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AK Stat § 25.25.704 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 25. Marital and Domestic Relations|Chapter 25. Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|Article 7. Support Proceedings under Convention.|Sec. 25.25.704. Relationship of child support services agency to United States central authority.

The child support services agency of this state is recognized as the agency designated by the United States central authority to perform specific functions under the convention.
AK Stat § 25.25.705 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 25. Marital and Domestic Relations|Chapter 25. Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|Article 7. Support Proceedings under Convention.|Sec. 25.25.705. Initiation by child support services agency of support proceeding under convention.

(a) In a support proceeding under AS 25.25.702 - 25.25.714, the child support services agency 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 not an 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 AS 25.25.709(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 whom 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.
AK Stat § 25.25.706 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 25. Marital and Domestic Relations|Chapter 25. Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|Article 7. Support Proceedings under Convention.|Sec. 25.25.706. Direct request.

(a) An individual 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) An individual may file a direct request seeking recognition and enforcement of a support order or support agreement. In the proceeding, AS 25.25.707 - 25.25.714 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 who has benefited from free legal assistance in the issuing country 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) An individual filing a direct request is not entitled to assistance from the child support services agency. (e) AS 25.25.702 - 25.25.714 do 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.
AK Stat § 25.25.707 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 25. Marital and Domestic Relations|Chapter 25. Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|Article 7. Support Proceedings under Convention.|Sec. 25.25.707. Registration of convention support order.

(a) Except as otherwise provided in AS 25.25.702 - 25.25.714, 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 AS 25.25.601 - 25.25.616. (b) Notwithstanding AS 25.25.311 and 25.25.602(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 AS 25.25.708 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.
AK Stat § 25.25.708 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 25. Marital and Domestic Relations|Chapter 25. Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|Article 7. Support Proceedings under Convention.|Sec. 25.25.708. Contest of registered convention support order.

(a) Except as otherwise provided in AS 25.25.702 - 25.25.714, AS 25.25.605 - 25.25.608 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 (b) of this section, the order is enforceable. (d) A contest of a registered convention support order may be based only on grounds set out in AS 25.25.709. 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.
AK Stat § 25.25.709 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 25. Marital and Domestic Relations|Chapter 25. Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|Article 7. Support Proceedings under Convention.|Sec. 25.25.709. Recognition and enforcement of registered convention support order.

(a) Except as otherwise provided in (b) of this section, a tribunal of this state shall recognize and enforce a registered convention support order. (b) The following grounds are the only grounds on which a tribunal of this state may refuse recognition and enforcement of a registered convention support order: (1) recognition and enforcement of the order is manifestly incompatible with public policy, including the failure of the issuing tribunal to observe minimum standards of due process, which include notice and an opportunity to be heard; (2) the issuing tribunal lacked personal jurisdiction consistent with AS 25.25.201; (3) the order is not enforceable in the issuing country; (4) the order was obtained by fraud in connection with a matter of procedure; (5) a record transmitted in accordance with AS 25.25.707 lacks authenticity or integrity; (6) a proceeding between the same parties and having the same purpose is pending before a tribunal of this state and that proceeding was the first to be filed; (7) the order is incompatible with a more recent support order involving the same parties and having the same purpose if the more recent support order is entitled to recognition and enforcement under this chapter in this state; (8) payment, to the extent alleged arrears have been paid, in whole or in part; (9) in a case in which the respondent neither appeared nor was represented in the proceeding in the issuing foreign country, (A) if the law of that country provides for prior notice of proceedings, the respondent did not have proper notice of the proceedings and an opportunity to be heard; or (B) if the law of that country does not provide for prior notice of the proceedings, the respondent did not have proper notice of the order and an opportunity to be heard in a challenge or appeal on fact or law before a tribunal; or (10) the order was made in violation of AS 25.25.712. (c) If a tribunal of this state does not recognize a convention support order under (b)(2), (4), or (9) of this section, (1) the tribunal may not dismiss the proceeding without allowing a reasonable time for a party to request the establishment of a new convention support order; and (2) the child support services agency shall take all appropriate measures to request a child support order for the obligee if the application for recognition and enforcement was received under AS 25.25.705.
AK Stat § 25.25.710 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 25. Marital and Domestic Relations|Chapter 25. Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|Article 7. Support Proceedings under Convention.|Sec. 25.25.710. Partial enforcement.

