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CA Fam Code § 5700.310 (2021)
2021 California Code|Family Code - FAM|DIVISION 9 - SUPPORT|PART 6 - Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|CHAPTER 3 - Civil Provisions of General Application|Section 5700.310.

5700.310.  (a) The Department of Child Support Services is the state information agency under this part.(b) The state information agency shall:(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 names and addresses of tribunals and support enforcement agencies received from other states;(3) forward to the appropriate tribunal in the county in this state 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 part received from another state or a foreign country; and(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 and 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.(Added by Stats. 2015, Ch. 493, Sec. 5. (SB 646) Effective January 1, 2016.)
CA Fam Code § 5700.311 (2021)
2021 California Code|Family Code - FAM|DIVISION 9 - SUPPORT|PART 6 - Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|CHAPTER 3 - Civil Provisions of General Application|Section 5700.311.

5700.311.  (a) 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 5700.312, 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.(Added by Stats. 2015, Ch. 493, Sec. 5. (SB 646) Effective January 1, 2016.)
CA Fam Code § 5700.312 (2021)
2021 California Code|Family Code - FAM|DIVISION 9 - SUPPORT|PART 6 - Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|CHAPTER 3 - Civil Provisions of General Application|Section 5700.312.

5700.312.  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.(Added by Stats. 2015, Ch. 493, Sec. 5. (SB 646) Effective January 1, 2016.)
CA Fam Code § 5700.313 (2021)
2021 California Code|Family Code - FAM|DIVISION 9 - SUPPORT|PART 6 - Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|CHAPTER 3 - Civil Provisions of General Application|Section 5700.313.

5700.313.  (a) The petitioner may not be required to pay a filing fee or other costs.(b) If an obligee prevails, a responding tribunal of this state 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. The tribunal may not assess fees, costs, or 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. Attorney’s fees may be taxed as costs, and may be ordered paid directly to the attorney, who may enforce the order in the attorney’s own name. Payment of support owed to the obligee has priority over fees, costs, and expenses.(c) The tribunal shall order the payment of costs and reasonable attorney’s fees if it determines that a hearing was requested primarily for delay. In a proceeding under Chapter 6, a hearing is presumed to have been requested primarily for delay if a registered support order is confirmed or enforced without change.(Added by Stats. 2015, Ch. 493, Sec. 5. (SB 646) Effective January 1, 2016.)
CA Fam Code § 5700.314 (2021)
2021 California Code|Family Code - FAM|DIVISION 9 - SUPPORT|PART 6 - Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|CHAPTER 3 - Civil Provisions of General Application|Section 5700.314.

5700.314.  (a) Participation by a petitioner in a proceeding under this part 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) 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) 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 physically present in this state to participate in the proceeding.(Added by Stats. 2015, Ch. 493, Sec. 5. (SB 646) Effective January 1, 2016.)
CA Fam Code § 5700.315 (2021)
2021 California Code|Family Code - FAM|DIVISION 9 - SUPPORT|PART 6 - Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|CHAPTER 3 - Civil Provisions of General Application|Section 5700.315.

5700.315.  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.(Added by Stats. 2015, Ch. 493, Sec. 5. (SB 646) Effective January 1, 2016.)
CA Fam Code § 5700.316 (2021)
2021 California Code|Family Code - FAM|DIVISION 9 - SUPPORT|PART 6 - Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|CHAPTER 3 - Civil Provisions of General Application|Section 5700.316.

5700.316.  (a) 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) 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 this state.(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 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 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) In a proceeding under this part, a tribunal of this state shall 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) 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 part.(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 part.(j) A voluntary acknowledgment of paternity, certified as a true copy, is admissible to establish parentage of the child.(Added by Stats. 2015, Ch. 493, Sec. 5. (SB 646) Effective January 1, 2016.)
CA Fam Code § 5700.317 (2021)
2021 California Code|Family Code - FAM|DIVISION 9 - SUPPORT|PART 6 - Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|CHAPTER 3 - Civil Provisions of General Application|Section 5700.317.

