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IN Code § 31-18.5-3-10 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 31. Family Law and Juvenile Law|Article 18.5. Family Law: Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|Chapter 3. Civil Provisions of General Application|31-18.5-3-10. Duties of the Child Support Bureau

Sec. 10. (a) The child support bureau is the state information agency under this article.(b) The state information agency shall:(1) compile and maintain a current list, including addresses, of the Indiana tribunals that have jurisdiction under this article 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 names and addresses of tribunals and support enforcement agencies received from other states;(3) forward to the appropriate tribunal in the county in Indiana in which the obligee who is an individual or the obligor resides, or in which the obligor's property is believed to be located, all documents concerning a proceeding under this article received from another state or a foreign country; and(4) obtain information concerning the location of the obligor and the obligor's property within Indiana not exempt from execution, by such means as:(A) postal verification and federal or state locator services;(B) examination of telephone directories;(C) requests for the obligor's address from income payors; and(D) examination of governmental records, including, to the extent not prohibited by other law, those relating to:(i) real property;(ii) vital statistics;(iii) law enforcement;(iv) taxation;(v) motor vehicles;(vi) driver's licenses; and(vii) Social Security.As added by P.L.206-2015, SEC.53.
IN Code § 31-18.5-3-11 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 31. Family Law and Juvenile Law|Article 18.5. Family Law: Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|Chapter 3. Civil Provisions of General Application|31-18.5-3-11. Pleadings and Accompanying Documents

Sec. 11. (a) In a proceeding under this article, 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 12 of this chapter, the petition or accompanying documents must provide, so far as known, the name, residential address, and Social Security numbers 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) 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.As added by P.L.206-2015, SEC.53.
IN Code § 31-18.5-3-12 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 31. Family Law and Juvenile Law|Article 18.5. Family Law: Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|Chapter 3. Civil Provisions of General Application|31-18.5-3-12. Nondisclosure of Information in Exceptional Circumstances

Sec. 12. 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 specific identifying information, that information must be sealed and may not be disclosed to the other party or the public. After a hearing in which a 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.As added by P.L.206-2015, SEC.53.
IN Code § 31-18.5-3-13 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 31. Family Law and Juvenile Law|Article 18.5. Family Law: Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|Chapter 3. Civil Provisions of General Application|31-18.5-3-13. Costs, Fees, and Expenses

Sec. 13. (a) The petitioner may not be required to pay a filing fee or other costs.(b) If an obligee prevails, a responding Indiana tribunal may assess against an obligor filing fees, reasonable attorney's fees, other costs, and necessary travel and other reasonable expenses incurred by the obligee and the obligee's witnesses.(c) The tribunal may not assess:(1) fees;(2) costs; or(3) expenses;against the obligee or the support enforcement agency of either the initiating or responding state or foreign country, except as provided by other law.(d) 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.(e) The tribunal shall order the payment of costs and reasonable attorney's fees if it determines that a hearing was requested primarily for delay. In a proceeding under IC 31-18.5-6, a hearing is presumed to have been requested primarily for delay if a registered support order is confirmed or enforced without change.As added by P.L.206-2015, SEC.53.
IN Code § 31-18.5-3-14 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 31. Family Law and Juvenile Law|Article 18.5. Family Law: Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|Chapter 3. Civil Provisions of General Application|31-18.5-3-14. Limited Immunity of Petitioner

Sec. 14. (a) Participation by a petitioner in a proceeding under this article before a responding tribunal, whether:(1) in person;(2) by private attorney; or(3) through services provided by the support enforcement agency;does not confer personal jurisdiction over the petitioner in another proceeding.(b) A petitioner is not amenable to service of civil process while physically present in Indiana to participate in a proceeding under this article.(c) The immunity granted by this section does not extend to civil litigation based on acts unrelated to a proceeding under this article committed by a party while physically present in Indiana to participate in the proceeding.As added by P.L.206-2015, SEC.53.
IN Code § 31-18.5-3-15 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 31. Family Law and Juvenile Law|Article 18.5. Family Law: Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|Chapter 3. Civil Provisions of General Application|31-18.5-3-15. Nonparentage as Defense

Sec. 15. A party whose parentage of a child has been previously determined by or under law may not plead nonparentage as a defense to a proceeding under this article.As added by P.L.206-2015, SEC.53.
IN Code § 31-18.5-3-16 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 31. Family Law and Juvenile Law|Article 18.5. Family Law: Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|Chapter 3. Civil Provisions of General Application|31-18.5-3-16. Special Rules of Evidence and Procedure

