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MS Code § 93-25-307 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 93 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 25 - Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|Article 3 - Civil Provisions of General Application|§ 93-25-307. Duties of support enforcement agency

 In a proceeding under this chapter, a support enforcement agency of this state, upon request:    Shall provide services to a complainant residing in a state;   Shall provide services to a complainant requesting services through a central authority of a foreign country as described in Section 93-25-102(5) (A) or (D); and   May provide services to a complainant who is an individual not residing in a state.   Within two (2) days, exclusive of Saturdays, Sundays and legal holidays, after receipt of a notice in a record from an initiating, responding or registering tribunal, send a copy of the notice to the complainant;   Within two (2) days, exclusive of Saturdays, Sundays and legal holidays, after receipt of a communication in a record from the defendant or the defendant's attorney, send a copy of the communication to the complainant; and   Notify the complainant if jurisdiction over the defendant cannot be obtained.    A support enforcement agency of this state that is providing services to the complainant as appropriate shall:   Take all steps necessary to enable an appropriate tribunal of this state, another state, or a foreign country to obtain jurisdiction over the defendant;   Request an appropriate tribunal to set a date, time and place for a hearing;   Make a reasonable effort to obtain all relevant information, including information as to income and property of the parties;   A support enforcement agency of this state that requests registration of a child-support order in this state for enforcement or for modification shall make reasonable efforts:   To ensure that the order to be registered is the controlling order; or   If two (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.   A support enforcement agency of this state that requests registration and enforcement of a child-support order, arrearages 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.   A support enforcement agency of this state shall request a tribunal of this state to issue a child-support order and an income-withholding order that redirect payment of current support, arrearages and interest if requested to do so by a support enforcement agency of another state pursuant to Section 93-25-319.   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.
MS Code § 93-25-308 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 93 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 25 - Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|Article 3 - Civil Provisions of General Application|§ 93-25-308. Duty of the Executive Director of the Department of Human Services

 If the Executive Director of the Department of Human Services determines that the support enforcement agency is neglecting or refusing to provide services to an individual, the executive director may order the agency to perform its duties under this chapter or may provide those services directly to the individual.   The Executive Director of the Department of Human Services may determine that a foreign country has established a reciprocal arrangement for child support with this state and take appropriate action for notification of the determination.
MS Code § 93-25-309 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 93 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 25 - Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|Article 3 - Civil Provisions of General Application|§ 93-25-309. Private counsel

 An individual may employ private counsel to represent the individual in proceedings authorized by this chapter.
MS Code § 93-25-310 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 93 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 25 - Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|Article 3 - Civil Provisions of General Application|§ 93-25-310. Duties of Department of Human Services

 The Department of Human Services is the state information agency under this chapter.   The state information agency shall:    Compile and maintain a current list, including addresses, of the tribunals in this state which have jurisdiction under this chapter and any support enforcement agencies in this state, and transmit a copy to the state information agency of every other state;   Maintain a register of names and addresses of tribunals and support enforcement agencies received from other states;   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 chapter received from another state or a foreign country; and   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.
MS Code § 93-25-311 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 93 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 25 - Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|Article 3 - Civil Provisions of General Application|§ 93-25-311. Pleadings and accompanying documents

 In a proceeding under this chapter, a complainant 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 complaint. Unless otherwise ordered under Section 93-25-312, the complaint 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 complaint must be accompanied by a copy of any support order known to have been issued by another tribunal. The complaint may include any other information that may assist in locating or identifying the defendant.   The complaint must specify the relief sought. The complaint 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.
MS Code § 93-25-312 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 93 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 25 - Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|Article 3 - Civil Provisions of General Application|§ 93-25-312. 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 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.
MS Code § 93-25-313 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 93 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 25 - Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|Article 3 - Civil Provisions of General Application|§ 93-25-313. Costs and fees

 The complainant may not be required to pay a filing fee or other costs.   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.   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 Article 6, a hearing is presumed to have been requested primarily for delay if a registered support order is confirmed or enforced without change.
MS Code § 93-25-314 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 93 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 25 - Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|Article 3 - Civil Provisions of General Application|§ 93-25-314. Limited immunity of complainant

 Participation by a complainant 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 complainant in another proceeding.   A complainant is not amenable to service of civil process while physically present in this state to participate in a proceeding under this chapter.   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.
MS Code § 93-25-315 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 93 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 25 - Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|Article 3 - Civil Provisions of General Application|§ 93-25-315. 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.
MS Code § 93-25-316 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 93 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 25 - Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|Article 3 - Civil Provisions of General Application|§ 93-25-316. Special rules of evidence and procedure

