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AK Stat § 25.25.305 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 25. Marital and Domestic Relations|Chapter 25. Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|Article 3. Civil Provisions of General Application.|Sec. 25.25.305. Duties and powers of responding tribunal.

(a) When a responding tribunal of this state receives a complaint or comparable pleading from an initiating tribunal or directly under AS 25.25.301(c), it shall cause the complaint 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 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 the 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 mailing 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 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 chapter, 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 chapter upon compliance by a party with provisions for visitation. (e) If a responding tribunal of this state issues an order under this chapter, 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.
AK Stat § 25.25.306 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 25. Marital and Domestic Relations|Chapter 25. Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|Article 3. Civil Provisions of General Application.|Sec. 25.25.306. Inappropriate tribunal.

If a complaint or comparable pleading is received by an inappropriate tribunal of this state, the tribunal shall forward the complaint or pleading, and accompanying documents, to an appropriate tribunal in this state or another state and notify the petitioner where and when the complaint or pleading was sent.
AK Stat § 25.25.307 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 25. Marital and Domestic Relations|Chapter 25. Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|Article 3. Civil Provisions of General Application.|Sec. 25.25.307. Duties of child support services agency.

(a) The child support services agency of this state, upon request, shall provide services to a petitioner in a proceeding under this chapter. (b) In providing services under this chapter to the petitioner, the child support services agency of this state shall (1) take all steps necessary to enable an appropriate tribunal of this state, another state, or a foreign country to obtain jurisdiction over the respondent; (2) request an appropriate tribunal to set a date, time, and place for a hearing; (3) make a reasonable effort to obtain all relevant information, including information as to income and property of the parties; (4) send notice in a record from an initiating, responding, or registering tribunal to the petitioner within five days after receipt, exclusive of Saturdays, Sundays, and legal holidays; (5) send a copy of a communication in a record from the respondent or the respondent's attorney to the petitioner within five days after receipt, exclusive of Saturdays, Sundays, and legal holidays; and (6) notify the petitioner if jurisdiction over the respondent cannot be obtained. (c) This chapter does not create or negate a relationship of attorney and client or other fiduciary relationship between the child support services agency or the attorney for the agency and the individual being assisted by the agency. (d) A support enforcement agency of this state that requests registration of a child support order in this state for enforcement or modification shall make reasonable efforts (1) to ensure that the order to be registered is the controlling order; or (2) if two or more child support orders exist and the identity of the controlling order has not been determined, to ensure that a request for the determination is made in a tribunal having jurisdiction to do so. (e) A support enforcement agency of this state that requests registration and enforcement of a support order, arrears, or judgment stated in a foreign currency shall convert the amounts stated in the foreign currency into the equivalent amounts in dollars under the applicable official or market exchange rate as publicly reported. (f) A support enforcement agency of this state shall issue or request a tribunal of this state to issue a child support order and an income withholding order that redirect payment of current support, arrears, and interest if requested to do so by a support enforcement agency of another state under AS 25.25.319.
AK Stat § 25.25.308 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 25. Marital and Domestic Relations|Chapter 25. Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|Article 3. Civil Provisions of General Application.|Sec. 25.25.308. Duty of the Department of Revenue.

(a) If the Department of Revenue determines that the support enforcement agency is neglecting or refusing to provide services to an individual, the Department of Revenue may order the agency to perform its duties under this chapter or may provide those services directly to the individual. (b) The Department of Revenue 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.
AK Stat § 25.25.309 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 25. Marital and Domestic Relations|Chapter 25. Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|Article 3. Civil Provisions of General Application.|Sec. 25.25.309. Private counsel.

An individual may employ private counsel to represent the individual in proceedings authorized by this chapter.
AK Stat § 25.25.310 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 25. Marital and Domestic Relations|Chapter 25. Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|Article 3. Civil Provisions of General Application.|Sec. 25.25.310. Duties of state information and locator agency.

The child support services agency is the state information agency under this chapter, and it shall (1) compile and maintain a current list, including addresses, of the tribunals in this state that have jurisdiction under this chapter and the appropriate agency offices in this state and transmit a copy to the state information agency of every other state; (2) maintain a register of the names and addresses of tribunals and support enforcement agencies received from other states; (3) forward to the appropriate tribunal in this state all documents concerning a proceeding under this chapter 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 that is not exempt from execution by 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.
AK Stat § 25.25.311 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 25. Marital and Domestic Relations|Chapter 25. Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|Article 3. Civil Provisions of General Application.|Sec. 25.25.311. Pleadings and accompanying documents.

(a) In a proceeding under this chapter, 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 shall file a complaint or comparable pleading. Unless otherwise ordered under AS 25.25.312, or otherwise prohibited by law, the complaint or comparable pleading 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 the alleged parent, and the name, sex, residential address, social security number, and date of birth of each child for whose benefit support is sought or whose parentage is to be determined. Unless filed at the time of registration, the complaint or comparable pleading must be accompanied by a copy of any support order known to have been issued by another tribunal. The complaint or comparable pleading may include other information that may assist in locating or identifying the respondent. (b) The complaint or comparable pleading must specify the relief sought. The complaint or comparable pleading 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.
AK Stat § 25.25.312 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 25. Marital and Domestic Relations|Chapter 25. Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|Article 3. Civil Provisions of General Application.|Sec. 25.25.312. Nondisclosure of information in exceptional circumstances.

If a party alleges in an affidavit or a pleading under oath that the health, safety, or liberty of a party or child would be jeopardized by disclosure of specific identifying information, that information must be sealed and may not be disclosed to the other party or the public. After a hearing in which a tribunal takes into consideration the health, safety, or liberty of the party or child, the tribunal may order disclosure of information that the tribunal determines to be in the interest of justice.
AK Stat § 25.25.313 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 25. Marital and Domestic Relations|Chapter 25. Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|Article 3. Civil Provisions of General Application.|Sec. 25.25.313. Costs and fees.

