reglab/statecodes huggingface dataset:
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 31 | Domestic Relations-Children › Chapter 3113 | Neglect, Abandonment, or Domestic Violence › Section 3113.456 | Assumption of Financial Responsibility.

Effective:
September 8, 2016
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 359 - 131st General Assembly
Upon transfer of the wireless service number to the petitioner, the petitioner shall assume all financial responsibility for any costs associated with the wireless service number and any costs for the device associated with the wireless service number.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 31 | Domestic Relations-Children › Chapter 3113 | Neglect, Abandonment, or Domestic Violence › Section 3113.457 | Requirements for Account Establishment.

Effective:
September 8, 2016
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 359 - 131st General Assembly
Nothing in sections 3113.45 to 3113.459 of the Revised Code shall preclude a wireless service provider or reseller from applying to the petitioner any routine and customary requirements for account establishment as part of the transfer, including identification, financial information, and customer preferences.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 31 | Domestic Relations-Children › Chapter 3113 | Neglect, Abandonment, or Domestic Violence › Section 3113.458 | Apportionment of Assets or Debts.

Effective:
September 8, 2016
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 359 - 131st General Assembly
Nothing in sections 3113.45 to 3113.459 of the Revised Code shall affect the ability of the court to apportion the assets or debts of the parties as provided for in the Revised Code, or the ability to determine temporary use, possession, and control of personal property pursuant to division (E)(1)(h) of section 3113.31 of the Revised Code.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 31 | Domestic Relations-Children › Chapter 3113 | Neglect, Abandonment, or Domestic Violence › Section 3113.459 | Liability.

Effective:
September 8, 2016
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 359 - 131st General Assembly
No cause of action shall arise against the wireless service provider or reseller, its officers, employees, or agents, for any action taken in accordance with sections 3113.45 to 3113.459 of the Revised Code or with the terms of a court order issued in compliance with section 3113.451 of the Revised Code.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 31 | Domestic Relations-Children › Chapter 3113 | Neglect, Abandonment, or Domestic Violence › Section 3113.99 | Penalty.

Effective:
March 22, 2001
Latest Legislation:
Senate Bill 180 - 123rd General Assembly
Whoever violates section 3113.06 of the Revised Code is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree. If the offender previously has been convicted of or pleaded guilty to a violation of section 3113.06 of the Revised Code or if the court finds that the offender has failed to pay the cost of child maintenance under section 3113.06 of the Revised Code for a total accumulated period of twenty-six weeks out of one hundred four consecutive weeks, whether or not the twenty-six weeks were consecutive, a violation of section 3113.06 of the Revised Code is a felony of the fifth degree.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 31 | Domestic Relations-Children › Chapter 3115 | Uniform Interstate Family Support Act of 2008 › Section 3115.101 | Short Title.

Effective:
January 1, 2016
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 64 - 131st General Assembly
This chapter may be cited as the "Uniform Interstate Family Support Act of 2008." This chapter uses the numbering system of the national conference of commissioners on uniform state laws. The digits to the right of the decimal point are sequential and not supplemental to any preceding Revised Code section.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 31 | Domestic Relations-Children › Chapter 3115 | Uniform Interstate Family Support Act of 2008 › Section 3115.103 | State Tribunal and Support Enforcement Agencies.

Effective:
January 1, 2016
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 64 - 131st General Assembly
(A) For purposes of carrying out the duties and responsibilities under this chapter, the juvenile court or the division of the court of common pleas that has jurisdiction over disputes arising under this chapter is the tribunal of this state and for the purposes of initiating a petition an agency designated under section 3125.10 of the Revised Code is also a tribunal of this state.
(B) The agencies designated under section 3125.10 of the Revised Code are the support enforcement agencies of this state.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 31 | Domestic Relations-Children › Chapter 3115 | Uniform Interstate Family Support Act of 2008 › Section 3115.104 | Remedies Cumulative.

