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SC Code § 63-17-3250 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 63 - South Carolina Children's Code|Chapter 17 - Paternity And Child Support|Section 63-17-3250. Responding tribunal powers and duties.

 (A) When a responding tribunal of this State receives a petition or comparable pleading from an initiating tribunal or directly pursuant to Section 63-17-3210(B), it shall cause the petition or pleading to be filed and notify the petitioner where and when it was filed.  (B) A responding tribunal of this State, to the extent not prohibited by other law, may do one or more of the following:  (1) establish or enforce a support order, modify a child-support order, determine the controlling child-support order, or determine parentage of a child;  (2) order an obligor to comply with a support order, specifying the amount and the manner of compliance;  (3) order income withholding;  (4) determine the amount of any arrearages, and specify a method of payment;  (5) enforce orders by civil or criminal contempt, or both;  (6) set aside property for satisfaction of the support order;  (7) place liens and order execution on the obligor's property;  (8) order an obligor to keep the tribunal informed of the obligor's current residential address, electronic mail address, telephone number, employer, address of employment, and telephone number at the place of employment;  (9) issue a bench warrant for an obligor who has failed after proper notice to appear at a hearing ordered by the tribunal and enter the bench warrant in any local and state computer systems for criminal warrants;  (10) order the obligor to seek appropriate employment by specified methods;  (11) award reasonable attorney's fees and other fees and costs; and  (12) grant any other available remedy.  (C) A responding tribunal of this State shall include in a support order issued under this article, or in the documents accompanying the order, the calculations on which the support order is based.  (D) A responding tribunal of this State may not condition the payment of a support order issued under this article upon compliance by a party with provisions for visitation.  (E) If a responding tribunal of this State issues an order under this article, the tribunal shall send a copy of the order to the petitioner and the respondent and to the initiating tribunal, if any.  (F) If requested to enforce a support order, arrears, or judgment or modify a support order stated in a foreign currency, a responding tribunal of this State shall convert the amount stated in the foreign currency to the equivalent amount in dollars under the applicable official or market exchange rate as publicly reported.  HISTORY: 2008 Act No. 361, Section 2; 2015 Act No. 33 (S.500), Section 1, eff June 1, 2015.  Effect of Amendment  2015 Act No. 33, Section 1, in (B)(1), substituted "establish or enforce" or "issue or enforce" and substituted "determine parentage of a child" for "to determine parentage"; and in (B)(8), inserted "electronic mail address,".
SC Code § 63-17-3260 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 63 - South Carolina Children's Code|Chapter 17 - Paternity And Child Support|Section 63-17-3260. Inappropriate tribunal to forward petition.

 If a petition or comparable pleading is received by an inappropriate tribunal of this State, the tribunal shall forward the pleading and accompanying documents to an appropriate tribunal of this State or another state and notify the petitioner where and when the pleading was sent.  HISTORY: 2008 Act No. 361, Section 2; 2015 Act No. 33 (S.500), Section 1, eff June 1, 2015.  Effect of Amendment  2015 Act No. 33, Section 1, substituted "of this State or another state" for "in this State or another state".
SC Code § 63-17-3280 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 63 - South Carolina Children's Code|Chapter 17 - Paternity And Child Support|Section 63-17-3280. Duty to provide services.

 (A) If the Attorney General determines that the support enforcement agency is neglecting or refusing to provide services to an individual, the Attorney General may order the agency to perform its duties under this article or may provide those services directly to the individual.  (B) The Department of Social 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.  HISTORY: 2008 Act No. 361, Section 2; 2015 Act No. 33 (S.500), Section 1, eff June 1, 2015.  Effect of Amendment  2015 Act No. 33, Section 1, in (B), deleted "or political subdivision" before "has established".
SC Code § 63-17-3290 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 63 - South Carolina Children's Code|Chapter 17 - Paternity And Child Support|Section 63-17-3290. Private counsel.

 An individual may employ private counsel to represent the individual in proceedings authorized by this article.  HISTORY: 2008 Act No. 361, Section 2; 2015 Act No. 33 (S.500), Section 1, eff June 1, 2015.  Effect of Amendment  2015 Act No. 33, Section 1, reenacted this section with no change.
SC Code § 63-17-3300 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 63 - South Carolina Children's Code|Chapter 17 - Paternity And Child Support|Section 63-17-3300. Department of Social Services as state information agency.

