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23 PA Cons Stat § 7308 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 23 - DOMESTIC RELATIONS|Chapter 73 - Civil Provisions of General Application|Section 7308 - Supervisory duty

§ 7308. Supervisory duty. (a) Secretary.--If the secretary determines that a support enforcement agency is neglecting or refusing to provide services to an individual, the secretary may order the agency to perform its duties under this part or may provide those services directly to the individual.  (b) Reciprocity.--The secretary may determine that a foreign country has established a reciprocal arrangement for child support with this State and take appropriate action for notification of the determination.  (Dec. 16, 1997, P.L.549, No.58, eff. Jan. 1, 1998; Dec. 28, 2015, P.L.559, No.94, eff. imd.)    1997 Amendment. Act 58 of 1997 was suspended by Pennsylvania Rule of Civil Procedure No. 1910.50(3), as amended May 31, 2000, insofar as it is inconsistent with Rule No. 1910.20 relating to the availability of remedies for collection of past due and overdue support.  Cross References. Section 7308 is referred to in section 7101.1 of this title.
23 PA Cons Stat § 7309 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 23 - DOMESTIC RELATIONS|Chapter 73 - Civil Provisions of General Application|Section 7309 - Private counsel

§ 7309. Private counsel. An individual may employ private counsel to represent the individual in proceedings authorized by this part.
23 PA Cons Stat § 7310 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 23 - DOMESTIC RELATIONS|Chapter 73 - Civil Provisions of General Application|Section 7310 - Duties of department

§ 7310. Duties of department. (a) Designation.--The department is the State information agency under this part.  (b) Duties.--The department shall do all of the following:  (1) Compile and maintain a current list, including addresses, of the tribunals in this State which have jurisdiction under this part and any support enforcement agencies in this State and transmit a copy to the state information agency of every other state.  (2) Maintain a register of tribunals and support enforcement agencies received from other states.  (3) Forward to the appropriate tribunal in the place in this State in which the individual obligee or the obligor resides, or in which the obligor's property is believed to be located, documents concerning a proceeding under this part received from another state or a foreign country.  (4) Obtain information concerning the location of the obligor and the obligor's property within this State not exempt from execution by such means as postal verification; Federal or State locator services; examination of telephone directories; requests for the obligor's address from employers; and examination of governmental records, including, to the extent not prohibited by other law, those relating to real property, vital statistics, law enforcement, taxation, motor vehicles, driver's licenses and Social Security.  (5) (Deleted by amendment). (6) (Deleted by amendment). (Dec. 16, 1997, P.L.549, No.58, eff. Jan. 1, 1998; Dec. 28, 2015, P.L.559, No.94, eff. imd.)    1997 Amendment. Act 58 of 1997 was suspended by Pennsylvania Rule of Civil Procedure No. 1910.50(3), as amended May 31, 2000, insofar as it is inconsistent with Rule No. 1910.20 relating to the availability of remedies for collection of past due and overdue support.
23 PA Cons Stat § 7311 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 23 - DOMESTIC RELATIONS|Chapter 73 - Civil Provisions of General Application|Section 7311 - Pleadings and accompanying documents

§ 7311. Pleadings and accompanying documents. (a) Verification and content.--In a proceeding under this part, a petitioner seeking to establish a support order to determine parentage of a child or to register and modify a support order of a tribunal of another state or a foreign country must file a petition. Unless otherwise ordered under section 7312 (relating to nondisclosure of information in exceptional circumstances), the petition or accompanying documents must provide, so far as known, the name, residential address and Social Security number of the obligor and the obligee or the parent and alleged parent and the name, sex, residential address, Social Security number and date of birth of each child for whose benefit support is sought or whose parentage is to be determined. Unless filed at the time of registration, the petition must be accompanied by a copy of any support order known to have been issued by another tribunal. The petition may include any other information that may assist in locating or identifying the respondent.  (b) Relief.--The petition must specify the relief sought. The petition and accompanying documents must conform substantially with the requirements imposed by the forms mandated by Federal law for use in cases filed by a support enforcement agency.  (Dec. 28, 2015, P.L.559, No.94, eff. imd.)   Cross References. Section 7311 is referred to in section 77A06 of this title.
23 PA Cons Stat § 7312 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 23 - DOMESTIC RELATIONS|Chapter 73 - Civil Provisions of General Application|Section 7312 - Nondisclosure of information in exceptional circumstances

