Application to Resident of Foreign Country and Foreign Support Proceeding

S.C. Code Ann. § 63-17-2940, under Title 63, Chapter 17.

S.C. Code Ann. § 63-17-2940

(A) A tribunal of this State shall apply Parts I through VI and, as applicable, Part VII, 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. (B) 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 I through VI. (C) Part VII applies only to a support proceeding under the convention. In such a proceeding, if a provision of Part VII is inconsistent with Parts I through VI, Part VII controls.