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MA Gen L ch 5 § 5-507 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part II - Real and Personal Property and Domestic Relations|Title III - Domestic Relations|Chapter 209d - Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|Article 5 - Enforcement of Support Order Without Registration.|Section 5-507 - Administrative Enforcement of Orders

Section 5–507. 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 the commonwealth.  (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 the commonwealth 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.
MA Gen L ch 5 § 5-506 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part II - Real and Personal Property and Domestic Relations|Title III - Domestic Relations|Chapter 209d - Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|Article 5 - Enforcement of Support Order Without Registration.|Section 5-506 - Contest by Obligor

Section 5–506. 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 or other source of periodic income in the commonwealth by registering the order in a tribunal of the commonwealth 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 the commonwealth.  (b) The obligor shall give notice of the contest to:  (1) a support enforcement agency providing services to the obligee;  (2) each employer or other source of periodic income 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.
MA Gen L ch 5 § 5-505 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part II - Real and Personal Property and Domestic Relations|Title III - Domestic Relations|Chapter 209d - Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|Article 5 - Enforcement of Support Order Without Registration.|Section 5-505 - Penalties for Noncompliance

Section 5–505. Penalties for noncompliance. An employer or other source of periodic income 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 the commonwealth.
MA Gen L ch 5 § 5-502 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part II - Real and Personal Property and Domestic Relations|Title III - Domestic Relations|Chapter 209d - Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|Article 5 - Enforcement of Support Order Without Registration.|Section 5-502 - Employer's Compliance With Income Withholding Order of Another State

Section 5–502. Employer's compliance with income withholding order of another state.  (a) Upon receipt of an income withholding order, the obligor's employer or other source of periodic income shall immediately provide a copy of the order to the obligor.  (b) The employer or other source of periodic income 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 the commonwealth.  (c) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (d) and section 5–503, the employer or other source of periodic income 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 or other source of periodic income 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 fee of the employer or other source of periodic income 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 or other source of periodic income must implement the withholding order and forward the child support payment.
MA Gen L ch 5 § 5-503 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part II - Real and Personal Property and Domestic Relations|Title III - Domestic Relations|Chapter 209d - Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|Article 5 - Enforcement of Support Order Without Registration.|Section 5-503 - Employer's Compliance With 2 or More Income Withholding Orders

Section 5–503. Employer's compliance with 2 or more income withholding orders. If an obligor's employer or other source of periodic income receives 2 or more income withholding orders with respect to the earnings of the same obligor, the employer or other source of periodic income satisfies the terms of the orders if the employer or other source of periodic income 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 2 or more child support obligees.
MA Gen L ch 5 § 5-501 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part II - Real and Personal Property and Domestic Relations|Title III - Domestic Relations|Chapter 209d - Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|Article 5 - Enforcement of Support Order Without Registration.|Section 5-501 - Employer's Receipt of Income-Withholding Order of Another State

Section 5–501. 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 section 1A of chapter 119A or to any other source of periodic income to the obligor, without first filing a petition or comparable pleading or registering the order with a tribunal of the commonwealth.
MA Gen L ch 5 § 5-504 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part II - Real and Personal Property and Domestic Relations|Title III - Domestic Relations|Chapter 209d - Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|Article 5 - Enforcement of Support Order Without Registration.|Section 5-504 - Immunity From Civil Liability

Section 5–504. Immunity from civil liability. An employer or other source of periodic income 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 withholding of child support by the employer or other source of periodic income from the obligor's income.
MA Gen L ch 6 § 6-616 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part II - Real and Personal Property and Domestic Relations|Title III - Domestic Relations|Chapter 209d - Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|Article 6 - Registration, Enforcement and Modification of Support Order.|Section 6-616 - Procedure to Register Child Support Order of Foreign Country for Modification

