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DC Code § 46-352.05 (2021)
2021 District of Columbia Code|Title 46 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 3A - Uniform Interstate Family Support|Subchapter II - Jurisdiction|§ 46-352.05. Continuing, exclusive jurisdiction to modify child-support order

(a) A tribunal of the District that has issued a child-support order consistent with the law of the District, has and shall exercise continuing, exclusive jurisdiction to modify its child-support order if the order is the controlling order and: (1) At the time of the filing of a request for modification the District is the residence of the obligor, the individual obligee, or the child for whose benefit the support order is issued; or (2) Even if the District is not the residence of the obligor, the individual obligee, or the child for whose benefit the support order is issued, the parties consent in a record or in open court that the tribunal of the District may continue to exercise jurisdiction to modify its order. (b) A tribunal of the District that has issued a child-support order consistent with the law of the District, may not exercise continuing, exclusive jurisdiction to modify the order if: (1) All of the parties who are individuals file consent in a record with the tribunal of the District that a tribunal of another state that has jurisdiction over at least one of the parties who is an individual or that is located in the state of residence of the child may modify the order and assume continuing, exclusive jurisdiction; or (2) Its order is not the controlling order. (c) If a tribunal of another state has issued a child-support order pursuant to the Uniform Interstate Family Support Act or a law substantially similar to that Act which modifies a child-support order of a tribunal of the District, a tribunal of the District shall recognize the continuing, exclusive jurisdiction of the tribunal of the other state. (d) A tribunal of the District that lacks continuing, exclusive jurisdiction to modify a child-support order, may serve as an initiating tribunal to request a tribunal of another state to modify a support order issued in that state. (e) A temporary support order issued ex parte or pending resolution of a jurisdictional conflict does not create continuing, exclusive jurisdiction in the issuing tribunal.  (Feb. 27, 2016, D.C. Law 21-73, § 205, 63 DCR 222.)
DC Code § 46-352.06 (2021)
2021 District of Columbia Code|Title 46 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 3A - Uniform Interstate Family Support|Subchapter II - Jurisdiction|§ 46-352.06. Continuing jurisdiction to enforce child-support order

(a) A tribunal of the District that has issued a child-support order consistent with the law of the District, may serve as an initiating tribunal to request a tribunal of another state to enforce: (1) The order if the order is the controlling order and has not been modified by a tribunal of another state that assumed jurisdiction pursuant to the Uniform Interstate Family Support Act; or (2) A money judgment for arrears of support and interest on the order accrued before a determination that an order of a tribunal of another state is the controlling order. (b) A tribunal of the District having continuing jurisdiction over a support order may act as a responding tribunal to enforce the order.  (Feb. 27, 2016, D.C. Law 21-73, § 206, 63 DCR 222.)
DC Code § 46-352.08 (2021)
2021 District of Columbia Code|Title 46 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 3A - Uniform Interstate Family Support|Subchapter II - Jurisdiction|§ 46-352.08. Child-support orders for 2 or more obligees

In responding to registrations or petitions for enforcement of 2 or more child-support orders in effect at the same time with regard to the same obligor and different individual obligees, at least one of which was issued by a tribunal of another state or a foreign country, a tribunal of the District shall enforce those orders in the same manner as if the orders had been issued by a tribunal of the District.  (Feb. 27, 2016, D.C. Law 21-73, § 208, 63 DCR 222.)
DC Code § 46-352.09 (2021)
2021 District of Columbia Code|Title 46 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 3A - Uniform Interstate Family Support|Subchapter II - Jurisdiction|§ 46-352.09. Credit for payments

A tribunal of the District shall credit amounts collected for a particular period pursuant to any child-support order against the amounts owed for the same period under any other child-support order for support of the same child issued by a tribunal of the District, another state, or a foreign country.  (Feb. 27, 2016, D.C. Law 21-73, § 209, 63 DCR 222.)
DC Code § 46-352.10 (2021)
2021 District of Columbia Code|Title 46 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 3A - Uniform Interstate Family Support|Subchapter II - Jurisdiction|§ 46-352.10. Application of chapter to nonresident subject to personal jurisdiction

