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WI Stat § 769.311 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 769 - Uniform interstate family support act.|769.311 - Pleadings and accompanying documents.

769.311  Pleadings and accompanying documents. (1) 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 s. 769.312, the petition or accompanying documents must provide, so far as known, the names, residential addresses, 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. (2) 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.History:  1993 a. 326; 2009 a. 321; 2015 a. 82 s. 12.
WI Stat § 769.312 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 769 - Uniform interstate family support act.|769.312 - Nondisclosure of information in exceptional circumstances.

769.312  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 the 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. History:  1993 a. 326; 2009 a. 321; 2015 a. 82 s. 12.
WI Stat § 769.313 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 769 - Uniform interstate family support act.|769.313 - Costs and fees.

769.313  Costs and fees. (1) The petitioner may not be required to pay a filing fee or other costs. (2) 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 or 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. (3) 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 subch. VI, a hearing is presumed to have been requested primarily for delay if a registered support order is confirmed or enforced without change.History:  1993 a. 326; 2009 a. 321; 2015 a. 82 s. 12.
WI Stat § 769.314 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 769 - Uniform interstate family support act.|769.314 - Limited immunity of petitioner.

769.314  Limited immunity of petitioner. (1) 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. (2) A petitioner is not amenable to service of civil process while physically present in this state to participate in a proceeding under this chapter. (3) 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 this state to participate in the proceeding.History:  1993 a. 326; 2009 a. 321; 2015 a. 82 s. 12.
WI Stat § 769.315 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 769 - Uniform interstate family support act.|769.315 - Nonparentage as defense.

769.315  Nonparentage as defense. 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 chapter.History:  1993 a. 326.
WI Stat § 769.316 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 769 - Uniform interstate family support act.|769.316 - Special rules of evidence and procedure.

769.316  Special rules of evidence and procedure. (1) 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. (2) An affidavit, a document substantially complying with federally mandated forms, or a document incorporated by reference in any of them, that 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. (3) 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. (4) Copies of bills for testing for parentage of a child, or for prenatal and postnatal health care of the mother and child, or copies of reports of medical assistance payments under subch. IV of ch. 49 for such testing or prenatal and postnatal health care, furnished to the adverse party at least 10 days before trial, are admissible in evidence to prove the amount of the charges billed or the amount of the medical assistance paid and that the charges or payments were reasonable, necessary, and customary. (5) 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. (6) In a proceeding under this chapter, 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. (7) 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. (8) A privilege against disclosure of communications between spouses does not apply in a proceeding under this chapter. (9) The defense of immunity based on the relationship of husband and wife or parent and child does not apply in a proceeding under this chapter. (10) A voluntary acknowledgment of paternity, certified as a true copy, is admissible to establish parentage of the child.History:  1993 a. 326; 1995 a. 27; 2009 a. 321; 2015 a. 82 s. 12.
WI Stat § 769.317 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 769 - Uniform interstate family support act.|769.317 - Communications between tribunals.

769.317  Communications between tribunals. 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.History:  1993 a. 326; 2009 a. 321; 2015 a. 82 s. 12.
WI Stat § 769.318 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 769 - Uniform interstate family support act.|769.318 - Assistance with discovery.

769.318  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 over which it has jurisdiction to respond to a discovery order issued by a tribunal outside this state.History:  1993 a. 326; 2009 a. 321; 2015 a. 82 s. 12.
WI Stat § 769.319 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 769 - Uniform interstate family support act.|769.319 - Receipt and disbursement of payments.

769.319  Receipt and disbursement of payments. (1) A support enforcement agency, its designee, or a tribunal of this state shall disburse promptly any amounts received under a support order, as directed by the order. The agency, its designee, or the tribunal shall furnish to a requesting party or tribunal of another state or a foreign country a certified statement by the custodian of the record of the amounts and dates of all payments received. (2) If neither the obligor, nor the obligee who is an individual, nor the child resides in this state, upon request from the 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:(a) Direct that the support payment be made to the support enforcement agency in the state in which the obligee is receiving services.(b) Issue and send to the obligor's employer a conforming income-withholding order or an administrative notice of change of payee, reflecting the redirected payments. (3) The support enforcement agency of this state receiving redirected payments from another state under a law similar to sub. (2) shall furnish to a requesting party or tribunal of the other state a certified statement by the custodian of the record of the amount and dates of all payments received.History:  1993 a. 326; 1997 a. 27; 2009 a. 321; 2015 a. 82 s. 12.
WI Stat § 769.401 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 769 - Uniform interstate family support act.|769.401 - Petition to establish support order.

