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AR Code § 9-17-316 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 9 - Family Law|Subtitle 2 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 17 - Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|Article 3 - Civil Provisions of General Application|§ 9-17-316. Special rules of evidence and procedure

 (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 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.  (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 chapter.  (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 chapter.  (j) A voluntary acknowledgment of paternity, certified as a true copy, is admissible to establish parentage of the child.
AR Code § 9-17-317 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 9 - Family Law|Subtitle 2 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 17 - Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|Article 3 - Civil Provisions of General Application|§ 9-17-317. 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.
AR Code § 9-17-318 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 9 - Family Law|Subtitle 2 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 17 - Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|Article 3 - Civil Provisions of General Application|§ 9-17-318. Assistance with discovery

 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.
AR Code § 9-17-319 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 9 - Family Law|Subtitle 2 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 17 - Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|Article 3 - Civil Provisions of General Application|§ 9-17-319. Receipt and disbursement of payments

 (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 support enforcement agency of this state 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.
AR Code § 9-17-401 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 9 - Family Law|Subtitle 2 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 17 - Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|Article 4 - Establishment of Support Order or Determination of Parentage|§ 9-17-401. Establishment of support order

 (a) 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:  (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 § 9-10-120;  (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 § 9-17-305.
AR Code § 9-17-402 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 9 - Family Law|Subtitle 2 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 17 - Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|Article 4 - Establishment of Support Order or Determination of Parentage|§ 9-17-402. 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.
AR Code § 9-17-501 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 9 - Family Law|Subtitle 2 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 17 - Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|Article 5 - Enforcement of Support Order Without Registration|§ 9-17-501. 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 the income-withholding law of this state without first filing a petition or comparable pleading or registering the order with a tribunal of this state.
AR Code § 9-17-502 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 9 - Family Law|Subtitle 2 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 17 - Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|Article 5 - Enforcement of Support Order Without Registration|§ 9-17-502. Employer's compliance with income-withholding order of another state

 (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 § 9-17-503, 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.
AR Code § 9-17-503 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 9 - Family Law|Subtitle 2 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 17 - Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|Article 5 - Enforcement of Support Order Without Registration|§ 9-17-503. Employer's compliance with two or more income-withholding orders

 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.
AR Code § 9-17-504 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 9 - Family Law|Subtitle 2 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 17 - Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|Article 5 - Enforcement of Support Order Without Registration|§ 9-17-504. Immunity from civil liability

 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.
AR Code § 9-17-505 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 9 - Family Law|Subtitle 2 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 17 - Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|Article 5 - Enforcement of Support Order Without Registration|§ 9-17-505. 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.
AR Code § 9-17-506 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 9 - Family Law|Subtitle 2 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 17 - Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|Article 5 - Enforcement of Support Order Without Registration|§ 9-17-506. Contest by obligor

 (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 Article 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.
AR Code § 9-17-507 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 9 - Family Law|Subtitle 2 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 17 - Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|Article 5 - Enforcement of Support Order Without Registration|§ 9-17-507. Administrative enforcement of orders

 (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 chapter.
AR Code § 9-17-701 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 9 - Family Law|Subtitle 2 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 17 - Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|Article 7 - Support Proceeding Under Convention|§ 9-17-701. Definitions

 In this article:   (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 § 9-17-102(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 § 9-17-102(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 § 9-17-102(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:  (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 United States Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services.     (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
AR Code § 9-17-702 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 9 - Family Law|Subtitle 2 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 17 - Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|Article 7 - Support Proceeding Under Convention|§ 9-17-702. Applicability

 This article applies only to a support proceeding under the Convention. In such a proceeding, if a provision of this article is inconsistent with Articles 1 through 6, this article controls.
AR Code § 9-17-703 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 9 - Family Law|Subtitle 2 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 17 - Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|Article 7 - Support Proceeding Under Convention|§ 9-17-703. Relationship of Office of Child Support Enforcement to United States central authority

 The Office of Child Support Enforcement of the Revenue Division of the Department of Finance Administration of this state is recognized as the agency designated by the United States central authority to perform specific functions under the Convention.
AR Code § 9-17-704 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 9 - Family Law|Subtitle 2 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 17 - Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|Article 7 - Support Proceeding Under Convention|§ 9-17-704. Initiation by Office of Child Support Enforcement of support proceeding under Convention