A tribunal of the District exercising personal jurisdiction over a nonresident in a proceeding under this chapter, under other law of the District relating to a support order, or recognizing a foreign support order, may receive evidence from outside the District pursuant to § 46-353.16, communicate with a tribunal outside the District pursuant to § 46-353.17, and obtain discovery through a tribunal outside the District pursuant to § 46-353.18. In all other respects, subchapters III through VI of this chapter [§§ 46-353.01 through § 46-356.16] do not apply, and the tribunal shall apply the procedural and substantive law of the District.  (Feb. 27, 2016, D.C. Law 21-73, § 210, 63 DCR 222.)
DC Code § 46-352.11 (2021)
2021 District of Columbia Code|Title 46 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 3A - Uniform Interstate Family Support|Subchapter II - Jurisdiction|§ 46-352.11. Continuing, exclusive jurisdiction to modify spousal-support order

(a) A tribunal of the District issuing a spousal-support order consistent with the law of the District has continuing, exclusive jurisdiction to modify the spousal-support order throughout the existence of the support obligation. (b) A tribunal of the District may not modify a spousal-support order issued by a tribunal of another state or a foreign country having continuing, exclusive jurisdiction over that order under the law of that state or foreign country. (c) A tribunal of the District that has continuing, exclusive jurisdiction over a spousal-support order, may serve as: (1) An initiating tribunal to request a tribunal of another state to enforce the spousal-support order issued in the District; or (2) A responding tribunal to enforce or modify its own spousal-support order.  (Feb. 27, 2016, D.C. Law 21-73, § 211, 63 DCR 222.)
DC Code § 46-353.01 (2021)
2021 District of Columbia Code|Title 46 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 3A - Uniform Interstate Family Support|Subchapter III - Civil Provisions of General Application|§ 46-353.01. Proceedings under chapter

(a) Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, this subchapter applies to all proceedings under this chapter. (b) An individual petitioner or a support enforcement agency may initiate a proceeding authorized under this chapter by filing a petition in an initiating tribunal for forwarding to a responding tribunal or by filing a petition or a comparable pleading directly in a tribunal of another state or a foreign country which has or can obtain personal jurisdiction over the respondnet.  (Feb. 27, 2016, D.C. Law 21-73, § 301, 63 DCR 222.)
DC Code § 46-353.02 (2021)
2021 District of Columbia Code|Title 46 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 3A - Uniform Interstate Family Support|Subchapter III - Civil Provisions of General Application|§ 46-353.02. Proceeding by minor parent

A minor parent, or a guardian or other legal representative of a minor parent, may maintain a proceeding on behalf of or for the benefit of the minor’s child.  (Feb. 27, 2016, D.C. Law 21-73, § 302, 63 DCR 222.)
DC Code § 46-353.03 (2021)
2021 District of Columbia Code|Title 46 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 3A - Uniform Interstate Family Support|Subchapter III - Civil Provisions of General Application|§ 46-353.03. Application of law of the District

Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, a responding tribunal of the District shall: (1) Apply the procedural and substantive law generally applicable to similar proceedings originating in the District and may exercise all powers and provide all remedies available in those proceedings; and (2) Determine the duty of support and the amount payable in accordance with the law and support guidelines of the District.  (Feb. 27, 2016, D.C. Law 21-73, § 303, 63 DCR 222.)
DC Code § 46-353.04 (2021)
2021 District of Columbia Code|Title 46 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 3A - Uniform Interstate Family Support|Subchapter III - Civil Provisions of General Application|§ 46-353.04. Duties of initiating tribunal

(a) Upon the filing of a petition authorized by this chapter, an initiating tribunal of the District shall forward the petition and its accompanying documents: (1) To the responding tribunal or appropriate support enforcement agency in the responding state; or (2) If the identity of the responding tribunal is unknown, to the state information agency of the responding state with a request that they be forwarded to the appropriate tribunal and that receipt be acknowledged. (b) If requested by the responding tribunal, a tribunal of the District shall issue a certificate or other document and make findings required by the law of the responding state. If the responding tribunal is in a foreign country, upon request the tribunal of the District shall specify the amount of support sought, convert that amount into the equivalent amount in the foreign currency under the applicable official or market exchange rate as publicly reported, and provide any other documents necessary to satisfy the requirements of the responding foreign tribunal.  (Feb. 27, 2016, D.C. Law 21-73, § 304, 63 DCR 222.)
DC Code § 46-353.05 (2021)
2021 District of Columbia Code|Title 46 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 3A - Uniform Interstate Family Support|Subchapter III - Civil Provisions of General Application|§ 46-353.05. Duties and powers of responding tribunal

