California Code of Regulations
Title 22 - Social Security
Division 13 - Department of Child Support Services
Chapter 7 - Intergovernmental Cases
Article 5 - California as Responding State
Section 117503 - Registration of Orders
Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 52, December 27, 2024
(a) A local child support agency shall request an initiating state or foreign country to provide certified copies of all orders to be registered when the initiating state or foreign country requests registration of an order for enforcement and/or modification.
(b) Where California is acting as the responding jurisdiction to a state as defined by UIFSA, a local child support agency is not required to register an order if it can be enforced in this state through administrative remedies without registration. An order issued outside the United States must be registered in this state prior to enforcement by a local child support agency.
(c) Where an order is issued in a country that does not qualify as a foreign country pursuant to Family Code section 5700.102(5), a local child support agency may seek recognition and enforcement of the order in this state based on comity.
Note: Authority cited: Sections 17306, 17310 and 17312, Family Code. Reference: Sections 5700.102, 5700.104, 5700.507, 5700.601, 5700.602, 5700.603, 5700.604 and 5700.605, Family Code.
Note: Authority cited: Sections 17306, 17310 and 17312, Family Code. Reference: Sections 4946 and 4950- 4954, Family Code.
