(a) In a support proceeding under sections 518C.701 to 518C.713, the Department of Human Services 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 no 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 section 518C.708, paragraph (b), clause (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 which 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.
History:2014 c 189 s 58,73; 2015 c 71 art 1 s 119