If a tribunal of this state does not recognize and enforce a convention support order in its entirety, it shall enforce any severable part of the order. An application or direct request may seek recognition and partial enforcement of a convention support order.
AK Stat § 25.25.711 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 25. Marital and Domestic Relations|Chapter 25. Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|Article 7. Support Proceedings under Convention.|Sec. 25.25.711. Foreign support agreement.

(a) Except as otherwise provided in (c) and (d) of this section, a tribunal of this state shall recognize and enforce a foreign support agreement registered in this state. (b) An application or direct request for recognition and enforcement of a foreign support agreement must be accompanied by (1) a complete text of the foreign support agreement; and (2) a record stating that the foreign support agreement is enforceable as an order of support in the issuing country. (c) A tribunal of this state may vacate the registration of a foreign support agreement only if, acting on its own motion, the tribunal finds that recognition and enforcement would be manifestly incompatible with public policy. (d) In a contest of a foreign support agreement, a tribunal of this state may refuse recognition and enforcement of the agreement if it finds (1) recognition and enforcement of the agreement is manifestly incompatible with public policy; (2) the agreement was obtained by fraud or falsification; (3) the agreement is incompatible with a support order involving the same parties and having the same purpose in this state, another state, or a foreign country if the support order is entitled to recognition and enforcement under this chapter in this state; or (4) the record submitted under (b) of this section lacks authenticity or integrity. (e) A proceeding for recognition and enforcement of a foreign support agreement must be suspended during the pendency of a challenge to or appeal of the agreement before a tribunal of another state or a foreign country.
AK Stat § 25.25.712 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 25. Marital and Domestic Relations|Chapter 25. Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|Article 7. Support Proceedings under Convention.|Sec. 25.25.712. Modification of convention child support order.

(a) A tribunal of this state may not modify a convention child support order if the obligee remains a resident of the foreign country where the support order was issued unless (1) the obligee submits to the jurisdiction of a tribunal of this state, either expressly or by defending on the merits of the case, without objecting to the jurisdiction at the first available opportunity; or (2) the foreign tribunal lacks or refuses to exercise jurisdiction to modify its support order or issue a new support order. (b) If a tribunal of this state does not modify a convention child support order because the order is not recognized in this state, AS 25.25.709(c) applies.
AK Stat § 25.25.713 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 25. Marital and Domestic Relations|Chapter 25. Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|Article 7. Support Proceedings under Convention.|Sec. 25.25.713. Personal information; limit on use.

Personal information gathered or transmitted under AS 25.25.702 - 25.25.714 may be used only for the purposes for which it was gathered or transmitted.
AK Stat § 25.25.714 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 25. Marital and Domestic Relations|Chapter 25. Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|Article 7. Support Proceedings under Convention.|Sec. 25.25.714. Record original language; English translation.

A record filed with a tribunal of this state under AS 25.25.702 - 25.25.714 must be in the original language and, if not in English, must be accompanied by an English translation.
AK Stat § 25.25.801 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 25. Marital and Domestic Relations|Chapter 25. Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|Article 8. Interstate Rendition.|Sec. 25.25.801. Grounds for rendition.

(a) The governor or a designee of the governor may (1) demand that the governor of another state surrender an individual found in the other state who is charged criminally in this state with having failed to provide for the support of an obligee; or (2) on the demand of the governor of another state, surrender an individual found in this state who is charged criminally in the other state with having failed to provide for the support of an obligee. (b) A provision for extradition of individuals not inconsistent with this chapter applies to the demand even if the individual whose surrender is demanded was not in the demanding state when the crime was allegedly committed and has not fled from that state.
AK Stat § 25.25.802 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 25. Marital and Domestic Relations|Chapter 25. Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|Article 8. Interstate Rendition.|Sec. 25.25.802. Conditions of rendition.

(a) Before making a demand that the governor of another state surrender an individual charged criminally in this state with having failed to provide for the support of an obligee, the governor of this state or the designee of the governor may require a prosecutor of this state to demonstrate that the obligee had initiated proceedings for support under this chapter at least 60 days previously or that the proceeding would be of no avail. (b) If, under this chapter or a law substantially similar to this chapter, or the former provisions of this chapter, the governor of another state makes a demand that the governor of this state surrender an individual charged criminally in that state with having failed to provide for the support of a child or other individual to whom a duty of support is owed, the governor or a designee of the governor may require a prosecutor to investigate the demand and report whether a proceeding for support has been initiated or would be effective. If it appears that a proceeding would be effective but has not been initiated, the governor or designee may delay honoring the demand for a reasonable time to permit the initiation of a proceeding. (c) If a proceeding for support has been initiated and the individual whose rendition is demanded prevails, the governor or the designee of the governor may decline to honor the demand. If the petitioner prevails and the individual whose rendition is demanded is subject to a support order, the governor or designee may decline to honor the demand if the individual is complying with the support order.
AK Stat § 25.25.901 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 25. Marital and Domestic Relations|Chapter 25. Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|Article 9. Miscellaneous Provisions.|Sec. 25.25.901. Uniformity of application and construction.