Section 6–616. Procedure to register child support order of foreign country for modification. A party or support enforcement agency seeking to modify, or to modify and enforce, a foreign child support order not under the Convention may register that order in the commonwealth under sections 6–601 to 6–608, inclusive, if the order has not been registered. A petition or comparable pleading for modification may be filed at the same time as a request for registration or at another time. The petition or pleading must specify the grounds for modification.
MA Gen L ch 6 § 6-615 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part II - Real and Personal Property and Domestic Relations|Title III - Domestic Relations|Chapter 209d - Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|Article 6 - Registration, Enforcement and Modification of Support Order.|Section 6-615 - Jurisdiction to Modify Child Support Order of Foreign Country

Section 6–615. Jurisdiction to modify child support order of foreign country.  (a) Except as otherwise provided in section 7–711, if a foreign country lacks or refuses to exercise jurisdiction to modify its child support order pursuant to its laws, a tribunal of the commonwealth may assume jurisdiction to modify the child support order and bind all individuals subject to the personal jurisdiction of the tribunal whether the consent to modification of a child support order otherwise required of the individual pursuant to section 6–611 has been given or whether the individual seeking modification is a resident of the commonwealth or of the foreign country.  (b) An order issued by a tribunal of the commonwealth modifying a foreign child support order pursuant to this section is the controlling order.
MA Gen L ch 6 § 6-614 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part II - Real and Personal Property and Domestic Relations|Title III - Domestic Relations|Chapter 209d - Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|Article 6 - Registration, Enforcement and Modification of Support Order.|Section 6-614 - Notice to Issuing Tribunal of Modification

Section 6–614. Notice to issuing tribunal of modification. Within 30 days after issuance of a modified child support order, the party obtaining the modification shall file a certified copy of the order with the issuing tribunal that had continuing, exclusive jurisdiction over the earlier order and in each tribunal in which the party knows the earlier order has been registered. A party who obtains the order and fails to file a certified copy is subject to appropriate sanctions by a tribunal in which the issue of failure to file arises. The failure to file does not affect the validity or enforceability of the modified order of the new tribunal having continuing, exclusive jurisdiction.
MA Gen L ch 6 § 6-613 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part II - Real and Personal Property and Domestic Relations|Title III - Domestic Relations|Chapter 209d - Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|Article 6 - Registration, Enforcement and Modification of Support Order.|Section 6-613 - Jurisdiction to Modify Child Support Order of Another State When Individual Parties Reside in the Commonwealth

Section 6–613. Jurisdiction to modify child support order of another state when individual parties reside in the commonwealth.  (a) If all of the parties who are individuals reside in the commonwealth and the child does not reside in the issuing state, a tribunal of the commonwealth has jurisdiction to enforce and to modify the issuing state's child support order in a proceeding to register that order.  (b) A tribunal of the commonwealth exercising jurisdiction under this section shall apply Articles 1 and 2, this Article and the procedural and substantive law of the commonwealth to the proceeding for enforcement or modification.  Articles 3, 4, 5, 7, and 8 do not apply.
MA Gen L ch 6 § 6-612 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part II - Real and Personal Property and Domestic Relations|Title III - Domestic Relations|Chapter 209d - Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|Article 6 - Registration, Enforcement and Modification of Support Order.|Section 6-612 - Recognition of Order Modified in Another State

Section 6–612. Recognition of order modified in another state. If a child support order issued by a tribunal of the commonwealth is modified by a tribunal of another state which assumed jurisdiction pursuant to the Uniform Interstate Family Support Act, a tribunal of the commonwealth:  (1) may enforce its order that was modified only as to arrears and interest accruing before the modification;  (2) may provide appropriate relief for violations of its order which occurred before the effective date of the modification; and  (3) shall recognize the modifying order of the other state, upon registration, for the purpose of enforcement.
MA Gen L ch 6 § 6-611 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part II - Real and Personal Property and Domestic Relations|Title III - Domestic Relations|Chapter 209d - Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|Article 6 - Registration, Enforcement and Modification of Support Order.|Section 6-611 - Modification of Child Support Order of Another State