Effective:
January 1, 2016
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 64 - 131st General Assembly
(A) Remedies provided by this chapter are cumulative and do not affect the availability of remedies under other law or the recognition of a foreign support order on the basis of comity.
(B) This chapter does not do either of the following:
(1) Provide the exclusive method of establishing or enforcing a support order under the law of this state;
(2) Grant a tribunal of this state jurisdiction to render judgment or issue an order relating to child custody or visitation in a proceeding under this chapter.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 31 | Domestic Relations-Children › Chapter 3115 | Uniform Interstate Family Support Act of 2008 › Section 3115.105 | Application to Resident of Foreign Country and Foreign Support Proceeding.

Effective:
January 1, 2016
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 64 - 131st General Assembly
(A) A tribunal of this state shall apply sections 3115.102 to 3115.616 of the Revised Code and, as applicable, sections 3115.701 to 3115.713 of the Revised Code, to a support proceeding involving any of the following:
(1) A foreign support order;
(2) A foreign tribunal;
(3) An obligee, obligor, or child residing in a foreign country.
(B) A tribunal of this state that is requested to recognize and enforce a support order on the basis of comity may apply the procedural and substantive provisions of sections 3115.102 to 3115.616 of the Revised Code.
(C) Sections 3115.701 to 3115.713 of the Revised Code apply only to a support proceeding under the convention. In such a proceeding, if a provision of sections 3115.701 to 3115.713 of the Revised Code is inconsistent with sections 3115.102 to 3115.616 of the Revised Code, sections 3115.701 to 3115.713 of the Revised Code control.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 31 | Domestic Relations-Children › Chapter 3115 | Uniform Interstate Family Support Act of 2008 › Section 3115.201 | Bases for Jurisdiction Over Nonresident.

Effective:
January 1, 2016
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 64 - 131st General Assembly
(A) In a proceeding to establish or enforce a support order or to determine parentage of a child, a tribunal or support enforcement agency of this state may exercise personal jurisdiction over a nonresident individual if any of the following apply:
(1) The individual is personally served with summons within this state.
(2) The individual submits to the jurisdiction of this state by consent in a record, by entering a general appearance, or by filing a responsive document having the effect of waiving any contest to personal jurisdiction.
(3) The individual resided with the child in this state.
(4) The individual resided in this state and provided prenatal expenses or support for the child.
(5) The child resides in this state as a result of the acts or directives of the individual.
(6) The individual engaged in sexual intercourse in this state and the child may have been conceived by that act of intercourse.
(7) The individual asserted parentage of a child in the putative father registry maintained in this state by the department of job and family services.
(8) There is any other basis consistent with the Constitutions of this state and the United States for the exercise of personal jurisdiction.
(B) The bases of personal jurisdiction set forth in division (A) of this section or in any other law of this state may not be used to acquire personal jurisdiction for a tribunal of this state to modify a child-support order of another state unless the requirements of section 3115.611 of the Revised Code are met or, in the case of a foreign support order, unless the requirements of section 3115.615 of the Revised Code are met.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 31 | Domestic Relations-Children › Chapter 3115 | Uniform Interstate Family Support Act of 2008 › Section 3115.202 | Duration of Personal Jurisdiction.

Effective:
January 1, 2016
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 64 - 131st General Assembly
Personal jurisdiction acquired by a tribunal of this state in a proceeding under this chapter or other law of this state relating to a support order continues as long as a tribunal of this state has continuing, exclusive jurisdiction to modify its order or continuing jurisdiction to enforce its order as provided by sections 3115.205, 3115.206, and 3115.211 of the Revised Code.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 31 | Domestic Relations-Children › Chapter 3115 | Uniform Interstate Family Support Act of 2008 › Section 3115.203 | Initiating and Responding Tribunal of State.

Effective:
January 1, 2016
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 64 - 131st General Assembly
Under this chapter, a tribunal of this state may serve as an initiating tribunal to forward proceedings to a tribunal of another state, and as a responding tribunal for proceedings initiated in another state or a foreign country.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 31 | Domestic Relations-Children › Chapter 3115 | Uniform Interstate Family Support Act of 2008 › Section 3115.204 | Simultaneous Proceedings.