§ 7312. Nondisclosure of information in exceptional circumstances. If a party alleges in an affidavit or a pleading under oath that the health, safety or liberty of a party or child would be jeopardized by disclosure of the specific identifying information, the specific identifying information must be sealed and may not be disclosed to the other party or the public. After a hearing in which the tribunal takes into consideration the health, safety or liberty of the party or child, the tribunal may order disclosure of information that the tribunal determines to be in the interest of justice.  (Dec. 28, 2015, P.L.559, No.94, eff. imd.)   Cross References. Section 7312 is referred to in sections 7311, 7602 of this title.
23 PA Cons Stat § 7313 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 23 - DOMESTIC RELATIONS|Chapter 73 - Civil Provisions of General Application|Section 7313 - Costs and fees

§ 7313. Costs and fees. (a) Petitioner.--The petitioner may not be required to pay a filing fee or other costs.  (b) Obligor.--If an obligee prevails, a responding tribunal of this State may assess against an obligor filing fees, reasonable attorney fees, other costs and necessary travel and other reasonable expenses incurred by the obligee and the obligee's witnesses. The tribunal may not assess fees, costs or expenses against the obligee or the support enforcement agency of either the initiating state or the responding state or foreign country except as provided by other law. Attorney 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) Dilatory actions.--The tribunal shall order the payment of costs and reasonable attorney fees if it determines that a hearing was requested primarily for delay. In a proceeding under Chapter 76 (relating to registration, enforcement and modification of support order), a hearing is presumed to have been requested primarily for delay if a registered support order is confirmed or enforced without change.  (Dec. 28, 2015, P.L.559, No.94, eff. imd.)
23 PA Cons Stat § 7314 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 23 - DOMESTIC RELATIONS|Chapter 73 - Civil Provisions of General Application|Section 7314 - Limited immunity of petitioner

§ 7314. Limited immunity of petitioner. (a) Jurisdiction over person.--Participation by a petitioner in a proceeding before a responding tribunal, whether in person, by private attorney or through services provided by the support enforcement agency, does not confer personal jurisdiction over the petitioner in another proceeding.  (b) Service.--A petitioner is not amenable to service of civil process while physically present in this State to participate in a proceeding under this part.  (c) Exception.--The immunity granted by this section does not extend to civil litigation based on acts unrelated to a proceeding under this part committed by a party while present in this State to participate in the proceeding.
23 PA Cons Stat § 7315 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 23 - DOMESTIC RELATIONS|Chapter 73 - Civil Provisions of General Application|Section 7315 - Nonparentage as defense

§ 7315. Nonparentage as defense. A party whose parentage of a child has been previously determined by or pursuant to law may not plead nonparentage as a defense to a proceeding under this part.
23 PA Cons Stat § 7316 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 23 - DOMESTIC RELATIONS|Chapter 73 - Civil Provisions of General Application|Section 7316 - Special rules of evidence and procedure

§ 7316. Special rules of evidence and procedure. (a) Physical presence.--The physical presence of a nonresident party who is an individual in a tribunal of this State is not required for the establishment, enforcement or modification of a support order or the rendition of a judgment determining parentage of a child.  (b) Hearsay exception.--A petition, affidavit or document, substantially complying with federally mandated forms, and a document incorporated by reference in any of them, not excluded under the hearsay rule if given in person, are admissible in evidence if given under penalty of perjury by a party or witness residing outside this State.  (c) Payment record.--A copy of the record of child support payments certified as a true copy of the original by the custodian of the record may be forwarded to a responding tribunal. The copy is evidence of facts asserted in it and is admissible to show whether payments were made.  (d) Bills.--Copies of bills for testing for parentage of a child and for prenatal and postnatal health care of the mother and child, furnished to the adverse party at least ten days before trial, are admissible in evidence to prove the amount of the charges billed and that the charges were reasonable, necessary and customary.  (e) Transmission of documentary evidence.--Documentary evidence transmitted from outside this State to a tribunal of this State by telephone, telecopier or other electronic means that do not provide an original record may not be excluded from evidence on an objection based on the means of transmission.  (f) Testimony.--In a proceeding under this part, a tribunal of this State may permit a party or witness residing outside this State to be deposed or to testify under penalty of perjury by telephone, audiovisual means or other electronic means at a designated tribunal or other location. A tribunal of this State shall cooperate with other tribunals in designating an appropriate location for the deposition or testimony.  (g) Self-incrimination.--If a party called to testify at a civil hearing refuses to answer on the ground that the testimony may be self-incriminating, the trier of fact may draw an adverse inference from the refusal.  (h) Spousal communications.--A privilege against disclosure of communications between spouses does not apply in a proceeding under this part.  (i) Family immunity.--The defense of immunity based on the relationship of husband and wife or parent and child does not apply in a proceeding under this part.  (j) Parentage.--A voluntary acknowledgment of paternity, certified as a true copy, is admissible to establish parentage of the child.  (Dec. 28, 2015, P.L.559, No.94, eff. imd.)   Cross References. Section 7316 is referred to in section 7210 of this title.
23 PA Cons Stat § 7317 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 23 - DOMESTIC RELATIONS|Chapter 73 - Civil Provisions of General Application|Section 7317 - Communications between tribunals