 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.   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.   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.   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.   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.   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.   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.   A privilege against disclosure of communications between spouses does not apply in a proceeding under this chapter.   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.   A voluntary acknowledgement of paternity, certified as a true copy, is admissible to establish parentage of the child.
MS Code § 93-25-317 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 93 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 25 - Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|Article 3 - Civil Provisions of General Application|§ 93-25-317. 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.
MS Code § 93-25-318 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 93 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 25 - Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|Article 3 - Civil Provisions of General Application|§ 93-25-318. Assistance with discovery

 A tribunal of this state may:    Request a tribunal outside this state to assist in obtaining discovery; and   Upon request, compel a person over which it has jurisdiction to respond to a discovery order issued by a tribunal outside this state.
MS Code § 93-25-319 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 93 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 25 - Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|Article 3 - Civil Provisions of General Application|§ 93-25-319. Receipt and disbursement of payments

 A support enforcement agency or tribunal of this state shall disburse promptly any amounts received pursuant to a support order, as directed by the order. The agency or tribunal shall furnish to a requesting party or tribunal 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.   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 Human Services or a tribunal of this state shall:    Direct that the support payment be made to the support enforcement agency in the state in which the obligee is receiving services; and   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.    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.
MS Code § 93-25-401 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 93 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 25 - Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|Article 4 - Establishment of Support Order or Determination of Parentage|§ 93-25-401. Establishment of support order

 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:    The individual seeking the order resides outside this state; or   The support enforcement agency seeking the order is located outside this state.   Identified as the father of the child through genetic testing;   An alleged father who has declined to submit to genetic testing;   Shown by clear and convincing evidence to be the father of the child;   An acknowledged father as provided by applicable state law;   The mother of the child; or   An individual who has been ordered to pay child support in a previous proceeding and the order has not been reversed or vacated.    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:   A presumed father of the child;   Petitioning to have his paternity adjudicated;   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 93-25-305.
MS Code § 93-25-402 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 93 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 25 - Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|Article 4 - Establishment of Support Order or Determination of Parentage|§ 93-25-402. 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.
MS Code § 93-25-501 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 93 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 25 - Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|Article 5 - Enforcement of Support Order Without Registration|§ 93-25-501. 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 person defined as the obligor's employer under Sections 93-11-101 through 93-11-119 without first filing a complaint or comparable pleading or registering the order with a tribunal of this state.
MS Code § 93-25-502 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 93 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 25 - Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|Article 5 - Enforcement of Support Order Without Registration|§ 93-25-502. Employer's compliance with income-withholding order of another state

 Upon receipt of an income-withholding order, the obligor's employer shall immediately provide a copy of the order to the obligor.   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.   Except as otherwise provided in subsection (d) and Section 93-25-503, the employer shall withhold and distribute the funds as directed in the withholding order by complying with the terms of the order which specify:    The duration and amount of periodic payments of current child support, stated as a sum certain;   The person designated to receive payments and the address to which the payments are to be forwarded;   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;   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   The amount of periodic payments of arrearages and interest on arrearages, stated as sums certain.    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:   The employer's fees for processing an income-withholding order;   The maximum amount permitted to be withheld from the obligor's income; and   The times within which the employer must implement the withholding order and forward the child-support payment.
MS Code § 93-25-503 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 93 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 25 - Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|Article 5 - Enforcement of Support Order Without Registration|§ 93-25-503. Employer's compliance with two or more income-withholding orders of another state

 If an obligor's employer receives two (2) 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 (2) or more child-support obligees.
MS Code § 93-25-504 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 93 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 25 - Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|Article 5 - Enforcement of Support Order Without Registration|§ 93-25-504. Immunity from civil liability

 An employer that complies with an income-withholding order issued in another state in accordance with this article 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.
MS Code § 93-25-505 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 93 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 25 - Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|Article 5 - Enforcement of Support Order Without Registration|§ 93-25-505. 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 order issued by a tribunal of this state.
MS Code § 93-25-506 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 93 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 25 - Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|Article 5 - Enforcement of Support Order Without Registration|§ 93-25-506. Contest by obligor

 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 Article 6, or otherwise contesting the order in the same manner as if the order had been issued by a tribunal of this state.   The obligor shall give notice of the contest to:    A support enforcement agency providing services to the obligee;   Each employer that has directly received an income-withholding order relating to the obligor; and   The person designated to receive payments in the income-withholding order, or if no person is designated, to the obligee.
MS Code § 93-25-507 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 93 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 25 - Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|Article 5 - Enforcement of Support Order Without Registration|§ 93-25-507. Administrative enforcement of orders

 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.   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 chapter.