Effective:
January 1, 2016
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 64 - 131st General Assembly
(A) A tribunal of this state may exercise jurisdiction to establish a support order if the petition or comparable pleading is filed after a pleading is filed in another state or a foreign country only if all of the following apply:
(1) The petition or comparable pleading in this state is filed before the expiration of the time allowed in the other state or the foreign country for filing a responsive pleading challenging the exercise of jurisdiction by the other state or the foreign country.
(2) The contesting party timely challenges the exercise of jurisdiction in the other state or the foreign country.
(3) If relevant, this state is the home state of the child.
(B) A tribunal of this state may not exercise jurisdiction to establish a support order if the petition or comparable pleading is filed before a petition or comparable pleading is filed in another state or a foreign country if all of the following apply:
(1) The petition or comparable pleading in the other state or foreign country is filed before the expiration of the time allowed in this state for filing a responsive pleading challenging the exercise of jurisdiction by this state.
(2) The contesting party timely challenges the exercise of jurisdiction in this state.
(3) If relevant, the other state or foreign country is the home state of the child.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 31 | Domestic Relations-Children › Chapter 3115 | Uniform Interstate Family Support Act of 2008 › Section 3115.205 | Continuing, Exclusive Jurisdiction to Modify Child-Support Order.

Effective:
January 1, 2016
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 64 - 131st General Assembly
(A) A tribunal of this state that has issued a child-support order consistent with the law of this state has and shall exercise continuing, exclusive jurisdiction to modify its child-support order if the order is the controlling order and either of the following applies:
(1) At the time of the filing of a request for modification, this state is the residence of the obligor, the individual obligee, or the child for whose benefit the support order is issued.
(2) Even if this state is not the residence of the obligor, the individual obligee, or the child for whose benefit the support order is issued, the parties consent in a record or in open court that the tribunal of this state may continue to exercise jurisdiction to modify its order.
(B) A tribunal or support enforcement agency of this state that has issued a child-support order consistent with the law of this state may not exercise continuing, exclusive jurisdiction to modify the order if either of the following applies:
(1) All of the parties who are individuals file consent in a record with the tribunal of this state that a tribunal of another state that has jurisdiction over at least one of the parties who is an individual or that is located in the state of residence of the child may modify the order and assume continuing, exclusive jurisdiction.
(2) Its order is not the controlling order.
(C) If a tribunal of another state has issued a child- support order pursuant to the uniform interstate family support act or a law substantially similar to that act that modifies a child-support order of a tribunal of this state, tribunals of this state shall recognize the continuing, exclusive jurisdiction of the tribunal of the other state.
(D) A tribunal of this state that lacks continuing, exclusive jurisdiction to modify a child-support order may serve as an initiating tribunal to request a tribunal of another state to modify a support order issued in that state.
(E) A temporary support order issued ex parte or pending resolution of a jurisdictional conflict does not create continuing, exclusive jurisdiction in the issuing tribunal.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 31 | Domestic Relations-Children › Chapter 3115 | Uniform Interstate Family Support Act of 2008 › Section 3115.206 | Continuing Jurisdiction to Enforce Child-Support Order.

Effective:
January 1, 2016
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 64 - 131st General Assembly
(A) A tribunal of this state that has issued a child-support order consistent with the law of this state may serve as an initiating tribunal to request a tribunal of another state to enforce either of the following:
(1) The order, if the order is the controlling order and has not been modified by a tribunal of another state that assumed jurisdiction pursuant to its uniform interstate family support act;
(2) A money judgment for arrears of support and interest on the order accrued before a determination that an order of a tribunal of another state is the controlling order.
(B) A tribunal of this state having continuing jurisdiction over a support order may act as a responding tribunal to enforce the order.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 31 | Domestic Relations-Children › Chapter 3115 | Uniform Interstate Family Support Act of 2008 › Section 3115.208 | Child-Support Orders for Two or More Obligees.

Effective:
January 1, 2016
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 64 - 131st General Assembly
In responding to registrations or petitions for enforcement of two or more child-support orders in effect at the same time with regard to the same obligor and different individual obligees, at least one of which was issued by a tribunal of another state or a foreign country, a tribunal of this state shall enforce those orders in the same manner as if the orders had been issued by a tribunal of this state.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 31 | Domestic Relations-Children › Chapter 3115 | Uniform Interstate Family Support Act of 2008 › Section 3115.209 | Credit for Payments.