(a) When a responding tribunal of the District receives a petition or comparable pleading from an initiating tribunal or directly pursuant to § 46-353.01(b), it shall cause the petition or pleading to be filed and notify the petitioner where and when it was filed. (b) A responding tribunal of the District, to the extent not prohibited by other law, may do one or more of the following: (1) Establish or enforce a support order, modify a child-support order, determine the controlling child-support order, or determine parentage of a child; (2) Order an obligor to comply with a support order, specifying the amount and the manner of compliance; (3) Order income withholding; (4) Determine the amount of any arrearages, and specify a method of payment; (5) Enforce orders by civil or criminal contempt, or both; (6) Set aside property for satisfaction of the support order; (7) Place liens and order execution on the obligor’s property; (8) 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; (9) 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; (10) Order the obligor to seek appropriate employment by specified methods; (11) Award reasonable attorney’s fees and other fees and costs; and (12) Grant any other available remedy. (c) A responding tribunal of the District 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. (d) A responding tribunal of the District may not condition the payment of a support order issued under this chapter upon compliance by a party with provisions for visitation. (e) If a responding tribunal of the District 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. (f) If requested to enforce a support order, arrears, or judgment or modify a support order stated in a foreign currency, a responding tribunal of the District 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.  (Feb. 27, 2016, D.C. Law 21-73, § 305, 63 DCR 222.)
DC Code § 46-353.06 (2021)
2021 District of Columbia Code|Title 46 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 3A - Uniform Interstate Family Support|Subchapter III - Civil Provisions of General Application|§ 46-353.06. Inappropriate tribunal

If a petition or comparable pleading is received by an inappropriate tribunal of the District, the tribunal shall forward the pleading and accompanying documents to an appropriate tribunal of the District or of another state and notify the petitioner where and when the pleading was sent.  (Feb. 27, 2016, D.C. Law 21-73, § 306, 63 DCR 222.)
DC Code § 46-353.07 (2021)
2021 District of Columbia Code|Title 46 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 3A - Uniform Interstate Family Support|Subchapter III - Civil Provisions of General Application|§ 46-353.07. Duties of support enforcement agency

(a) In a proceeding under this chapter, a support enforcement agency of the District, upon request: (1) Shall provide services to a petitioner residing in a state; (2) Shall provide services to a petitioner requesting services through a central authority of a foreign country as described in § 46-351.02(6)(A) or (D); and (3) May provide services to a petitioner who is an individual not residing in a state. (b) A support enforcement agency of the District that is providing services to the petitioner shall: (1) Take all steps necessary to enable an appropriate tribunal of the District, another state, or a foreign country to obtain jurisdiction over the respondent; (2) Request an appropriate tribunal to set a date, time, and place for a hearing; (3) Make a reasonable effort to obtain all relevant information, including information as to income and property of the parties; (4) Within 2 days, exclusive of Saturdays, Sundays, and legal holidays, after receipt of notice in a record from an initiating, responding, or registering tribunal, send a copy of the notice to the petitioner; (5) Within 2 days, exclusive of Saturdays, Sundays, and legal holidays, after receipt of communication in a record from the respondent or the respondent’s attorney, send a copy of the communication to the petitioner; and (6) Notify the petitioner if jurisdiction over the respondent cannot be obtained. (c) A support enforcement agency of the District that requests registration of a child-support order in the District for enforcement or for modification shall make reasonable efforts: (1) To ensure that the order to be registered is the controlling order; or (2) If 2 or more child-support orders exist and the identity of the controlling order has not been determined, to ensure that a request for such a determination is made in a tribunal having jurisdiction to do so. (d) A support enforcement agency of the District that requests registration and enforcement of a support order, arrears, or judgment stated in a foreign currency shall convert the amounts stated in the foreign currency into the equivalent amounts in dollars under the applicable official or market exchange rate as publicly reported. (e) A support enforcement agency of the District shall issue or request a tribunal of the District to issue a child-support order and an income-withholding order that redirect payment of current support, arrears, and interest if requested to do so by a support enforcement agency of another state pursuant to § 46-353.19. (f) This chapter does not create or negate a relationship of attorney and client or other fiduciary relationship between a support enforcement agency or the attorney for the agency and the individual being assisted by the agency.  (Feb. 27, 2016, D.C. Law 21-73, § 307, 63 DCR 222.)
DC Code § 46-353.08 (2021)
2021 District of Columbia Code|Title 46 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 3A - Uniform Interstate Family Support|Subchapter III - Civil Provisions of General Application|§ 46-353.08. Duty of Office of the Attorney General

