Application of Parts 21-27 of This Chapter to Resident of Foreign Country and Foreign Support Proceeding

1. Law
2. Tennessee Code
3. Domestic Relations
4. Alimony and Child Support
5. Uniform Interstate Family Support Act — General Provisions
6. Application of Parts 21-27 of This Chapter to Resident of Foreign Country and Foreign Support Proceeding

1. A tribunal of this state shall apply parts 21-26 of this chapter and, as applicable, part 27 of this chapter, to a support proceeding involving:
   1. A foreign support order;
   2. A foreign tribunal; or
   3. An obligee, obligor, or child residing in a foreign country.
2. 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 parts 21-26 of this chapter.
3. Part 27 of this chapter applies only to a support proceeding under the Convention. In such a proceeding, if a provision of part 27 of this chapter is inconsistent with parts 21-26 of this chapter, then part 27 of this chapter controls.

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