Sec. 16. (a) The physical presence of a nonresident party who is an individual in an Indiana tribunal 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) An affidavit, a document substantially complying with federally mandated forms, or a document incorporated by reference in any of them, which would not be excluded under the hearsay rule if given in person, is admissible in evidence if given under penalty of perjury by a party or witness residing outside Indiana.(c) 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) 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 (10) 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) Documentary evidence transmitted from outside Indiana to an Indiana tribunal 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) In a proceeding under this article, an Indiana tribunal shall permit a party or witness residing outside Indiana to be deposed or to testify under penalty of perjury by telephone, audiovisual means, or other electronic means at:(1) a designated tribunal; or(2) another location.An Indiana tribunal shall cooperate with other tribunals in designating an appropriate location for the deposition or testimony.(g) 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) A privilege against disclosure of communications between spouses does not apply in a proceeding under this article.(i) The defense of immunity based on the relationship of husband and wife or parent and child does not apply in a proceeding under this article.(j) A voluntary acknowledgment of parentage, certified as a true copy, is admissible to establish parentage of the child.As added by P.L.206-2015, SEC.53.
IN Code § 31-18.5-3-17 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 31. Family Law and Juvenile Law|Article 18.5. Family Law: Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|Chapter 3. Civil Provisions of General Application|31-18.5-3-17. Communication Between Tribunals

Sec. 17. (a) An Indiana tribunal may communicate with a tribunal outside Indiana in a record or by telephone, electronic 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.(b) An Indiana tribunal may furnish similar information by similar means to a tribunal outside Indiana.As added by P.L.206-2015, SEC.53.
IN Code § 31-18.5-3-18 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 31. Family Law and Juvenile Law|Article 18.5. Family Law: Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|Chapter 3. Civil Provisions of General Application|31-18.5-3-18. Discovery

Sec. 18. An Indiana tribunal may:(1) request a tribunal outside Indiana to assist in obtaining discovery; and(2) upon request, compel a person over which it has jurisdiction to respond to a discovery order issued by a tribunal outside Indiana.As added by P.L.206-2015, SEC.53.
IN Code § 31-18.5-3-19 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 31. Family Law and Juvenile Law|Article 18.5. Family Law: Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|Chapter 3. Civil Provisions of General Application|31-18.5-3-19. Receipt and Disbursement of Payments

Sec. 19. (a) A support enforcement agency or Indiana tribunal shall disburse promptly any amounts received under a support order, as directed by the order. 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.(b) If neither the obligor, nor the obligee who is an individual, nor the child resides in Indiana, upon request from the support enforcement agency of Indiana or another state, the support enforcement agency of this state or an Indiana tribunal shall:(1) direct that the support payment be made to the support enforcement agency in the state in which the obligee is receiving services; and(2) issue and send to the obligor's income payor a conforming income withholding order or an administrative notice of change of payee, reflecting the redirected payments.(c) The support enforcement agency of Indiana 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.As added by P.L.206-2015, SEC.53.
IN Code § 31-18.5-4-1 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 31. Family Law and Juvenile Law|Article 18.5. Family Law: Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|Chapter 4. Establishment of Support Order or Determination of Parentage|31-18.5-4-1. Issuance of Support Order and Temporary Child Support Order

Sec. 1. (a) If a support order entitled to recognition under this article has not been issued, a responding Indiana tribunal with personal jurisdiction over the parties may issue a support order if:(1) the individual seeking the order resides outside Indiana; or(2) the support enforcement agency seeking the order is located outside Indiana.(b) The tribunal may issue a temporary child support order if the tribunal determines that such an order is appropriate and the individual ordered to pay is:(1) a presumed father of the child;(2) petitioning to have the individual's parentage 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 IC 16-37-2-2.1;(7) the mother of the child; or(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) 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 under IC 31-18.5-3-5.As added by P.L.206-2015, SEC.53.
IN Code § 31-18.5-4-2 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 31. Family Law and Juvenile Law|Article 18.5. Family Law: Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|Chapter 4. Establishment of Support Order or Determination of Parentage|31-18.5-4-2. Proceeding to Determine Parentage

Sec. 2. An Indiana tribunal 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 article or a law or procedure substantially similar to this article.As added by P.L.206-2015, SEC.53.
IN Code § 31-18.5-5-1 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 31. Family Law and Juvenile Law|Article 18.5. Family Law: Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|Chapter 5. Enforcement of Support Order Without Registration|31-18.5-5-1. Income Withholding Order of Another State

Sec. 1. 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 defined as the obligor's income payor under IC 31-9-2-57 without first filing a petition or comparable pleading or registering the order with an Indiana tribunal.As added by P.L.206-2015, SEC.53.
IN Code § 31-18.5-5-2 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 31. Family Law and Juvenile Law|Article 18.5. Family Law: Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|Chapter 5. Enforcement of Support Order Without Registration|31-18.5-5-2. Employer's Compliance With Income Withholding Order of Another State

Sec. 2. (a) Upon receipt of an income withholding order, the obligor's income payor shall immediately provide a copy of the order to the obligor.(b) The income payor shall treat an income withholding order issued in another state which appears regular on its face as if it had been issued by an Indiana tribunal.(c) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (d) and section 3 of this chapter, the income payor 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 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 payment, stated as a sum certain, or ordering 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) An income payor 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 income payor'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 income payor must implement the withholding order and forward the child support payment.As added by P.L.206-2015, SEC.53.
IN Code § 31-18.5-5-3 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 31. Family Law and Juvenile Law|Article 18.5. Family Law: Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|Chapter 5. Enforcement of Support Order Without Registration|31-18.5-5-3. Employer's Compliance With Two or More Income Withholding Orders