5700.317.  A tribunal of this state may communicate with a tribunal outside this state 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. A tribunal of this state may furnish similar information by similar means to a tribunal outside this state.(Added by Stats. 2015, Ch. 493, Sec. 5. (SB 646) Effective January 1, 2016.)
CA Fam Code § 5700.318 (2021)
2021 California Code|Family Code - FAM|DIVISION 9 - SUPPORT|PART 6 - Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|CHAPTER 3 - Civil Provisions of General Application|Section 5700.318.

5700.318.  A tribunal of this state may:(1) request a tribunal outside this state 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 this state.(Added by Stats. 2015, Ch. 493, Sec. 5. (SB 646) Effective January 1, 2016.)
CA Fam Code § 5700.319 (2021)
2021 California Code|Family Code - FAM|DIVISION 9 - SUPPORT|PART 6 - Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|CHAPTER 3 - Civil Provisions of General Application|Section 5700.319.

5700.319.  (a) 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 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 this state, upon request from the support enforcement agency of this state or another state, the Department of Child Support Services or a tribunal of this state 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 employer a conforming income-withholding order or an administrative notice of change of payee, reflecting the redirected payments.(c) The support enforcement agency of this state receiving redirected payments from another state pursuant to 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.(Added by Stats. 2015, Ch. 493, Sec. 5. (SB 646) Effective January 1, 2016.)
CA Fam Code § 5700.401 (2021)
2021 California Code|Family Code - FAM|DIVISION 9 - SUPPORT|PART 6 - Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|CHAPTER 4 - Establishment of Support Order or Determination of Parentage|Section 5700.401.

5700.401.  (a) 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:(1) the individual seeking the order resides outside this state; or(2) the support enforcement agency seeking the order is located outside this state.(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 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; 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 pursuant to Section 5700.305.(Added by Stats. 2015, Ch. 493, Sec. 5. (SB 646) Effective January 1, 2016.)
CA Fam Code § 5700.402 (2021)
2021 California Code|Family Code - FAM|DIVISION 9 - SUPPORT|PART 6 - Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|CHAPTER 4 - Establishment of Support Order or Determination of Parentage|Section 5700.402.

5700.402.   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.(Added by Stats. 2015, Ch. 493, Sec. 5. (SB 646) Effective January 1, 2016.)
CA Fam Code § 5700.501 (2021)
2021 California Code|Family Code - FAM|DIVISION 9 - SUPPORT|PART 6 - Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|CHAPTER 5 - Enforcement of Support Order Without Registration|Section 5700.501.

5700.501.  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 employer under Section 5210 without first filing a petition or comparable pleading or registering the order with a tribunal of this state.(Added by Stats. 2015, Ch. 493, Sec. 5. (SB 646) Effective January 1, 2016.)
CA Fam Code § 5700.502 (2021)
2021 California Code|Family Code - FAM|DIVISION 9 - SUPPORT|PART 6 - Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|CHAPTER 5 - Enforcement of Support Order Without Registration|Section 5700.502.

5700.502.  (a) Upon receipt of an income-withholding order, the obligor’s employer shall immediately provide a copy of the order to the obligor.(b) 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) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (d) and Section 5700.503, 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 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 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.(Added by Stats. 2015, Ch. 493, Sec. 5. (SB 646) Effective January 1, 2016.)
CA Fam Code § 5700.503 (2021)
2021 California Code|Family Code - FAM|DIVISION 9 - SUPPORT|PART 6 - Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|CHAPTER 5 - Enforcement of Support Order Without Registration|Section 5700.503.

5700.503.  If an obligor’s employer receives two or more income-withholding orders with respect to the earnings of the same obligor, the employer satisfies the terms of the 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 two or more child-support obligees.(Added by Stats. 2015, Ch. 493, Sec. 5. (SB 646) Effective January 1, 2016.)
CA Fam Code § 5700.504 (2021)
2021 California Code|Family Code - FAM|DIVISION 9 - SUPPORT|PART 6 - Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|CHAPTER 5 - Enforcement of Support Order Without Registration|Section 5700.504.

5700.504.  An employer that 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.(Added by Stats. 2015, Ch. 493, Sec. 5. (SB 646) Effective January 1, 2016.)
CA Fam Code § 5700.505 (2021)
2021 California Code|Family Code - FAM|DIVISION 9 - SUPPORT|PART 6 - Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|CHAPTER 5 - Enforcement of Support Order Without Registration|Section 5700.505.