§ 7317. Communications between tribunals. A tribunal of this State may communicate with a tribunal outside this State in a record or by telephone, e-mail or other means to obtain information concerning the laws; the legal effect of a judgment, decree or order of that tribunal; and the status of a proceeding. A tribunal of this State may furnish similar information by similar means to a tribunal outside this State.  (Dec. 28, 2015, P.L.559, No.94, eff. imd.)   Cross References. Section 7317 is referred to in section 7210 of this title.
23 PA Cons Stat § 7318 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 23 - DOMESTIC RELATIONS|Chapter 73 - Civil Provisions of General Application|Section 7318 - Assistance with discovery

§ 7318. Assistance with discovery. A tribunal of this State may do all of the following: (1) Request a tribunal outside this State to assist in obtaining discovery. (2) Upon request, compel a person subject to its jurisdiction to respond to a discovery order issued by a tribunal outside this State.  (Dec. 28, 2015, P.L.559, No.94, eff. imd.)   Cross References. Section 7318 is referred to in section 7210 of this title.
23 PA Cons Stat § 7319 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 23 - DOMESTIC RELATIONS|Chapter 73 - Civil Provisions of General Application|Section 7319 - Receipt and disbursement of payments

§ 7319. Receipt and disbursement of payments. (a) Payments.--A support enforcement agency or tribunal of this State shall disburse promptly any amounts received pursuant to a support order, as directed by the order. The agency or tribunal shall furnish to a requesting party or tribunal outside this State or of a foreign country a certified statement by the custodian of the record of the amounts and dates of all payments received.  (b) Residency.--If the obligor, the obligee who is an individual and the child do not reside in this State, upon request from the support enforcement agency of this State or another state, the support enforcement agency of this State or a tribunal of this State shall do all of the following:  (1) Direct that the support payment be made to the support enforcement agency in the state in which the obligee is receiving services.  (2) 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.  (c) Certificated records.--The support enforcement agency of this State receiving redirected payments from another state under a law similar to subsection (b) 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.  (Dec. 28, 2015, P.L.559, No.94, eff. imd.)   Cross References. Section 7319 is referred to in section 7307 of this title.
23 PA Cons Stat § 7401 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 23 - DOMESTIC RELATIONS|Chapter 74 - Establishment of Support Order or Determination of Parentage|Section 7401 - Establishment of support order

§ 7401. Establishment of support order. (a) Jurisdiction.--If a support order entitled to recognition under this part has not been issued, a responding tribunal of this State with personal jurisdiction over the parties may issue a support order if any of the following apply:  (1) The individual seeking the order resides outside this State. (2) The support enforcement agency seeking the order is located outside this State. (b) Temporary orders.--The tribunal may issue a temporary child support order if the tribunal determines that an order is appropriate and the individual ordered to pay is any of the following:  (1) A presumed father of the child. (2) Petitioning to have his paternity adjudicated. (3) Identified as the father of the child through genetic testing. (4) An alleged father who has declined to submit to genetic testing. (5) Shown by clear and convincing evidence to be the father of the child. (6) An acknowledged father as provided by applicable state law. (7) The mother of the child. (8) An individual who has been ordered to pay child support in a previous proceeding and the order has not been reversed or vacated.  (c) Relief.--Upon finding, after notice and opportunity to be heard, that an obligor owes a duty of support, the tribunal shall issue a support order directed to the obligor and may issue other orders pursuant to section 7305 (relating to duties and powers of responding tribunal).  (Dec. 28, 2015, P.L.559, No.94, eff. imd.)
23 PA Cons Stat § 7402 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 23 - DOMESTIC RELATIONS|Chapter 74 - Establishment of Support Order or Determination of Parentage|Section 7402 - Proceeding to determine parentage

§ 7402. Proceeding to determine parentage. A tribunal of 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 part or a law or procedure substantially similar to this part.  (Dec. 28, 2015, P.L.559, No.94, eff. imd.)   2015 Amendment. Act 94 added section 7402.
23 PA Cons Stat § 7501 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 23 - DOMESTIC RELATIONS|Chapter 75 - Enforcement of Support Order Without Registration|Section 7501 - Employer's receipt of income-withholding order of another state

