Title 31, FAMILY LAW AND JUVENILE LAW

Sec. 3.5. (a) The Indiana criminal justice institute may use available funds to strengthen the Indiana criminal justice institute's grant management capacity to: (1) serve as an efficient pass through to grantees; (2) provide quality assurance and technical assistance to grantees…

Sec. 4. (a) A grantee participating in any program described in this chapter shall engage in collaborative service planning with the grantee's local or regional justice reinvestment advisory council (as described in IC 33-38-9.5-4), another local collaborative body that includes …

Sec. 4.5. (a) The Indiana criminal justice institute shall administer grants for the juvenile behavioral health competitive grant program in consultation with the oversight committee and the workgroup, taking into consideration the grant program report prepared and submitted to t…

Sec. 5. (a) The juvenile behavioral health competitive grant program fund is established to provide grants under this chapter. The fund shall be administered by the Indiana criminal justice institute (as described in IC 5-2-6). (b) The fund consists of: (1) money appropriated to …

Sec. 1. A support order or income withholding order issued in another state or a foreign support order may be registered in Indiana for enforcement. As added by P.L.206-2015, SEC.53.

Sec. 10. An Indiana tribunal 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 an Indiana tribunal, but the registered support order may be modified only if the requirements of section…

Sec. 11. (a) If section 13 of this chapter does not apply, upon petition, an Indiana tribunal may modify a child support order issued in another state which is registered in Indiana if, after notice and hearing, the tribunal finds that: (1) the following requirements are met: (A)…

Sec. 12. If a child support order issued by an Indiana tribunal is modified by a tribunal of another state which assumed jurisdiction under the Uniform Interstate Family Support Act, an Indiana tribunal: (1) may enforce its order that was modified only as to arrears and interest …

Sec. 13. (a) If all of the parties who are individuals reside in Indiana and the child does not reside in the issuing state, an Indiana tribunal has jurisdiction to enforce and to modify the issuing state's child support order in a proceeding to register that order. (b) An Indian…

Sec. 14. Within thirty (30) 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 w…

Sec. 15. (a) Except as otherwise provided in IC 31-18.5-7-11, if a foreign country lacks or refuses to exercise jurisdiction to modify its child support order pursuant to its laws, an Indiana tribunal may assume jurisdiction to modify the child support order and bind all individu…

Sec. 16. A party or support enforcement agency seeking to: (1) modify; or (2) modify and enforce; a foreign child support order not under the Convention may register that order in Indiana under sections 1 through 8 of this chapter if the order has not been registered. A petition …

Sec. 2. (a) Except as otherwise provided in IC 31-18.5-7-6, a support order or income withholding order of another state or a foreign support order may be registered in Indiana by sending the following records to the appropriate tribunal in Indiana: (1) a letter of transmittal to…

Sec. 3. (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 Indiana tribunal. (b) A registered support order issued in another state or a foreign country is enforceable in the …

Sec. 4. (a) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (d), 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 int…

Sec. 5. (a) When a support order or income withholding order issued in another state or a foreign support order is registered, the registering Indiana tribunal shall notify the nonregistering party. The notice must be accompanied by a copy of the registered order and the document…

Sec. 6. (a) A nonregistering party seeking to contest the validity or enforcement of a registered support order in Indiana shall request a hearing within the time required by section 5 of this chapter. The nonregistering party may seek to vacate the registration to assert any def…

Sec. 7. (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 (1) or more of the following defenses: (1) The issuing tribunal lacked personal jurisdiction over the contesting party. (2)…

Sec. 8. Confirmation of a registered support order, whether by operation of law or after notice and hearing, precludes further contest of the order with respect to any matter that could have been asserted at the time of registration. As added by P.L.206-2015, SEC.53.

Sec. 9. 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 Indiana in the same manner provided in sections 1 through 8 of this chapter if the order has not been registered. …