5700.505.  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.(Added by Stats. 2015, Ch. 493, Sec. 5. (SB 646) Effective January 1, 2016.)
CA Fam Code § 5700.506 (2021)
2021 California Code|Family Code - FAM|DIVISION 9 - SUPPORT|PART 6 - Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|CHAPTER 5 - Enforcement of Support Order Without Registration|Section 5700.506.

5700.506.  (a) An obligor may contest the validity or enforcement of an income-withholding order issued in another state and received directly by an employer in this state by registering the order in a tribunal of this state and filing a contest to that order as provided in Chapter 6, or otherwise contesting the order in the same manner as if the order had been issued by a tribunal of this state.(b) The obligor shall give notice of the contest to:(1) a support enforcement agency providing services to the obligee;(2) each employer 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.(Added by Stats. 2015, Ch. 493, Sec. 5. (SB 646) Effective January 1, 2016.)
CA Fam Code § 5700.507 (2021)
2021 California Code|Family Code - FAM|DIVISION 9 - SUPPORT|PART 6 - Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|CHAPTER 5 - Enforcement of Support Order Without Registration|Section 5700.507.

5700.507.  (a) A party or support enforcement agency seeking to enforce a support order or an income-withholding order, or both, issued in another state or a foreign support order may send the documents required for registering the order to a support enforcement agency of this state.(b) Upon receipt of the documents, the support enforcement agency, without initially seeking to register the order, shall consider and, if appropriate, use any administrative procedure authorized by the law of this state 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 part.(Added by Stats. 2015, Ch. 493, Sec. 5. (SB 646) Effective January 1, 2016.)
CA Fam Code § 5700.701 (2021)
2021 California Code|Family Code - FAM|DIVISION 9 - SUPPORT|PART 6 - Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|CHAPTER 7 - Support Proceeding Under Convention|Section 5700.701.

5700.701.  In this chapter:(1) “Application” means a request under the Convention by an obligee or obligor, or on behalf of a child, made through a central authority for assistance from another central authority.(2) “Central authority” means the entity designated by the United States or a foreign country described in Section 5700.102(5)(D) to perform the functions specified in the Convention.(3) “Convention support order” means a support order of a tribunal of a foreign country described in Section 5700.102(5)(D).(4) “Direct request” means a petition filed by an individual in a tribunal of this state in a proceeding involving an obligee, obligor, or child residing outside the United States.(5) “Foreign central authority” means the entity designated by a foreign country described in Section 5700.102(5)(D) to perform the functions specified in the Convention.(6) “Foreign support agreement”:(A) means an agreement for support in a record that:(i) is enforceable as a support order in the country of origin;(ii) has been:(I) formally drawn up or registered as an authentic instrument by a foreign tribunal; or(II) authenticated by, or concluded, registered, or filed with a foreign tribunal; and(iii) may be reviewed and modified by a foreign tribunal; and(B) includes a maintenance arrangement or authentic instrument under the Convention.(7) “United States central authority” means the Secretary of the United States Department of Health and Human Services.(Added by Stats. 2015, Ch. 493, Sec. 5. (SB 646) Effective January 1, 2016.)
CA Fam Code § 5700.702 (2021)
2021 California Code|Family Code - FAM|DIVISION 9 - SUPPORT|PART 6 - Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|CHAPTER 7 - Support Proceeding Under Convention|Section 5700.702.

5700.702.  This chapter applies only to a support proceeding under the Convention. In such a proceeding, if a provision of this chapter is inconsistent with Chapters 1 through 6, this chapter controls. (Added by Stats. 2015, Ch. 493, Sec. 5. (SB 646) Effective January 1, 2016.)
CA Fam Code § 5700.703 (2021)
2021 California Code|Family Code - FAM|DIVISION 9 - SUPPORT|PART 6 - Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|CHAPTER 7 - Support Proceeding Under Convention|Section 5700.703.

5700.703.  The Department of Child Support Services is recognized as the agency designated by the United States central authority to perform specific functions under the Convention.(Added by Stats. 2015, Ch. 493, Sec. 5. (SB 646) Effective January 1, 2016.)