Title 25 — Marital and Domestic Relations

A. The petitioner may not be required to pay a filing fee or other costs. B. If an obligee prevails, a responding tribunal of this state may assess against an obligor filing fees, reasonable attorney fees, other costs and necessary travel and other reasonable expenses incurred by…

A. Participation by a petitioner in a proceeding before a responding tribunal, whether in person, by private attorney or through services provided by the support enforcement agency, does not confer personal jurisdiction over the petitioner in another proceeding. B. A petitioner i…

A party whose parentage of a child has been previously determined by or pursuant to law shall not plead nonparentage as a defense to a proceeding under this chapter.

A. The physical presence of a nonresident party who is an individual in a tribunal of this state is not required for the establishment, enforcement or modification of a support order or the rendition of a judgment determining parentage of a child. B. An affidavit, a document subs…

A tribunal of this state may communicate with a tribunal outside this state in a record or by telephone, e-mail or other means to obtain information concerning the laws, the legal effect of a judgment, decree or order of that tribunal and the status of a proceeding. A tribunal of…

A tribunal of this state may: 1. Request a tribunal outside this state to assist in obtaining discovery. 2. On request, compel a person over which it has jurisdiction to respond to a discovery order issued by a tribunal outside this state.

A. A support enforcement agency or tribunal of this state shall disburse promptly any amounts received pursuant to a support order, as directed by the order. The agency or tribunal shall furnish to a requesting party or tribunal of another state or a foreign country a certified s…

A. If a support order entitled to recognition under this chapter has not been issued, a responding tribunal of this state with personal jurisdiction over the parties may issue a support order if either: 1. The individual seeking the order resides outside this state. 2. The suppor…

A tribunal of this state authorized to determine parentage of a child may serve as a responding tribunal in a proceeding to determine the parentage of a child brought under this chapter or a law or procedure substantially similar to this chapter.

An income withholding order issued in another state may be sent by or on behalf of the obligee or by the support enforcement agency to the person defined as the obligor's employer under the income withholding laws of this state without first filing a petition or comparable pleadi…

A. On receipt of an income withholding order, the obligor's employer shall immediately provide a copy of the order to the obligor. B. The employer shall treat an income withholding order issued in another state that appears regular on its face as if it had been issued by a tribun…

If the obligor's employer receives two or more orders to withhold support from the earnings, income, entitlements or other monies of the same obligor, the employer is deemed to have satisfied the terms of the orders if the employer complies with the law of the state of the obligo…

An employer that complies with an income withholding order issued in another state in accordance with this article is not subject to civil liability to an individual or agency with regard to the employer's withholding of child support from the obligor's income.

An employer that wilfully fails to comply with an income withholding order issued in another state and received for enforcement is subject to the same penalties that may be imposed for noncompliance with an order issued by a tribunal of this state.

A. An obligor may contest the validity or enforcement of an income withholding order issued in another state and received directly by an employer in this state by registering the order in a tribunal of this state and filing a contest to that order as provided in article 6 of this…

A. A party or support enforcement agency seeking to enforce a support order or an income withholding order, or both, issued in another state or a foreign support order may send the documents required for registering the order to a support enforcement agency of this state. B. On r…

A support order or an income withholding order issued in another state or a foreign support order may be registered in this state for enforcement.

A. Except as provided in section 25-1336, a support order or income withholding order of another state or a foreign support order may be registered in this state by sending the following documents to the appropriate tribunal in this state: 1. A letter of transmittal to the tribun…

A. A support order or income withholding order issued in another state or a foreign support order is registered when the order is filed in the registering tribunal of this state. B. A registered support order issued in another state or a foreign country is enforceable in the same…

A. Except as otherwise provided in subsection D of this section, the law of the issuing state or foreign country governs: 1. The nature, extent, amount and duration of current payments under a registered support order. 2. The computation and payment of arrearages and accrual of i…

A. When a support order or income withholding order issued in another state or a foreign support order is registered, the registering tribunal of this state shall notify the nonregistering party. Notice shall be given by first class or registered mail or by any means of personal …

A. A nonregistering party seeking to contest the validity or enforcement of a registered support order in this state shall request a hearing within the time required by section 25-1305. The nonregistering party may seek to vacate the registration, to assert any defense to an alle…

A. A party contesting the validity or enforcement of a registered support order or seeking to vacate the registration has the burden of proving one or more of the following defenses: 1. The issuing tribunal lacked personal jurisdiction over the contesting party. 2. The order was …

Confirmation of a registered support order, whether by operation of law or after notice and a hearing, precludes further contest of the order with respect to any matter that could have been asserted at the time of registration.

