Confirmation of a registered support order, whether by operation of law or after notice and hearing, precludes further contest of the order with respect to any matter that could have been asserted at the time of registration.
Source: L. 93: Entire article R&RE, p. 1599, § 1, effective January 1, 1995. L. 2015: Entire part amended, (HB 15-1198), ch. 173, p. 558, § 31, effective July 1.
SUBPART C
REGISTRATION AND MODIFICATION
OF CHILD SUPPORT ORDER OF ANOTHER STATE
INTRODUCTORY COMMENT
Authority to modify a child-support order of another state depends on the interaction of these sections with the continuing, exclusive jurisdiction of the issuing tribunal. See Sections 205 through 206. This also might involve the determination of the controlling order in asituation involving multiple child-support orders. These concepts are not present in the international context. See Sections 615, 616, and 711. Thus, modification of a support order from a foreign country other than a Convention country is not governed by
Sections 609-614, but is subject to
Sections615-616, infra.
Sections 609 through 614 apply only to modification of an interstate child-support order. Most of the act applies to "a support order," which includes both child-support and spousal support. Both categories are generally subject to interstate enforcement under UIFSA. But, as a practical matter, the actual process of that enforcement is quite different. Child support is enforced almost exclusively by governmentally sponsored Title IV-D agencies, which also may enforce spousal support if it is included in the same order. In some states, local funds are appropriated forenforcement of spousal support as well. Only occasionally will a private attorney be involved in a childin conjunction with a child-support order generally requires representation pro se or by private counsel. More importantly, a tribunal of a responding state may enforce spousal support, but it does not have authority to modify a spousal-support order of another state or foreign country unless the law of that jurisdiction does not assert continuing, exclusive jurisdiction over its order. See Section 211.
support case, but spousal support not issued