 (A) The Department of Social Services is the state information agency under this article.  (B) The state information agency shall:  (1) compile and maintain a current list, including addresses, of the tribunals in this State which have jurisdiction under this article and any support enforcement agencies in this State and transmit a copy to the state information agency of every other state;  (2) maintain a register of names and addresses of tribunals and support enforcement agencies received from other states;  (3) forward to the appropriate tribunal in the 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 article received from another state or a foreign country; and  (4) 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.  HISTORY: 2008 Act No. 361, Section 2; 2015 Act No. 33 (S.500), Section 1, eff June 1, 2015.  Effect of Amendment  2015 Act No. 33, Section 1, in (B)(3), substituted "received from another state or a foreign country" for "received from an initiating tribunal or the state information agency of the initiating state".
SC Code § 63-17-3310 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 63 - South Carolina Children's Code|Chapter 17 - Paternity And Child Support|Section 63-17-3310. Petition contents.

 (A) In a proceeding under this article, 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 Section 63-17-3320, the petition or accompanying documents must provide, so far as known, the name, residential address, and social security numbers of the obligor and the obligee or the parent and alleged parent, and the name, sex, residential address, social security number, and date of birth of each child for whose benefit support is sought or whose parentage is to be determined. Unless filed at the time of registration, the petition must be accompanied by a copy of any support order known to have been issued by another tribunal. The petition may include any other information that may assist in locating or identifying the respondent.  (B) The petition must specify the relief sought. The petition and accompanying documents must conform substantially with the requirements imposed by the forms mandated by federal law for use in cases filed by a support enforcement agency.  HISTORY: 2008 Act No. 361, Section 2; 2015 Act No. 33 (S.500), Section 1, eff June 1, 2015.  Effect of Amendment  2015 Act No. 33, Section 1, in (A), inserted "of a child" following "to determine parentage", and substituted "a tribunal of another state or a foreign country" for "another state".
SC Code § 63-17-3320 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 63 - South Carolina Children's Code|Chapter 17 - Paternity And Child Support|Section 63-17-3320. Sealing petition.

 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.  HISTORY: 2008 Act No. 361, Section 2; 2015 Act No. 33 (S.500), Section 1, eff June 1, 2015.  Effect of Amendment  2015 Act No. 33, Section 1, reenacted this section with no change.
SC Code § 63-17-3330 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 63 - South Carolina Children's Code|Chapter 17 - Paternity And Child Support|Section 63-17-3330. Fees and costs.

 (A) The petitioner may not be required to pay a filing fee or other costs.  (B) 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 the responding state or foreign country, except as provided by other law. Attorney's fees may be taxed as costs, and may be ordered paid directly to the attorney, who may enforce the order in the attorney's own name. Payment of support owed to the obligee has priority over fees, costs, and expenses.  (C) The tribunal shall order the payment of costs and reasonable attorney's fees if it determines that a hearing was requested primarily for delay. In a proceeding under Part VI, a hearing is presumed to have been requested primarily for delay if a registered support order is confirmed or enforced without change.  HISTORY: 2008 Act No. 361, Section 2; 2015 Act No. 33 (S.500), Section 1, eff June 1, 2015.  Effect of Amendment  2015 Act No. 33, Section 1, in (B), inserted "of this State" following "a responding tribunal", and inserted "or foreign country" following "responding state".
SC Code § 63-17-3340 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 63 - South Carolina Children's Code|Chapter 17 - Paternity And Child Support|Section 63-17-3340. Immunity of petitioner.

 (A) Participation by a petitioner in a proceeding under this article before a responding tribunal, whether in person, by private attorney, or through services provided by the support enforcement agency, does not confer personal jurisdiction over the petitioner in another proceeding.  (B) A petitioner is not amenable to service of civil process while physically present in this State to participate in a proceeding under this article.  (C) The immunity granted by this section does not extend to civil litigation based on acts unrelated to a proceeding under this article committed by a party while physically present in this State to participate in the proceeding.  HISTORY: 2008 Act No. 361, Section 2; 2015 Act No. 33 (S.500), Section 1, eff June 1, 2015.  Effect of Amendment  2015 Act No. 33, Section 1, reenacted this section with no change.
SC Code § 63-17-3350 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 63 - South Carolina Children's Code|Chapter 17 - Paternity And Child Support|Section 63-17-3350. Nonparentage 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 article.  HISTORY: 2008 Act No. 361, Section 2; 2015 Act No. 33 (S.500), Section 1, eff June 1, 2015.  Effect of Amendment  2015 Act No. 33, Section 1, reenacted this section with no change.
SC Code § 63-17-3370 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 63 - South Carolina Children's Code|Chapter 17 - Paternity And Child Support|Section 63-17-3370. Communication with other 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: 2008 Act No. 361, Section 2; 2015 Act No. 33 (S.500), Section 1, eff June 1, 2015.  Effect of Amendment  2015 Act No. 33, Section 1, rewrote the section.
SC Code § 63-17-3380 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 63 - South Carolina Children's Code|Chapter 17 - Paternity And Child Support|Section 63-17-3380. Discovery powers of tribunal.