(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, including a rule of the Alaska Supreme Court, at the time a complaint or comparable pleading is filed under this chapter, a tribunal may not require the petitioner 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, including fees that were waived under (a) of this section, reasonable attorney fees, other costs, necessary travel expenses, 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 required by other law or court rule. Attorney 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 assessed under this subsection. (c) The tribunal shall order the payment of costs and reasonable attorney fees, including filing fees that were waived under (a) of this section, by a party who requests a hearing under this chapter if it determines that the hearing was requested primarily for delay. In a proceeding under AS 25.25.601 - 25.25.612, a hearing is presumed to have been requested primarily for delay if a registered support order is confirmed or enforced without change; however, the party who requested the hearing may present evidence to rebut this presumption.
AK Stat § 25.25.314 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 25. Marital and Domestic Relations|Chapter 25. Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|Article 3. Civil Provisions of General Application.|Sec. 25.25.314. Limited immunity of petitioner.

(a) Participation by a petitioner in a proceeding under this chapter before a responding tribunal, whether in person, by private attorney, or through services provided by the support enforcement agency, does not confer personal jurisdiction over the 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 chapter. (c) The immunity granted by this section does not extend to civil litigation based on acts unrelated to a proceeding under this chapter committed by a party while present in this state to participate in the proceeding.
AK Stat § 25.25.315 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 25. Marital and Domestic Relations|Chapter 25. Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|Article 3. Civil Provisions of General Application.|Sec. 25.25.315. Nonparentage as defense.

A party whose parentage of a child has been previously determined under law may not plead nonparentage as a defense to a proceeding under this chapter.
AK Stat § 25.25.316 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 25. Marital and Domestic Relations|Chapter 25. Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|Article 3. Civil Provisions of General Application.|Sec. 25.25.316. 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 or other proceeding, 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, facsimile, 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.
AK Stat § 25.25.317 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 25. Marital and Domestic Relations|Chapter 25. Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|Article 3. Civil Provisions of General Application.|Sec. 25.25.317. Communications between tribunals.

A tribunal of this state may communicate with a tribunal outside this state in a record, or by telephone, electronic mail, or other means, to obtain information concerning the laws, the legal effect of a judgment, decree, or order of that tribunal, and the status of a proceeding. A tribunal of this state may furnish similar information by similar means to a tribunal outside this state.
AK Stat § 25.25.318 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 25. Marital and Domestic Relations|Chapter 25. Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|Article 3. Civil Provisions of General Application.|Sec. 25.25.318. 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.
AK Stat § 25.25.319 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 25. Marital and Domestic Relations|Chapter 25. Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|Article 3. Civil Provisions of General Application.|Sec. 25.25.319. Receipt and disbursement of payments.

(a) The child support services agency of this state shall disburse promptly any amounts received under a support order, as directed by the order. The agency 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 of 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 under a law similar to (b) of this section 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.
AK Stat § 25.25.401 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 25. Marital and Domestic Relations|Chapter 25. Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|Article 4. Establishment of Support Order or Determination of Parentage.|Sec. 25.25.401. 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 an order is appropriate and the individual ordered to pay is (1) a presumed father of the child; (2) petitioning to have the individual's 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 under AS 25.20.050; (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) [Repealed, § 32 ch 102 SLA 2015.]  (d) If, after providing an obligor with notice and opportunity to be heard, an appropriate tribunal finds that the obligor owes a duty of support, the tribunal shall issue a support order directed to the obligor and may issue other orders under AS 25.25.305. (e) Before issuing an order under (b) of this section, the child support services agency shall adopt regulations for issuing such an order.
AK Stat § 25.25.402 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 25. Marital and Domestic Relations|Chapter 25. Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|Article 4. Establishment of Support Order or Determination of Parentage.|Sec. 25.25.402. Proceeding to determine parentage.

A tribunal of this state authorized to determine parentage of a child may serve as a responding tribunal in a proceeding to determine parentage of a child brought under this chapter or a law or procedure substantially similar to this chapter.
AK Stat § 25.25.501 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 25. Marital and Domestic Relations|Chapter 25. Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|Article 5. Enforcement of Support Order Without Registration.|Sec. 25.25.501. Employer's receipt of income withholding order of another state.

An income withholding order issued in another state may be sent by or on behalf of the obligee, or by the support enforcement agency, to the person defined as the obligor's employer under AS 25.27 without first filing a complaint or comparable pleading or registering the order with a tribunal of this state.
AK Stat § 25.25.502 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 25. Marital and Domestic Relations|Chapter 25. Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|Article 5. Enforcement of Support Order Without Registration.|Sec. 25.25.502. Employer's compliance with income withholding order of another state.

(a) Upon receipt of an order under AS 25.25.501, 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 that appears regular on its face as if it were issued by a tribunal of this state. (c) Except as provided by (d) of this section and AS 25.25.503, the employer shall withhold and distribute the funds as directed in the withholding order by complying with the terms of the order, as applicable, that specify (1) the duration and the 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 an order to 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) The 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 time periods within which the employer must implement the withholding order and forward the child support payment.
AK Stat § 25.25.503 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 25. Marital and Domestic Relations|Chapter 25. Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|Article 5. Enforcement of Support Order Without Registration.|Sec. 25.25.503. Employer's compliance with two or more income withholding orders.

If an obligor's employer receives two or more orders to withhold support from the earnings of the same obligor, the employer shall be considered to have satisfied 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.