Sec. 3. If an obligor's income payor receives two (2) or more income withholding orders with respect to the earnings of the same obligor, the income payor satisfies the terms of the orders if the income 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 (2) or more child support obligees.As added by P.L.206-2015, SEC.53.
IN Code § 31-18.5-5-4 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 31. Family Law and Juvenile Law|Article 18.5. Family Law: Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|Chapter 5. Enforcement of Support Order Without Registration|31-18.5-5-4. Immunity From Civil Liability

Sec. 4. An income payor that complies with an income withholding order issued in another state in accordance with this section is not subject to civil liability to an individual or agency with regard to the income payor's withholding of child support from the obligor's income.As added by P.L.206-2015, SEC.53.
IN Code § 31-18.5-5-5 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 31. Family Law and Juvenile Law|Article 18.5. Family Law: Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|Chapter 5. Enforcement of Support Order Without Registration|31-18.5-5-5. Penalties for Noncompliance

Sec. 5. An income 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 an Indiana tribunal.As added by P.L.206-2015, SEC.53.
IN Code § 31-18.5-5-6 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 31. Family Law and Juvenile Law|Article 18.5. Family Law: Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|Chapter 5. Enforcement of Support Order Without Registration|31-18.5-5-6. Contest by Obligor; Notice

Sec. 6. (a) An obligor may contest the validity or enforcement of an income withholding order issued in another state and received directly by an income payor in Indiana by registering the order in an Indiana tribunal and filing a contest to that order as provided in IC 31-18.5-6, or otherwise contesting the order in the same manner as if the order had been issued by an Indiana tribunal.(b) The obligor shall give notice of the contest to:(1) a support enforcement agency providing services to the obligee;(2) each income payor that has directly received an income withholding order relating to the obligor; and(3) the person designated to receive payments in the income withholding order or, if no person is designated, to the obligee.As added by P.L.206-2015, SEC.53.
IN Code § 31-18.5-5-7 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 31. Family Law and Juvenile Law|Article 18.5. Family Law: Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|Chapter 5. Enforcement of Support Order Without Registration|31-18.5-5-7. Administrative Enforcement of Orders

Sec. 7. (a) A party or support enforcement agent 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 Indiana.(b) Upon receipt of the documents, the support enforcement agency, without initially seeking to register the order, shall consider and, if appropriate, use any administrative procedure authorized by Indiana law to enforce a support order or an income withholding order, or both. If the obligor does not contest administrative enforcement, the order need not be registered. If the obligor contests the validity or administrative enforcement of the order, the support enforcement agency shall register the order pursuant to this article.As added by P.L.206-2015, SEC.53.
IN Code § 31-18.5-6-1 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 31. Family Law and Juvenile Law|Article 18.5. Family Law: Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|Chapter 6. Registration, Enforcement, and Modification of Support Order|31-18.5-6-1. Registration of Order for Enforcement

Sec. 1. A support order or income withholding order issued in another state or a foreign support order may be registered in Indiana for enforcement.As added by P.L.206-2015, SEC.53.
IN Code § 31-18.5-6-2 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 31. Family Law and Juvenile Law|Article 18.5. Family Law: Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|Chapter 6. Registration, Enforcement, and Modification of Support Order|31-18.5-6-2. Procedure to Register Order for Enforcement

Sec. 2. (a) Except as otherwise provided in IC 31-18.5-7-6, a support order or income withholding order of another state or a foreign support order may be registered in Indiana by sending the following records to the appropriate tribunal in Indiana:(1) a letter of transmittal to the tribunal requesting registration and enforcement;(2) two (2) copies, including one (1) 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 obligor and, if known:(A) the obligor's address and Social Security number;(B) the name and address of the obligor's income payor and any other source of income of the obligor; and(C) a description and the location of property of the obligor in this state not exempt from execution; and(5) except as otherwise provided in IC 31-18.5-3-12, the name and address of the obligee and, if applicable, the person to whom support payments are to be remitted.(b) On receipt of a request for registration, the registering tribunal shall cause the order to be filed as an order of a tribunal of another state or a foreign support order, together with one (1) copy of the documents and information, regardless of their form.(c) A petition or comparable pleading seeking a remedy that must be affirmatively sought under other Indiana law may be filed at the same time as the request for registration or later. The pleading must specify the grounds for the remedy sought.(d) If two (2) or more orders are in effect, the person requesting registration shall:(1) furnish to the tribunal a copy of every support order asserted to be in effect in addition to the documents specified in this section;(2) specify the order alleged to be the controlling order, if any; and(3) specify the amount of consolidated arrears, if any.(e) A request for a determination of which is the controlling order may be filed separately or with a request for registration and enforcement or for registration and modification. The person requesting registration shall give notice of the request to each party whose rights may be affected by the determination.As added by P.L.206-2015, SEC.53.