 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.  HISTORY: 2008 Act No. 361, Section 2; 2015 Act No. 33 (S.500), Section 1, eff June 1, 2015.  Effect of Amendment  2015 Act No. 33, Section 1, in (1) and (2), substituted "outside this State" for "of another state"; and in (2), substituted "which" for "whom".
SC Code § 63-17-3390 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 63 - South Carolina Children's Code|Chapter 17 - Paternity And Child Support|Section 63-17-3390. 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 Department of Social Services 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.  HISTORY: 2008 Act No. 361, Section 2; 2015 Act No. 33 (S.500), Section 1, eff June 1, 2015.  Effect of Amendment  2015 Act No. 33, Section 1, in (A), inserted "or a foreign country".  PART IV ESTABLISHMENT OF SUPPORT ORDER OR DETERMINATION OF PARENTAGE  DERIVATION TABLE  Showing the section in former Chapter 7, Title 20 from which the section in this part was derived.  New  Section Former  Section 63-17-3410 20-7-1120
SC Code § 63-17-3410 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 63 - South Carolina Children's Code|Chapter 17 - Paternity And Child Support|Section 63-17-3410. Issuance of order.

 (A) If a support order entitled to recognition under this article 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 law;  (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 Section 63-17-3250.  HISTORY: 2008 Act No. 361, Section 2; 2015 Act No. 33 (S.500), Section 1, eff June 1, 2015.  Effect of Amendment  2015 Act No. 33, Section 1, in (A), inserted "with personal jurisdiction over the parties"; and in (A)(1) and (A)(2), substituted "outside this State" for "in another state".
SC Code § 63-17-3420 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 63 - South Carolina Children's Code|Chapter 17 - Paternity And Child Support|Section 63-17-3420. 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 article or a law or procedure substantially similar to this article.  HISTORY: 2015 Act No. 33 (S.500), Section 1, eff June 1, 2015.  PART V ENFORCEMENT OF SUPPORT ORDER WITHOUT REGISTRATION  DERIVATION TABLE  Showing the sections in former Chapter 7, Title 20 from which the sections in this part were derived.  New  Section Former  Section 63-17-3510 20-7-1124 63-17-3520 20-7-1125 63-17-3530 20-7-1126 63-17-3540 20-7-1127 63-17-3550 20-7-1128 63-17-3560 20-7-1129 63-17-3570 20-7-1130
SC Code § 63-17-3510 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 63 - South Carolina Children's Code|Chapter 17 - Paternity And Child Support|Section 63-17-3510. Mailing order to employer.

 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 Articles 11, 13, and 15 without first filing a petition or comparable pleading or registering the order with a tribunal of this State.  HISTORY: 2008 Act No. 361, Section 2; 2015 Act No. 33 (S.500), Section 1, eff June 1, 2015.  Effect of Amendment  2015 Act No. 33, Section 1, reenacted this section with no change.
SC Code § 63-17-3520 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 63 - South Carolina Children's Code|Chapter 17 - Paternity And Child Support|Section 63-17-3520. Employer duties.

 (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 Section 63-17-3530, 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.  HISTORY: 2008 Act No. 361, Section 2; 2015 Act No. 33 (S.500), Section 1, eff June 1, 2015.  Effect of Amendment  2015 Act No. 33, Section 1, in (C)(1), substituted "child support" for "child-support".
SC Code § 63-17-3530 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 63 - South Carolina Children's Code|Chapter 17 - Paternity And Child Support|Section 63-17-3530. Multiple 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.  HISTORY: 2008 Act No. 361, Section 2; 2015 Act No. 33 (S.500), Section 1, eff June 1, 2015.  Effect of Amendment  2015 Act No. 33, Section 1, reenacted this section with no change.
SC Code § 63-17-3540 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 63 - South Carolina Children's Code|Chapter 17 - Paternity And Child Support|Section 63-17-3540. Immunity.

 An employer that complies with an income-withholding order issued in another state in accordance with this part 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.  HISTORY: 2008 Act No. 361, Section 2; 2015 Act No. 33 (S.500), Section 1, eff June 1, 2015.  Effect of Amendment  2015 Act No. 33, Section 1, substituted "employer that complies" for "employer who complies".
SC Code § 63-17-3550 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 63 - South Carolina Children's Code|Chapter 17 - Paternity And Child Support|Section 63-17-3550. Failure to comply.

 An employer that wilfully 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.  HISTORY: 2008 Act No. 361, Section 2; 2015 Act No. 33 (S.500), Section 1, eff June 1, 2015.  Effect of Amendment  2015 Act No. 33, Section 1, substituted "employer that wilfully" for "employer who wilfully", and substituted "issued in another" for "issued by another".