Effective:
January 1, 2016
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 64 - 131st General Assembly
A tribunal of this state shall credit amounts collected for a particular period pursuant to any child-support order against the amounts owed for the same period under any other child-support order for support of the same child issued by a tribunal of this state, another state, or a foreign country.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 31 | Domestic Relations-Children › Chapter 3115 | Uniform Interstate Family Support Act of 2008 › Section 3115.210 | Application to Nonresident Subject to Personal Jurisdiction.

Effective:
January 1, 2016
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 64 - 131st General Assembly
A tribunal of this state exercising personal jurisdiction over a nonresident in a proceeding under this chapter, under other law of this state relating to a support order, or recognizing a foreign support order may receive evidence from outside this state pursuant to section 3115.316 of the Revised Code, communicate with a tribunal outside this state pursuant to section 3115.317 of the Revised Code, and obtain discovery through a tribunal outside this state pursuant to section 3115.318 of the Revised Code. In all other respects, sections 3115.301 to 3115.616 of the Revised Code do not apply, and the tribunal shall apply the procedural and substantive law of this state.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 31 | Domestic Relations-Children › Chapter 3115 | Uniform Interstate Family Support Act of 2008 › Section 3115.211 | Continuing, Exlcusive Jurisdiction to Modify Spousal-Support Order.

Effective:
January 1, 2016
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 64 - 131st General Assembly
(A) A tribunal of this state issuing a spousal-support order consistent with the law of this state has continuing, exclusive jurisdiction to modify the spousal-support order throughout the existence of the support obligation.
(B) A tribunal of this state may not modify a spousal-support order issued by a tribunal of another state or a foreign country having continuing, exclusive jurisdiction over that order under the law of that state or foreign country.
(C) A tribunal of this state that has continuing, exclusive jurisdiction over a spousal-support order may serve as either of the following:
(1) An initiating tribunal to request a tribunal of another state to enforce the spousal-support order issued in this state;
(2) A responding tribunal to enforce or modify its own spousal-support order.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 31 | Domestic Relations-Children › Chapter 3115 | Uniform Interstate Family Support Act of 2008 › Section 3115.301 | Proceedings Under Act.

Effective:
January 1, 2016
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 64 - 131st General Assembly
(A) Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, sections 3115.301 to 3115.319 of the Revised Code apply to all proceedings under this chapter.
(B) An individual petitioner or a support enforcement agency may initiate a proceeding authorized under this chapter by filing a petition in an initiating tribunal for forwarding to a responding tribunal or by filing a petition or a comparable pleading directly in a tribunal of another state or a foreign country that has or can obtain personal jurisdiction over the respondent.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 31 | Domestic Relations-Children › Chapter 3115 | Uniform Interstate Family Support Act of 2008 › Section 3115.302 | Proceeding by Minor Parent.

Effective:
January 1, 2016
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 64 - 131st General Assembly
A minor parent, or a guardian or other legal representative of a minor parent, may maintain a proceeding on behalf of or for the benefit of the minor's child.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 31 | Domestic Relations-Children › Chapter 3115 | Uniform Interstate Family Support Act of 2008 › Section 3115.303 | Application of Law of State.

Effective:
January 1, 2016
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 64 - 131st General Assembly
Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, a responding tribunal of this state shall do both of the following:
(A) Apply the procedural and substantive law generally applicable to similar proceedings originating in this state and may exercise all powers and provide all remedies available in those proceedings;
(B) Determine the duty of support and the amount payable in accordance with the law and support guidelines of this state.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 31 | Domestic Relations-Children › Chapter 3115 | Uniform Interstate Family Support Act of 2008 › Section 3115.304 | Duties of Initiating Tribunal.

Effective:
January 1, 2016
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 64 - 131st General Assembly
(A) Upon the filing of a petition authorized by this chapter, an initiating tribunal of this state shall forward the petition and its accompanying documents to whichever of the following is relevant:
(1) The responding tribunal or appropriate support enforcement agency in the responding state;
(2) If the identity of the responding tribunal is unknown, the state information agency of the responding state with a request that they be forwarded to the appropriate tribunal and that receipt be acknowledged.
(B) If requested by the responding tribunal, a tribunal of this state shall issue a certificate or other document and make findings required by the law of the responding state. If the responding tribunal is in a foreign country, upon request the tribunal of this state shall specify the amount of support sought, convert that amount into the equivalent amount in the foreign currency under applicable official or market exchange rate as publicly reported, and provide any other documents necessary to satisfy the requirements of the responding foreign tribunal.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 31 | Domestic Relations-Children › Chapter 3115 | Uniform Interstate Family Support Act of 2008 › Section 3115.305 | Duties and Powers of Responding Tribunal.