A party or support enforcement agency seeking to modify, or to modify and enforce, a child support order issued in another state shall register that order in this state in the same manner as provided in sections 25-1301, 25-1302, 25-1303, 25-1304, 25-1305, 25-1306, 25-1307 and 25…

A tribunal of this state may enforce a child support order of another state registered for purposes of modification in the same manner as if the order had been issued by a tribunal of this state, but the registered support order may be modified only if the requirements of section…

A. If section 25-1313 does not apply, on petition, a tribunal of this state may modify a child support order issued in another state that is registered in this state if, after notice and a hearing, it finds that any of the following is true: 1. The following requirements are met:…

If a child support order issued by a tribunal of this state is modified by a tribunal of another state that assumed jurisdiction pursuant to the uniform interstate family support act, a tribunal of this state: 1. May enforce the order that was modified only as to arrears and inte…

A. If all of the individual parties reside in this state and the child does not reside in the issuing state, a tribunal of this state has jurisdiction to enforce and modify the issuing state's child support order in a proceeding to register that order. B. A tribunal of this state…

Within thirty days after issuance of a modified child support order, the party obtaining the modification shall file a certified copy of the order with the issuing tribunal that had continuing, exclusive jurisdiction over the earlier order and in each tribunal in which the party …

A. Except as provided in section 25-1341, if a foreign country lacks or refuses to exercise jurisdiction to modify its child support order pursuant to its laws, a tribunal of this state may assume jurisdiction to modify the child support order and bind all individuals subject to …

A party or support enforcement agency seeking to modify, or to modify and enforce, a foreign child support order not under the convention may register that order in this state in the same manner as provided in sections 25-1301, 25-1302, 25-1303, 25-1304, 25-1305, 25-1306, 25-1307…

In this article: 1. "Application" means a request under the convention by an obligee or obligor, or on behalf of a child, made through a central authority for assistance from another central authority. 2. "Central authority" means the entity designated by the United States or a f…

This article applies only to a support proceeding under the convention. In such a proceeding, if a provision of this article is inconsistent with articles 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 of this chapter, this article controls.

The department of economic security is recognized as the agency designated by the United States central authority to perform specific functions under the convention.

A. In a support proceeding under this article, the department of economic security shall do both of the following: 1. Transmit and receive applications. 2. Initiate or facilitate the institution of a proceeding regarding an application in a tribunal of this state. B. The followin…

A. A petitioner may file a direct request seeking establishment or modification of a support order or determination of parentage of a child. In the proceeding, the law of this state applies. B. A petitioner may file a direct request seeking recognition and enforcement of a suppor…

A. Except as otherwise provided in this article, a party who is an individual or that is a support enforcement agency seeking recognition of a convention support order shall register the order in this state as provided in article 6 of this chapter. B. Notwithstanding section 25-1…

B. A party contesting a registered convention support order shall file a contest not later than thirty days after the date of mailing or personal service of the notice of the registration, but if the contesting party does not reside in the United States, the contesting party shal…

A. Except as provided in subsection B of this section, a tribunal of this state shall recognize and enforce a registered convention support order. B. The following grounds are the only grounds on which a tribunal of this state may refuse recognition and enforcement of a registere…

If a tribunal of this state does not recognize and enforce a convention support order in its entirety, it shall enforce any severable part of the order. An application or direct request may seek recognition and partial enforcement of a convention support order.

A. Except as provided in subsections C and D of this section, a tribunal of this state shall recognize and enforce a foreign support agreement registered in this state. B. An application or direct request for recognition and enforcement of a foreign support agreement must be acco…

A. A tribunal of this state may not modify a convention child support order if the obligee remains a resident of the foreign country where the support order was issued unless either of the following applies: 1. The obligee submits to the jurisdiction of a tribunal of this state, …

Personal information gathered or transmitted under this article may be used only for the purposes for which it was gathered or transmitted.

A record filed with a tribunal of this state under this article must be in the original language and, if not in English, must be accompanied by an English translation.

A. The governor of this state may: 1. Demand that the governor of another state surrender an individual found in the other state who is charged criminally in this state with having failed to provide for the support of an obligee. 2. On the demand of the governor of another state,…

A. Before making a demand that the governor of another state surrender an individual, the governor of this state may require a prosecutor of this state to demonstrate that at least sixty days previously the obligee had initiated proceedings for support pursuant to this chapter or…

Every child is the legitimate child of its natural parents and is entitled to support and education as if born in lawful wedlock.

B. If deemed necessary to adequately assess the capacity of an adult party to a pending proceeding pursuant to this title, on the request of the guardian ad litem or on the court's own motion the court may order an independent evaluation by a licensed physician who is competent t…