Section 6–611. Modification of child support order of another state.  (a) If section 6–613 does not apply, upon petition a tribunal of the commonwealth may modify a child support order issued in another state which is registered in the commonwealth if, after notice and hearing, the tribunal finds that:  (1) the following requirements are met:  (i) neither the child, nor the obligee who is an individual, nor the obligor resides in the issuing state;  (ii) a petitioner who is a nonresident of the commonwealth seeks modification; and  (iii) the respondent is subject to the personal jurisdiction of the tribunal of the commonwealth; or  (2) the commonwealth is the residence of the child or a party who is an individual is subject to the personal jurisdiction of the tribunal of the commonwealth and all of the parties who are individuals have filed consents in a record in the issuing tribunal for a tribunal of the commonwealth to modify the support order and assume continuing, exclusive jurisdiction.  (b) Modification of a registered child support order is subject to the same requirements, procedures and defenses that apply to the modification of an order issued by a tribunal of the commonwealth and the order may be enforced and satisfied in the same manner.  (c) A tribunal of the commonwealth may not modify any aspect of a child support order that may not be modified under the law of the issuing state, including the duration of the obligation of support. If 2 or more tribunals have issued child support orders for the same obligor and same child, the order that controls and must be so recognized under section 2–207 establishes the aspects of the support order which are nonmodifiable.  (d) In a proceeding to modify a child support order, the law of the state that is determined to have issued the initial controlling order governs the duration of the obligation of support. The obligor's fulfillment of the duty of support established by that order precludes imposition of a further obligation of support by a tribunal of the commonwealth.  (e) On the issuance of an order by a tribunal of the commonwealth modifying a child support order issued in another state, the tribunal of the commonwealth becomes the tribunal having continuing, exclusive jurisdiction.  (f) Notwithstanding subsections (a) to (e), inclusive, and section 2–201(b), a tribunal of the commonwealth retains jurisdiction to modify an order issued by a tribunal of the commonwealth if:  (1) 1 party resides in another state; and  (2) the other party resides outside the United States.
MA Gen L ch 6 § 6-609 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part II - Real and Personal Property and Domestic Relations|Title III - Domestic Relations|Chapter 209d - Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|Article 6 - Registration, Enforcement and Modification of Support Order.|Section 6-609 - Procedure to Register Child Support Order of Another State for Modification

Section 6–609. Procedure to register child support order of another state for modification. A party or support enforcement agency seeking to modify, or to modify and enforce, a child support order issued in another state shall register that order in the commonwealth in the same manner provided in sections 6–601 to 6–608, inclusive, if the order has not been registered. A petition or comparable pleading for modification may be filed at the same time as a request for registration or later. The pleading must specify the grounds for modification.
MA Gen L ch 6 § 6-610 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part II - Real and Personal Property and Domestic Relations|Title III - Domestic Relations|Chapter 209d - Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|Article 6 - Registration, Enforcement and Modification of Support Order.|Section 6-610 - Effect of Registration for Modification

Section 6–610. Effect of registration for modification. A tribunal of the commonwealth may enforce a child support order of another state registered for purposes of modification, in the same manner as if the order had been issued by a tribunal of the commonwealth, but the registered support order may be modified only if the requirements of section 6–611 or 6–613 have been met.
MA Gen L ch 6 § 6-607 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part II - Real and Personal Property and Domestic Relations|Title III - Domestic Relations|Chapter 209d - Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|Article 6 - Registration, Enforcement and Modification of Support Order.|Section 6-607 - Contest of Registration or Enforcement

Section 6–607. Contest of registration or enforcement.  (a) A party contesting the validity or enforcement of a registered support order or seeking to vacate the registration has the burden of proving 1 or more of the following defenses:  (1) the issuing tribunal lacked personal jurisdiction over the contesting party;  (2) the order was obtained by fraud;  (3) the order has been vacated, suspended or modified by a later order;  (4) the issuing tribunal has stayed the order pending appeal;  (5) there is a defense under the law of the commonwealth to the remedy sought;  (6) full or partial payment has been made;  (7) the statute of limitation under section 6-604 precludes enforcement of some or all of the alleged arrearages; or  (8) the alleged controlling order is not the controlling order.  (b) If a party presents evidence establishing a full or partial defense under subsection (a), a tribunal may stay enforcement of a registered support order, continue the proceeding to permit production of additional relevant evidence and issue other appropriate orders. An uncontested portion of the registered support order may be enforced by all remedies available under the law of the commonwealth.  (c) If the contesting party does not establish a defense under subsection (a) as to the validity or enforcement of a registered support order, the registering tribunal shall issue an order confirming the order.
MA Gen L ch 6 § 6-606 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part II - Real and Personal Property and Domestic Relations|Title III - Domestic Relations|Chapter 209d - Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|Article 6 - Registration, Enforcement and Modification of Support Order.|Section 6-606 - Procedure to Contest Validity or Enforcement of Registered Support Order