Effective:
January 1, 2016
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 64 - 131st General Assembly
(A) When a responding support enforcement agency of this state receives a petition or comparable pleading from an initiating tribunal or directly pursuant to division (B) of section 3115.301 of the Revised Code, 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 capias for an obligor who has failed after proper notice to appear at a hearing ordered by the tribunal and enter the capias 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;
(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.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 31 | Domestic Relations-Children › Chapter 3115 | Uniform Interstate Family Support Act of 2008 › Section 3115.306 | Inappropriate Tribunal.

Effective:
January 1, 2016
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 64 - 131st General Assembly
If a petition or comparable pleading is received by an inappropriate tribunal or support enforcement agency of this state, the tribunal or support enforcement agency shall forward the pleading and accompanying documents to an appropriate tribunal or support enforcement agency of this state or another state and notify the petitioner where and when the pleading was sent.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 31 | Domestic Relations-Children › Chapter 3115 | Uniform Interstate Family Support Act of 2008 › Section 3115.307 | Duties of Support Enforcement Agency.

Effective:
January 1, 2016
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 64 - 131st General Assembly
(A) A support enforcement agency of this state, upon request, shall provide services to a petitioner in a proceeding under this chapter.
(B) A support enforcement agency of this state that is providing services to the petitioner shall do all of the following:
(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) Within two days, exclusive of Saturdays, Sundays, and legal holidays, after receipt of notice in a record from an initiating, responding, or registering tribunal, send a copy of the notice to the petitioner;
(5) Within two days, exclusive of Saturdays, Sundays, and legal holidays, after receipt of communication in a record from the respondent or the respondent's attorney, send a copy of the communication to the petitioner;
(6) Notify the petitioner if jurisdiction over the respondent cannot be obtained.
(C) A support enforcement agency of this state that requests registration of a child-support order in this state for enforcement or for modification shall make reasonable efforts to do whichever of the following is relevant:
(1) Ensure that the order to be registered is the controlling order;
(2) If two or more child-support orders exist and the identity of the controlling order has not been determined, ensure that a request for such a determination is made in a tribunal having jurisdiction to do so.
(D) 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.
(E) 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 pursuant to section 3115.319 of the Revised Code.
(F) This chapter does not create or negate a relationship of attorney and client or other fiduciary relationship between a support enforcement agency or the attorney for the agency and the individual being assisted by the agency.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 31 | Domestic Relations-Children › Chapter 3115 | Uniform Interstate Family Support Act of 2008 › Section 3115.308 | Duty of Department of Job and Family Services.

Effective:
January 1, 2016
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 64 - 131st General Assembly
(A) If the department of job and family services determines that the support enforcement agency is neglecting or refusing to provide services to an individual, the department may order the agency to perform its duties under this chapter or may provide those services directly to the individual.
(B) The department of job and family 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.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 31 | Domestic Relations-Children › Chapter 3115 | Uniform Interstate Family Support Act of 2008 › Section 3115.310 | Duties of State Information Agency.

Effective:
January 1, 2016
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 64 - 131st General Assembly
(A) The department of job and family services is the state information agency under this chapter.
(B) The state information agency shall do all of the following:
(1) Compile and maintain a current list, including addresses, of the tribunals in this state that have jurisdiction under this chapter 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 support enforcement agency 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 chapter received from another state or a foreign country;
(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.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 31 | Domestic Relations-Children › Chapter 3115 | Uniform Interstate Family Support Act of 2008 › Section 3115.311 | Pleadings and Accompanying Documents.