In applying and construing this chapter, consideration must be given to the need to promote uniformity of the law with respect to its subject matter among states that enact it.
AK Stat § 25.25.902 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 25. Marital and Domestic Relations|Chapter 25. Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|Article 9. Miscellaneous Provisions.|Sec. 25.25.902. Severability.

Under AS 01.10.030, if a provision of this chapter or its application to a person or circumstance is held invalid, the invalidity does not affect other provisions or applications of this chapter that can be given effect without the invalid provision or application.
AK Stat § 25.25.903 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 25. Marital and Domestic Relations|Chapter 25. Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|Article 9. Miscellaneous Provisions.|Sec. 25.25.903. Short title.

This chapter may be cited as the Uniform Interstate Family Support Act.
AK Stat § 25.30.300 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 25. Marital and Domestic Relations|Chapter 30. Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction and Enforcement Act|Article 1. Jurisdiction.|Sec. 25.30.300. Initial child custody jurisdiction.

(a) Except as otherwise provided in AS 25.30.330, a court of this state has jurisdiction to make an initial child custody determination only if (1) this state is the home state of the child on the date of the commencement of the proceeding; (2) this state was the home state of the child within six months before the commencement of the proceeding and the child is absent from this state but a parent or person acting as a parent continues to live in this state; (3) a court of another state does not have jurisdiction under provisions substantially similar to (1) or (2) of this subsection, or a court of the home state of the child has declined to exercise jurisdiction on the ground that this state is the more appropriate forum under provisions substantially similar to AS 25.30.360 or 25.30.370, and (A) the child and the child's parents, or the child and at least one parent or a person acting as a parent, have a significant connection with this state other than mere physical presence; and (B) substantial evidence is available in this state concerning the child's care, protection, training, and personal relationships; (4) all courts having jurisdiction under the criteria specified in (1) - (3) of this subsection have declined to exercise jurisdiction on the ground that a court of this state is the more appropriate forum to determine the custody of the child under provisions substantially similar to AS 25.30.360 or 25.30.370; or (5) no court of another state would have jurisdiction under the criteria specified in (1) - (4) of this subsection. (b) The provisions of (a) of this section are the exclusive jurisdictional bases for making a child custody determination by a court of this state. (c) Physical presence of or personal jurisdiction over a party or a child is not necessary or sufficient to make a child custody determination.
AK Stat § 25.30.310 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 25. Marital and Domestic Relations|Chapter 30. Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction and Enforcement Act|Article 1. Jurisdiction.|Sec. 25.30.310. Exclusive, continuing jurisdiction.

(a) Except as otherwise provided in AS 25.30.330, a court of this state that has made a child custody determination consistent with AS 25.30.300 or 25.30.320 has exclusive, continuing jurisdiction over the determination until (1) a court of this state determines that neither the child, the child and one parent, nor the child and a person acting as a parent have a significant connection with this state and that substantial evidence is no longer available in this state concerning the child's care, protection, training, and personal relationships; or (2) a court of this state or a court of another state determines that neither the child, nor a parent, nor a person acting as a parent presently resides in this state. (b) A court of this state that has made a child custody determination and does not have exclusive, continuing jurisdiction under this section may modify that determination only if it has jurisdiction to make an initial determination under AS 25.30.300.
AK Stat § 25.30.320 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 25. Marital and Domestic Relations|Chapter 30. Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction and Enforcement Act|Article 1. Jurisdiction.|Sec. 25.30.320. Jurisdiction to modify determination.

Except as otherwise provided in AS 25.30.330, a court of this state may not modify a child custody determination made by a court of another state unless a court of this state has jurisdiction to make an initial determination under AS 25.30.300(a)(1), (2), or (3) and (1) the court of the other state determines it no longer has exclusive, continuing jurisdiction under provisions substantially similar to AS 25.30.310 or that a court of this state would be a more convenient forum under provisions substantially similar to AS 25.30.360; or (2) a court of this state or a court of the other state determines that neither the child, nor a parent, nor a person acting as a parent presently resides in the other state.