Section 6–606. Procedure to contest validity or enforcement of registered support order.  (a) A nonregistering party seeking to contest the validity or enforcement of a registered support order in the commonwealth shall request a hearing within the time required by section 6–605. The nonregistering party may seek to vacate the registration, to assert any defense to an allegation of noncompliance with the registered order or to contest the remedies being sought or the amount of any alleged arrearages pursuant to section 6–607.  (b) If the nonregistering party fails to contest the validity or enforcement of the registered support order in a timely manner, the order is confirmed by operation of law.  (c) If a nonregistering party requests a hearing to contest the validity or enforcement of the registered support order, the registering tribunal shall schedule the matter for hearing and give notice to the parties of the date, time and place of the hearing.
MA Gen L ch 6 § 6-605 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part II - Real and Personal Property and Domestic Relations|Title III - Domestic Relations|Chapter 209d - Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|Article 6 - Registration, Enforcement and Modification of Support Order.|Section 6-605 - Notice of Registration of Order

Section 6–605. Notice of registration of order.  (a) When a support order or income-withholding order issued in another state or a foreign support order is registered, the registering tribunal of the commonwealth shall notify the nonregistering party. The notice must be accompanied by a copy of the registered order and the documents and relevant information accompanying the order.  (b) A notice must inform the nonregistering party:  (1) that a registered support order is enforceable as of the date of registration in the same manner as an order issued by a tribunal of the commonwealth;  (2) that a hearing to contest the validity or enforcement of the registered order must be requested within 20 days after notice unless the registered order is under section 7–707;  (3) that failure to contest the validity or enforcement of the registered order in a timely manner will result in confirmation of the order and enforcement of the order and the alleged arrearages; and  (4) of the amount of any alleged arrearages.  (c) If the registering party asserts that 2 or more orders are in effect, a notice must also:  (1) identify the 2 or more orders and the order alleged by the registering party to be the controlling order and the consolidated arrears, if any;  (2) notify the nonregistering party of the right to a determination of which is the controlling order;  (3) state that the procedures provided in subsection (b) apply to the determination of which is the controlling order; and  (4) state that failure to contest the validity or enforcement of the order alleged to be the controlling order in a timely manner may result in confirmation that the order is the controlling order.  (d) Upon registration of an income-withholding order for enforcement, the support enforcement agency or the registering tribunal shall notify the obligor's employer pursuant to section 12 of chapter 119A.
MA Gen L ch 6 § 6-604 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part II - Real and Personal Property and Domestic Relations|Title III - Domestic Relations|Chapter 209d - Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|Article 6 - Registration, Enforcement and Modification of Support Order.|Section 6-604 - Choice of Law

Section 6–604. Choice of law.  (a) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (d), the law of the issuing state or foreign country governs:  (1) the nature, extent, amount and duration of current payments under a registered support order;  (2) the computation and payment of arrearages and accrual of interest on the arrearages under the support order; and  (3) the existence and satisfaction of other obligations under the support order.  (b) In a proceeding for arrears under a registered support order, the statute of limitation of the commonwealth or of the issuing state or foreign country, whichever is longer, applies.  (c) A responding tribunal of the commonwealth shall apply the procedures and remedies of the commonwealth to enforce current support and collect arrears and interest due on a support order of another state or a foreign country registered in the commonwealth.  (d) After a tribunal of the commonwealth or another state determines which is the controlling order and issues an order consolidating arrears, if any, a tribunal of the commonwealth shall prospectively apply the law of the state or foreign country issuing the controlling order, including its law on interest on arrears, on current and future support and on consolidated arrears.