7-1016. PROCEEDINGS UNDER THIS CHAPTER. (1) Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, sections 7-1016 through 7-1034, Idaho Code, apply to all proceedings under the provisions of this chapter.
(2) 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 which has or can obtain personal jurisdiction over the respondent.
History:
[(7-1016) 7-1013, added 1994, ch. 207, sec. 2, p. 645; am. 1997, ch. 198, sec. 6, p. 561; am. and redesig. 2006, ch. 252, sec. 16, p. 772; am. 2015, 1st E.S., ch. 1, sec. 14, p. 14.]