§ 7501. Employer's receipt of income-withholding order of another state. An income-withholding order issued in another state may be sent by or on behalf of the obligee, or by the support enforcement agency, to the person or entity defined as the obligor's employer under section 4302 (relating to definitions) without first filing a petition or comparable pleading or registering the order with a tribunal of this State.  (Dec. 16, 1997, P.L.549, No.58, eff. Jan. 1, 1998; Dec. 28, 2015, P.L.559, No.94, eff. imd.)    1997 Amendment. Act 58 of 1997 was suspended by Pennsylvania Rule of Civil Procedure No. 1910.50(3), as amended May 31, 2000, insofar as it is inconsistent with Rule No. 1910.20 relating to the availability of remedies for collection of past due and overdue support.
23 PA Cons Stat § 7501.1 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 23 - DOMESTIC RELATIONS|Chapter 75 - Enforcement of Support Order Without Registration|Section 7501.1 - Employer's compliance with income-withholding order of another state

§ 7501.1. Employer's compliance with income-withholding order of another state. (a) Copy of order.--Upon receipt of an income-withholding order, the obligor's employer shall immediately provide a copy of the order to the obligor.  (b) Treatment of order.--The employer shall treat an income-withholding order issued in another state which appears regular on its face as if it had been issued by a tribunal of this State.  (c) Withholding and distribution of funds.--Except as otherwise provided in subsection (d) and section 7501.2 (relating to compliance with multiple income-withholding orders), the employer shall withhold and distribute the funds as directed in the withholding order by complying with terms of the order which specify:  (1) the duration and amount of periodic payments of current child support, stated as a sum certain;  (2) the person or agency designated to receive payments and the address to which the payments are to be forwarded;  (3) medical support, whether in the form of periodic cash payments of a sum certain or order to the obligor to provide health insurance coverage 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; and  (5) the amount of periodic payments of arrearages and interest on arrearages, stated as sums certain.  (d) Compliance with law of obligor's place of employment.--An employer shall comply with the law of the state of the obligor's principal place of employment for withholding from income with respect to:  (1) the employer's fee for processing an income-withholding order; (2) the maximum amount permitted to be withheld from the obligor's income; and (3) the times within which the employer must implement the withholding order and forward the child support payment.  (Dec. 16, 1997, P.L.549, No.58, eff. Jan. 1, 1998)   1997 Amendment. Act 58 added section 7501.1. Act 58 of 1997 was suspended by Pennsylvania Rule of Civil Procedure No. 1910.50(3), as amended May 31, 2000, insofar as it is inconsistent with Rule No. 1910.20 relating to the availability of remedies for collection of past due and overdue support.
23 PA Cons Stat § 7501.2 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 23 - DOMESTIC RELATIONS|Chapter 75 - Enforcement of Support Order Without Registration|Section 7501.2 - Compliance with multiple income-withholding orders

§ 7501.2. Compliance with multiple income-withholding orders. If an obligor's employer receives multiple income-withholding orders with respect to the earnings of the same obligor, the employer satisfies the terms of the multiple orders if the employer 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 multiple child-support obligees.  (Dec. 16, 1997, P.L.549, No.58, eff. Jan. 1, 1998)   1997 Amendment. Act 58 added section 7501.2. Act 58 of 1997 was suspended by Pennsylvania Rule of Civil Procedure No. 1910.50(3), as amended May 31, 2000, insofar as it is inconsistent with Rule No. 1910.20 relating to the availability of remedies for collection of past due and overdue support.  Cross References. Section 7501.2 is referred to in section 7501.1 of this title.
23 PA Cons Stat § 7501.3 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 23 - DOMESTIC RELATIONS|Chapter 75 - Enforcement of Support Order Without Registration|Section 7501.3 - Immunity from civil liability

§ 7501.3. Immunity from civil liability. An employer who complies with an income-withholding order issued in another state in accordance with this chapter is not subject to civil liability to an individual or agency with regard to the employer's withholding of child support from the obligor's income.  (Dec. 16, 1997, P.L.549, No.58, eff. Jan. 1, 1998)   1997 Amendment. Act 58 added section 7501.3. Act 58 of 1997 was suspended by Pennsylvania Rule of Civil Procedure No. 1910.50(3), as amended May 31, 2000, insofar as it is inconsistent with Rule No. 1910.20 relating to the availability of remedies for collection of past due and overdue support.
23 PA Cons Stat § 7501.4 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 23 - DOMESTIC RELATIONS|Chapter 75 - Enforcement of Support Order Without Registration|Section 7501.4 - Penalties for noncompliance

§ 7501.4. Penalties for noncompliance. An employer 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.  (Dec. 16, 1997, P.L.549, No.58, eff. Jan. 1, 1998; Dec. 28, 2015, P.L.559, No.94, eff. imd.)    1997 Amendment. Act 58 of 1997 was suspended by Pennsylvania Rule of Civil Procedure No. 1910.50(3), as amended May 31, 2000, insofar as it is inconsistent with Rule No. 1910.20 relating to the availability of remedies for collection of past due and overdue support.