Effective:
January 1, 2016
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 64 - 131st General Assembly
(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 must file a petition. Unless otherwise ordered under section 3115.312 of the Revised Code, 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 to the requirements imposed by the forms mandated by federal law for use in cases filed by a support enforcement agency.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 31 | Domestic Relations-Children › Chapter 3115 | Uniform Interstate Family Support Act of 2008 › Section 3115.312 | Nondisclosure of Information in Exceptional Circumstances.

Effective:
January 1, 2016
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 64 - 131st General Assembly
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.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 31 | Domestic Relations-Children › Chapter 3115 | Uniform Interstate Family Support Act of 2008 › Section 3115.313 | Costs and Fees.

Effective:
January 1, 2016
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 64 - 131st General Assembly
(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 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 sections 3115.601 to 3115.616 of the Revised Code, a hearing is presumed to have been requested primarily for delay if a registered support order is confirmed or enforced without change.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 31 | Domestic Relations-Children › Chapter 3115 | Uniform Interstate Family Support Act of 2008 › Section 3115.314 | Limited Immunity of Petitioner.

Effective:
January 1, 2016
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 64 - 131st General Assembly
(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 physically present in this state to participate in the proceeding.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 31 | Domestic Relations-Children › Chapter 3115 | Uniform Interstate Family Support Act of 2008 › Section 3115.315 | Nonparentage as a Defense.

Effective:
January 1, 2016
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 64 - 131st General Assembly
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 chapter.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 31 | Domestic Relations-Children › Chapter 3115 | Uniform Interstate Family Support Act of 2008 › Section 3115.316 | Special Rules of Evidence and Procedure.

Effective:
January 1, 2016
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 64 - 131st General Assembly
(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 ten days before trial, are admissible in evidence to prove the amount of the charges billed and that the charges were reasonable, necessary, and customary.
(E) Documentary evidence transmitted from outside this state to a tribunal of this state by telephone, telecopier, or other electronic means that do not provide an original record may not be excluded from evidence on an objection based on the means of transmission.
(F) In a proceeding under this chapter, a tribunal of this state shall permit a party or witness residing outside this state to be deposed or to testify under penalty of perjury by telephone, audiovisual means, or other electronic means at a designated tribunal or other location. A tribunal or support enforcement agency of this state shall cooperate with other tribunals in designating an appropriate location for the deposition or testimony.
(G) If a party called to testify at a civil hearing refuses to answer on the ground that the testimony may be self-incriminating, the trier of fact may draw an adverse inference from the refusal.
(H) A privilege against disclosure of communications between spouses does not apply in a proceeding under this chapter.
(I) The defense of immunity based on the relationship of husband and wife or parent and child does not apply in a proceeding under this chapter.
(J) A voluntary acknowledgment of paternity, certified as a true copy, is admissible to establish parentage of the child.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 31 | Domestic Relations-Children › Chapter 3115 | Uniform Interstate Family Support Act of 2008 › Section 3115.317 | Communications Between Tribunals.

Effective:
January 1, 2016
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 64 - 131st General Assembly
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.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 31 | Domestic Relations-Children › Chapter 3115 | Uniform Interstate Family Support Act of 2008 › Section 3115.318 | Assistance With Discovery.

Effective:
January 1, 2016
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 64 - 131st General Assembly
A tribunal of this state may do both of the following:
(A) Request a tribunal outside this state to assist in obtaining discovery;
(B) Upon request, compel a person over which it has jurisdiction to respond to a discovery order issued by a tribunal outside this state.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 31 | Domestic Relations-Children › Chapter 3115 | Uniform Interstate Family Support Act of 2008 › Section 3115.319 | Receipt and Disbursement of Payments.

Effective:
January 1, 2016
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 64 - 131st General Assembly
(A) A support enforcement agency or tribunal of this state shall disburse promptly any amounts received pursuant to a support order, as directed by the order. The agency or tribunal shall furnish to a requesting party or tribunal of another state or a foreign country a certified statement by the custodian of the record of the amounts and dates of all payments received.
(B) If neither the obligor, nor the obligee who is an individual, nor the child resides in this state, upon request from the support enforcement agency of this state or another state, the support enforcement agency of this state or a tribunal of this state shall do both of the following:
(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 or other payor 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 division (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.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 31 | Domestic Relations-Children › Chapter 3115 | Uniform Interstate Family Support Act of 2008 › Section 3115.401 | Establishment of Support Order.