 (a) In a support proceeding under this article, the Office of Child Support Enforcement of the Revenue Division of the Department of Finance and Administration of this state shall:  (1) transmit and receive applications; and  (2) initiate or facilitate the institution of a proceeding regarding an application in a tribunal of this state.    (b) The following support proceedings are available to an obligee under the Convention:  (1) recognition or recognition and enforcement of a foreign support order;  (2) enforcement of a support order issued or recognized in this state;  (3) establishment of a support order if there is no existing order, including, if necessary, determination of parentage of a child;  (4) establishment of a support order if recognition of a foreign support order is refused under § 9-17-708(b)(2), (4), or (9);  (5) modification of a support order of a tribunal of this state; and  (6) modification of a support order of a tribunal of another state or a foreign country.    (c) The following support proceedings are available under the Convention to an obligor against which there is an existing support order:  (1) recognition of an order suspending or limiting enforcement of an existing support order of a tribunal of this state;  (2) modification of a support order of a tribunal of this state; and  (3) modification of a support order of a tribunal of another state or a foreign country.    (d) A tribunal of this state may not require security, bond, or deposit, however described, to guarantee the payment of costs and expenses in proceedings under the Convention.
AR Code § 9-17-705 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 9 - Family Law|Subtitle 2 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 17 - Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|Article 7 - Support Proceeding Under Convention|§ 9-17-705. Direct request

 (a) A petitioner may file a direct request seeking establishment or modification of a support order or determination of parentage of a child. In the proceeding, the law of this state applies.  (b) A petitioner may file a direct request seeking recognition and enforcement of a support order or support agreement. In the proceeding, §§ 9-17-706 through 9-17-713 apply.  (c) In a direct request for recognition and enforcement of a Convention support order or foreign support agreement:  (1) a security, bond, or deposit is not required to guarantee the payment of costs and expenses; and  (2) an obligee or obligor that in the issuing country has benefited from free legal assistance is entitled to benefit, at least to the same extent, from any free legal assistance provided for by the law of this state under the same circumstances.    (d) A petitioner filing a direct request is not entitled to assistance from the Office of Child Support Enforcement of the Revenue Division of the Department of Finance and Administration.  (e) This article does not prevent the application of laws of this state that provide simplified, more expeditious rules regarding a direct request for recognition and enforcement of a foreign support order or foreign support agreement.
AR Code § 9-17-706 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 9 - Family Law|Subtitle 2 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 17 - Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|Article 7 - Support Proceeding Under Convention|§ 9-17-706. Registration of Convention support order

 (a) Except as otherwise provided in this article, a party who is an individual or a support enforcement agency seeking recognition of a Convention support order shall register the order in this state as provided in Article 6.  (b) Notwithstanding §§ 9-17-311 and 9-17-602(a), a request for registration of a Convention support order must be accompanied by:  (1) a complete text of the support order or an abstract or extract of the support order drawn up by the issuing foreign tribunal, which may be in the form recommended by the Hague Conference on Private International Law;  (2) a record stating that the support order is enforceable in the issuing country;  (3) if the respondent did not appear and was not represented in the proceedings in the issuing country, a record attesting, as appropriate, either that the respondent had proper notice of the proceedings and an opportunity to be heard or that the respondent had proper notice of the support order and an opportunity to be heard in a challenge or appeal on fact or law before a tribunal;  (4) a record showing the amount of arrears, if any, and the date the amount was calculated;  (5) a record showing a requirement for automatic adjustment of the amount of support, if any, and the information necessary to make the appropriate calculations; and  (6) if necessary, a record showing the extent to which the applicant received free legal assistance in the issuing country.    (c) A request for registration of a Convention support order may seek recognition and partial enforcement of the order.  (d) A tribunal of this state may vacate the registration of a Convention support order without the filing of a contest under § 9-17-707 only if, acting on its own motion, the tribunal finds that recognition and enforcement of the order would be manifestly incompatible with public policy.  (e) The tribunal shall promptly notify the parties of the registration or the order vacating the registration of a Convention support order.
AR Code § 9-17-707 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 9 - Family Law|Subtitle 2 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 17 - Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|Article 7 - Support Proceeding Under Convention|§ 9-17-707. Contest of registered Convention support order

 (a) Except as otherwise provided in this article, §§ 9-17-605 through 9-17-608 apply to a contest of a registered Convention support order.  (b) A party contesting a registered Convention support order shall file a contest not later than 30 days after notice of the registration, but if the contesting party does not reside in the United States, the contest must be filed not later than 60 days after notice of the registration.  (c) If the nonregistering party fails to contest the registered Convention support order by the time specified in subsection (b), the order is enforceable.  (d) A contest of a registered Convention support order may be based only on grounds set forth in § 9-17-708. The contesting party bears the burden of proof.  (e) In a contest of a registered Convention support order, a tribunal of this state:  (1) is bound by the findings of fact on which the foreign tribunal based its jurisdiction; and  (2) may not review the merits of the order.    (f) A tribunal of this state deciding a contest of a registered Convention support order shall promptly notify the parties of its decision.  (g) A challenge or appeal, if any, does not stay the enforcement of a Convention support order unless there are exceptional circumstances.