The Office of the Attorney General may determine that a foreign country has established a reciprocal arrangement for child support with the District and take appropriate action for notification of the determination.  (Feb. 27, 2016, D.C. Law 21-73, § 308, 63 DCR 222.)
DC Code § 46-353.09 (2021)
2021 District of Columbia Code|Title 46 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 3A - Uniform Interstate Family Support|Subchapter III - Civil Provisions of General Application|§ 46-353.09. Private counsel

An individual may employ private counsel to represent the individual in proceedings authorized by this chapter.  (Feb. 27, 2016, D.C. Law 21-73, § 309, 63 DCR 222.)
DC Code § 46-353.10 (2021)
2021 District of Columbia Code|Title 46 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 3A - Uniform Interstate Family Support|Subchapter III - Civil Provisions of General Application|§ 46-353.10. Duties of Office of the Attorney General as state information agency

(a) The Office of the Attorney General is the state information agency under this chapter. (b) The state information agency shall: (1) Compile and maintain a current list, including addresses, of the tribunals in the District which have jurisdiction under this chapter and any support enforcement agencies in the District 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 District all documents concerning a proceeding under this chapter received from another state or a foreign country; and (4) Obtain information concerning the location of the obligor and the obligor’s property within the District 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.  (Feb. 27, 2016, D.C. Law 21-73, § 310, 63 DCR 222.)
DC Code § 46-353.11 (2021)
2021 District of Columbia Code|Title 46 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 3A - Uniform Interstate Family Support|Subchapter III - Civil Provisions of General Application|§ 46-353.11. Pleadings and accompanying documents

(a) In a proceeding under this chapter, 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 § 46-353.12, 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.  (Feb. 27, 2016, D.C. Law 21-73, § 311, 63 DCR 222.)
DC Code § 46-353.12 (2021)
2021 District of Columbia Code|Title 46 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 3A - Uniform Interstate Family Support|Subchapter III - Civil Provisions of General Application|§ 46-353.12. 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 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.  (Feb. 27, 2016, D.C. Law 21-73, § 312, 63 DCR 222.)
DC Code § 46-353.13 (2021)
2021 District of Columbia Code|Title 46 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 3A - Uniform Interstate Family Support|Subchapter III - Civil Provisions of General Application|§ 46-353.13. Costs and fees

(a) The petitioner may not be required to pay a filing fee or other costs. (b) If an obligee prevails, a responding tribunal of the District 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 subchapter VI of this chapter [§ 46-356.01 et seq.], a hearing is presumed to have been requested primarily for delay if a registered support order is confirmed or enforced without change.  (Feb. 27, 2016, D.C. Law 21-73, § 313, 63 DCR 222.)
DC Code § 46-353.14 (2021)
2021 District of Columbia Code|Title 46 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 3A - Uniform Interstate Family Support|Subchapter III - Civil Provisions of General Application|§ 46-353.14. Limited immunity of petitioner

(a) Participation by a petitioner in a proceeding under this chapter 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 the District to participate in a proceeding under this chapter. (c) The immunity granted by this section does not extend to civil litigation based on acts unrelated to a proceeding under this chapter committed by a party while physically present in the District to participate in the proceeding.  (Feb. 27, 2016, D.C. Law 21-73, § 314, 63 DCR 222.)
DC Code § 46-353.15 (2021)
2021 District of Columbia Code|Title 46 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 3A - Uniform Interstate Family Support|Subchapter III - Civil Provisions of General Application|§ 46-353.15. 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 chapter.  (Feb. 27, 2016, D.C. Law 21-73, § 315, 63 DCR 222.)