent is subject to the personal jurisdiction of the tribunal of this state; or (b) this state is the residence of the child, or a party who is an individual, is subject to the personal jurisdiction of the tribunal of this state and all of 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. (2) 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 satisfied in the same manner. (3) (a) A tribunal of this state may not modify any aspect of a child support order that may not be modified under the law of the issuing state, including the duration of the obligation of support. (b) If two or more tribunals have issued child support orders for the same obligor and same child, the order that controls and shall be so recognized under Section 81-8-207 establishes the aspects of the support order that are nonmodifiable. (4) (a) In a proceeding to modify a child support order, the law of the state that is determined to have issued the initial controlling order governs the duration of the obligation of support. (b) The obligor's fulfillment of the duty of support established by that order precludes imposition of a further obligation of support by a tribunal of this state. (5) On issuance of an order by a tribunal of this state modifying a child support order issued in another state, the tribunal of this state becomes the tribunal of continuing, exclusive jurisdiction. (6) Notwithstanding Subsections (1) through (5) and Subsection 81-8-201(2), a tribunal of this state retains jurisdiction to modify an order issued by a tribunal of this state if: (a) one party resides in another state; and (b) the other party resides outside the United States.
Utah Code § 81-8-614 — Utah Code / Title 81 / Chapter 81-8 / § 81-8-614
§ 81-8-614. Notice to issuing tribunal of modification.
Status: in_force

(1) Within 30 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. (2) 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. (3) The failure to file does not affect the validity or enforceability of the modified order of the new tribunal having continuing, exclusive jurisdiction.
Utah Code § 81-5-511 — Utah Code / Title 81 / Chapter 81-5 / § 81-5-511
§ 81-5-511. Confidentiality of genetic testing.
Status: in_force

Release of the report of genetic testing for parentage is controlled by Title 63G, Chapter 2, Government Records Access and Management Act.
Utah Code § 81-15-102 — Utah Code / Title 81 / Chapter 81-15 / § 81-15-102
§ 81-15-102. Scope.
Status: in_force

(1) This chapter governs arbitration of a family law dispute. (2) This chapter does not authorize an arbitrator to make an award that: (a) grants a legal separation, a divorce, or an annulment; (b) terminates parental rights; (c) grants an adoption or a guardianship of a minor child or incapacitated individual; or (d) determines the status of abuse, neglect, or dependency, as those terms are defined in Section 80-1-102, for a minor child.
Utah Code § 81-5-407 — Utah Code / Title 81 / Chapter 81-5 / § 81-5-407
§ 81-5-407. Removal of registration -- Rulemaking authority.
Status: in_force

The Office of Vital Records and Statistics may remove a registration in accordance with rules adopted by the Office of Vital Records and Statistics in accordance with Title 63G, Chapter 3, Utah Administrative Rulemaking Act.
Utah Code § 81-5-308 — Utah Code / Title 81 / Chapter 81-5 / § 81-5-308
§ 81-5-308. Procedure for rescission or challenge.
Status: in_force

(1) Every signatory to a declaration of paternity and any related denial of paternity must be made a party to a proceeding to rescind or challenge the declaration or denial. (2) For the purpose of rescission of, or challenge to, a declaration of paternity or denial of paternity, a signatory submits to personal jurisdiction of this state by signing the declaration or denial, effective upon the filing of the document with the Office of Vital Records and Statistics. (3) Except for good cause shown, during the pendency of a proceeding to rescind or challenge a declaration of paternity or denial of paternity, the tribunal may not suspend the legal responsibilities of a signatory arising from the declaration, including the duty to pay child support. (4) A proceeding to rescind or to challenge a declaration of paternity or denial of paternity must be conducted in the same manner as a proceeding to adjudicate parentage under Part 6, Adjudication of Parentage. (5) At the conclusion of a proceeding to rescind or challenge a declaration of paternity or denial of paternity, the tribunal shall order the Office of Vital Records and Statistics to amend the birth record of the child, if appropriate. (6) If the declaration is rescinded, the declarant father may not recover child support that was paid prior to the entry of an order of rescission.
Utah Code § 81-2-306 — Utah Code / Title 81 / Chapter 81-2 / § 81-2-306
§ 81-2-306. County clerk to file license and certificate -- Designation as vital record.
Status: in_force

(1) (a) The county clerk shall: (i) file and preserve the marriage license returned by an individual under Subsection 81-2-305(5) with the certificate of the marriage; and (ii) record the marriage license and certificate in a book kept for that purpose or by electronic means. (b) The record shall be properly indexed in the names of the parties so married. (2) An individual may use a diacritical mark, as defined in Section 26B-8-103, on a marriage license. (3) A transcript shall be promptly certified and transmitted by the clerk to the state registrar of vital statistics. (4) The marriage license and the certificate of the individual officiating at the marriage are: (a) vital records as defined in Section 26B-8-101; and (b) subject to the inspection requirements described in Section 26B-8-125.