769.401  Petition to establish support order. (1) If a support order entitled to recognition under this chapter 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 applies:(a) The individual seeking the order resides outside this state.(b) The support enforcement agency seeking the order is located outside this state. (2) The tribunal may issue a temporary child support order if the tribunal determines that such an order is appropriate and if the individual ordered to pay is any of the following:(a) A presumed father of the child.(b) An individual who is petitioning to have his paternity adjudicated.(c) An individual who has been identified as the father of the child through genetic testing.(d) An alleged father of the child who has declined to submit to genetic testing.(e) An individual who has been shown by clear and convincing evidence to be the father of the child.(f) An individual who has acknowledged paternity of the child under s. 767.805.(g) The mother of the child.(h) An individual who has been ordered to pay child support in a previous proceeding and the order has not been reversed or vacated. (3) Upon finding, after notice and an 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 s. 769.305.History:  1993 a. 326; 2009 a. 321; 2015 a. 82 s. 12.
WI Stat § 769.402 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 769 - Uniform interstate family support act.|769.402 - Proceeding to determine parentage.

769.402  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 chapter or a law or procedure substantially similar to this chapter. History:  2009 a. 321; 2015 a. 82 s. 12.
WI Stat § 769.501 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 769 - Uniform interstate family support act.|769.501 - Employer's receipt of income-withholding order of another state.

769.501  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 obligor's employer or other debtor, as specified in s. 767.75 (1f), without first filing a petition or comparable pleading or registering the income-withholding order with a tribunal of this state.History:  1993 a. 326; 1997 a. 27; 2009 a. 321; 2015 a. 82 ss. 5, 12.
WI Stat § 769.502 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 769 - Uniform interstate family support act.|769.502 - Employer's compliance with income-withholding order of another state.

769.502  Employer's compliance with income-withholding order of another state. (1) Upon receipt of an income-withholding order under s. 769.501, the obligor's employer shall immediately provide a copy of the order to the obligor. (2) The employer shall treat an income-withholding order issued in another state that appears to be regular on its face as if it had been issued by a tribunal of this state. (3) Except as provided in sub. (4) and s. 769.503, the employer shall withhold and distribute the funds as directed in the income-withholding order by complying with the terms of the order, as applicable, that specify any of the following:(a) The duration and amount of periodic payments of current child support, stated as a sum certain.(b) The person designated to receive payments and the address to which the payments are to be forwarded.(c) Medical support, whether in the form of periodic cash payments, stated as a sum certain, or the provision of health insurance coverage for the child under a policy available through the obligor's employment.(d) The amounts of periodic payments of fees and costs for a support enforcement agency, the issuing tribunal or the obligee's attorney, stated as sums certain.(e) The amount of periodic payments of arrears and interest on arrears, stated as a sum certain. (4) The employer shall comply with the law of the state of the obligor's principal place of employment for withholding from income with respect to all of the following:(a) The employer's fee for processing an income-withholding order.(b) The maximum amount permitted to be withheld from the obligor's income.(c) The time periods within which the employer must implement the income-withholding order and forward the child support payment.History:  1993 a. 326; 1997 a. 27; 2015 a. 82.
WI Stat § 769.503 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 769 - Uniform interstate family support act.|769.503 - Compliance with multiple income-withholding orders.

769.503  Compliance with multiple income-withholding orders. If an obligor's employer receives multiple orders to withhold support from the earnings of the same obligor, the employer shall be considered to have satisfied 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.History:  1997 a. 27.
WI Stat § 769.504 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 769 - Uniform interstate family support act.|769.504 - Immunity from civil liability.

769.504  Immunity from civil liability. An employer that complies with an income-withholding order issued in another state in accordance with this subchapter is not subject to civil liability to any individual or agency with regard to the employer's withholding of child support from an obligor's income.History:  1997 a. 27.
WI Stat § 769.505 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 769 - Uniform interstate family support act.|769.505 - Penalties for noncompliance.

769.505  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 income-withholding order issued by a tribunal of this state. History:  1997 a. 27; 2009 a. 321; 2015 a. 82 s. 12.
WI Stat § 769.506 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 769 - Uniform interstate family support act.|769.506 - Contest by obligor.