Effective:
January 1, 2016
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 64 - 131st General Assembly
(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 either of the following applies:
(1) The individual seeking the order resides outside this state.
(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 any of the following:
(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 section 3111.20 to 3111.35 of the Revised Code;
(7) The mother of the child;
(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 3115.305 of the Revised Code.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 31 | Domestic Relations-Children › Chapter 3115 | Uniform Interstate Family Support Act of 2008 › Section 3115.402 | Proceeding to Determine Parentage.

Effective:
January 1, 2016
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 64 - 131st General Assembly
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.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 31 | Domestic Relations-Children › Chapter 3115 | Uniform Interstate Family Support Act of 2008 › Section 3115.501 | Employer's Receipt of Income-Withholding Order of Another State.

Effective:
January 1, 2016
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 64 - 131st General Assembly
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 or other payor under Chapter 3121. of the Revised Code without first filing a petition or comparable pleading or registering the order with a tribunal of this state.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 31 | Domestic Relations-Children › Chapter 3115 | Uniform Interstate Family Support Act of 2008 › Section 3115.502 | Employer's Compliance With Income-Withholding Order of Another State.

Effective:
January 1, 2016
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 64 - 131st General Assembly
(A) Upon receipt of an income-withholding order, the obligor's employer or other payor shall immediately provide a copy of the order to the obligor.
(B) The employer or other payor shall treat an income-withholding order issued in another state that appears regular on its face as if it had been issued by a tribunal of this state.
(C) Except as otherwise provided in division (D) of this section and section 3115.503 of the Revised Code, the employer or other payor shall withhold and distribute the funds as directed in the withholding order by complying with terms of the order that specify any of the following:
(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;
(5) The amount of periodic payments of arrearages and interest on arrearages, stated as sums certain.
(D) An employer or other payor shall comply with the law of the state of the obligor's principal place of employment for withholding from income with respect to all of the following:
(1) The employer's or other payor's fee for processing an income-withholding order;
(2) The maximum amount permitted to be withheld from the obligor's income;
(3) The times within which the employer or other payor must implement the withholding order and forward the child-support payment.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 31 | Domestic Relations-Children › Chapter 3115 | Uniform Interstate Family Support Act of 2008 › Section 3115.503 | Employer's Compliance With Two or More Income-Withholding Orders.

Effective:
January 1, 2016
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 64 - 131st General Assembly
If an obligor's employer or other payor receives two or more income-withholding orders with respect to the earnings of the same obligor, the employer or other payor satisfies the terms of the orders if the employer or other payor 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.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 31 | Domestic Relations-Children › Chapter 3115 | Uniform Interstate Family Support Act of 2008 › Section 3115.504 | Immunity From Civil Liability.

Effective:
January 1, 2016
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 64 - 131st General Assembly
An employer or other payor that complies with an income-withholding order issued in another state in accordance with sections 3115.501 to 3115.507 of the Revised Code is not subject to civil liability to an individual or agency with regard to the employer's or other payor's withholding of child support from the obligor's income.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 31 | Domestic Relations-Children › Chapter 3115 | Uniform Interstate Family Support Act of 2008 › Section 3115.505 | Penalties for Noncompliance.

Effective:
January 1, 2016
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 64 - 131st General Assembly
An employer or other payor that willfully fails to comply with an income-withholding order issued in another state and received for enforcement is subject to the same penalties that may be imposed for noncompliance with an order issued by a tribunal of this state.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 31 | Domestic Relations-Children › Chapter 3115 | Uniform Interstate Family Support Act of 2008 › Section 3115.506 | Contest by Obligor.

Effective:
January 1, 2016
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 64 - 131st General Assembly
(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 payor in this state by registering the order in a court of this state and filing a contest to that order as provided in sections 3115.601 to 3115.616 of the Revised Code, or otherwise contesting the order in the same manner as if the order had been issued by a tribunal of this state.
(B) The obligor shall give notice of the contest to all of the following:
(1) A support enforcement agency providing services to the obligee;
(2) Each employer or other payor that has directly received an income-withholding order relating to the obligor;
(3) The person designated to receive payments in the income-withholding order or, if no person is designated, the obligee.