769.506  Contest by obligor. (1) 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 subch. VI, or otherwise contesting the order in the same manner as if the order had been issued by a tribunal of this state. Section 769.604 applies to the contest. (2) The obligor shall give notice of the contest to all of the following:(a) A support enforcement agency providing services to the obligee.(b) Each employer that has directly received an income-withholding order.(c) Except as provided in par. (d), the person designated to receive payments in the income-withholding order.(d) If no person is designated to receive payments in the income-withholding order, the obligee.History:  1997 a. 27 ss. 5118 to 5120, 5125, 5126; 2009 a. 321; 2015 a. 82 ss. 7, 8, 12.
WI Stat § 769.507 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 769 - Uniform interstate family support act.|769.507 - Administrative enforcement of orders.

769.507  Administrative enforcement of orders. (1) 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. (2) 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 as provided in this chapter.History:  1997 a. 27; 2009 a. 321; 2015 a. 82 s. 12.
WI Stat § 769.601 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 769 - Uniform interstate family support act.|769.601 - Registration of order for enforcement.

769.601  Registration of order for enforcement. A support order or an income-withholding order issued in another state or a foreign support order may be registered in this state for enforcement. History:  1993 a. 326; 2009 a. 321; 2015 a. 82 s. 12.
WI Stat § 769.602 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 769 - Uniform interstate family support act.|769.602 - Procedure to register order for enforcement.

769.602  Procedure to register order for enforcement. (1) Except as provided in s. 769.706, a support order or income-withholding order of another state or a foreign support order may be registered in this state by sending all of the following records to the appropriate tribunal in this state:(a) A letter of transmittal to the tribunal requesting registration and enforcement.(b) Two copies, including one certified copy, of all orders to be registered, including any modification of an order.(c) A sworn statement by the person requesting registration or a certified statement by the custodian of the records showing the amount of any arrearage.(d) The name of the obligor and any of the following that are known:1. The obligor's address and social security number.2. The name and address of the obligor's employer and any other source of income of the obligor.3. A description and the location of property of the obligor in this state not exempt from execution.(e) Except as provided in s. 769.312, the name and address of the obligee and, if applicable, the agency or person to whom support payments are to be remitted. (2) On receipt of a request for registration, the registering tribunal shall cause the order to be filed as an order of another state or a foreign country, together with one copy of the documents and information, regardless of their form.  (3) A petition or comparable pleading seeking a remedy that must be affirmatively sought under other law of this state may be filed at the same time as the request for registration or later. The pleading must specify the grounds for the remedy sought. (4) If 2 or more orders are in effect, the person requesting registration must do all of the following:(a) Furnish to the tribunal a copy of every support order that is asserted to be in effect in addition to the documents specified in this section.(b) Specify the order that is alleged to be the controlling order, if any.(c) Specify the amount of the consolidated arrears, if any. (5) 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. History:  1993 a. 326; 2009 a. 321; 2015 a. 82 s. 12.
WI Stat § 769.603 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 769 - Uniform interstate family support act.|769.603 - Effect of registration for enforcement.

769.603  Effect of registration for enforcement. (1) A support order or income-withholding order issued in another state or a foreign support order is registered when the order is filed in the registering tribunal of this state. (2) A registered support order issued in another state or a foreign country is enforceable in the same manner and is subject to the same procedures as an order issued by a tribunal of this state. (3) Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, a tribunal of this state shall recognize and enforce, but may not modify, a registered support order if the issuing tribunal had jurisdiction.History:  1993 a. 326; 2009 a. 321; 2015 a. 82 s. 12.
WI Stat § 769.604 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 769 - Uniform interstate family support act.|769.604 - Choice of law.

769.604  Choice of law. (1) Except as otherwise provided in sub. (4), the law of the issuing state or foreign country governs all of the following:(a) The nature, extent, amount, and duration of current payments under a registered support order.(b) The computation and payment of arrearages and accrual of interest on the arrearages under the support order.(c) The existence and satisfaction of other obligations under the support order. (2) In a proceeding for arrearages under a registered support order, the statute of limitations under the laws of this state or of the issuing state or foreign country, whichever is longer, applies. (3) A responding tribunal of this state shall apply the procedures and remedies of this state to enforce current support and collect arrearages and interest due on a support order of another state or a foreign country that is registered in this state. (4) After a tribunal of this state or another state determines which is the controlling order and issues an order consolidating arrearages, if any, a tribunal of this state shall prospectively apply the law of the state or foreign country issuing the controlling order, including its law on interest on arrearages, on current and future support, and on consolidated arrearages.History:  1993 a. 326; 2009 a. 321; 2015 a. 82 s. 12.