in 1999]

110.452 in 1999]

����� 110.443 [Formerly 110.313; repealed by 2015 c.298 �80]

����� 110.446 [Formerly 110.301; repealed by 2015 c.298 �80]

����� 110.449 [Formerly 110.300; repealed by 2015 c.298 �80]

����� 110.452 [Formerly 110.441; repealed by 2015 c.298 �80]

GENERAL PROVISIONS

����� 110.500 Short title. This chapter may be cited as the Uniform Interstate Family Support Act. [2015 c.298 �2]

����� 110.503 Definitions. As used in this chapter:

����� (1) �Child� means an individual, whether over or under the age of majority, who is or is alleged to be owed a duty of support by the individual�s parent or who is or is alleged to be the beneficiary of a support order directed to the parent.

����� (2) �Child support order� means a support order for a child, including a child who has attained the age of majority under the law of the issuing state or foreign country.

����� (3) �Convention� means the Convention on the International Recovery of Child Support and Other Forms of Family Maintenance, concluded at The Hague on November 23, 2007.

����� (4) �Duty of support� means an obligation imposed or imposable by law to provide support for a child, spouse or former spouse, including an unsatisfied obligation to provide support.

����� (5) �Foreign country� means a country, or a political subdivision of a country, other than the United States, that authorizes the issuance of support orders and:

����� (a) That has been declared under the law of the United States to be a foreign reciprocating country;

����� (b) That has established a reciprocal arrangement for child support with this state as provided in ORS 110.563;

����� (c) That has enacted a law or established procedures for the issuance and enforcement of support orders that are substantially similar to the procedures under this chapter; or

����� (d) In which the Convention is in force with respect to the United States.

����� (6) �Foreign support order� means a support order of a foreign tribunal.

����� (7) �Foreign tribunal� means a court, administrative agency or quasi-judicial entity of a foreign country that is authorized to establish, enforce or modify support orders or to determine parentage of a child. �Foreign tribunal� includes a competent authority under the Convention.

����� (8) �Home state� means the state or foreign country in which a child lived with a parent or a person acting as parent for at least six consecutive months immediately preceding the time of filing of a petition or comparable pleading for support and, if a child is less than six months old, the state or foreign country in which the child lived from birth with the parent or person acting as parent. A period of temporary absence of the child, parent or person acting as parent is counted as part of the six-month or other period.

����� (9) �Income� includes earnings or other periodic entitlements to money from any source and any other property subject to withholding for support under the law of this state.

����� (10) �Income withholding order� means an order or other legal process directed to an obligor�s employer or other debtor issued pursuant to ORS 25.372 to 25.427 to withhold support from the income of the obligor.

����� (11) �Initiating tribunal� means the tribunal of a state or foreign country from which a petition or comparable pleading is forwarded or in which a petition or comparable pleading is filed for forwarding to another state or foreign country.

����� (12) �Issuing foreign country� means the foreign country in which a tribunal issues a support order or a judgment determining parentage of a child.

����� (13) �Issuing state� means the state in which a tribunal issues a support order or a judgment determining parentage of a child.

����� (14) �Issuing tribunal� means the tribunal of a state or foreign country that issues a support order or a judgment determining parentage of a child.

����� (15) �Law� includes decisional and statutory law and rules and regulations having the force of law.

����� (16) �Obligee� means:

����� (a) An individual to whom a duty of support is or is alleged to be owed or in whose favor a support order or a judgment determining parentage of a child has been issued;

����� (b) A foreign country, state or political subdivision of a state to which the rights under a duty of support or support order have been assigned or which has independent claims based on financial assistance provided to an individual obligee in place of child support;

����� (c) An individual seeking a judgment determining parentage of the individual�s child; or

����� (d) A person that is a creditor in a proceeding under ORS 110.645 to 110.669.

����� (17) �Obligor� means an individual, or the estate of a decedent, that:

����� (a) Owes or is alleged to owe a duty of support;

����� (b) Is alleged but has not been adjudicated to be a parent of a child;

����� (c) Is liable under a support order; or

����� (d) Is a debtor in a proceeding under ORS 110.645 to 110.669.

����� (18) �Outside this state� means a location in another state or a country other than the United States, whether or not the country is a foreign country.

����� (19) �Person� means an individual, corporation, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, limited liability company, association, joint venture, public corporation, government, governmental subdivision, agency, instrumentality or any other legal or commercial entity.

����� (20) �Record� means information that is inscribed on a tangible medium or that is stored in an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in perceivable form.

����� (21) �Register� means to file in a tribunal of this state a support order or judgment determining parentage of a child issued in another state or a foreign country.

����� (22) �Registering tribunal� means a tribunal in which a support order or judgment determining parentage of a child is registered.

����� (23) �Responding state� means a state in which a petition or comparable pleading for support or to determine parentage of a child is filed or to which a petition or comparable pleading is forwarded for filing from another state or a foreign country.

����� (24) �Responding tribunal� means the authorized tribunal in a responding state or foreign country.

����� (25) �Spousal support order� means a support order for a spouse or former spouse of the obligor.

����� (26) �State� means a state of the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, any territory or insular possession under the jurisdiction of the United States or an Indian nation or tribe.

����� (27) �Support enforcement agency� means a public official, governmental entity or private agency authorized to:

����� (a) Seek enforcement of support orders or laws relating to the duty of support;

����� (b) Seek establishment or modification of child support;

����� (c) Request determination of parentage of a child;

����� (d) Attempt to locate obligors or their assets; or

����� (e) Request determination of the controlling child support order.

����� (28) �Support order� means a judgment, decree, order, decision or directive, whether temporary, final or subject to modification, issued in a state or foreign country for the benefit of a child, a spouse or a former spouse, that provides for monetary support, health care, arrearages, retroactive support or reimbursement for financial assistance provided to an individual obligee in place of child support. The term may include related costs and fees, interest, income withholding, automatic adjustment, reasonable attorney fees and other relief.

����� (29) �Tribunal� means a court, administrative agency or quasi-judicial entity authorized to establish, enforce or modify support orders or to determine parentage of a child. [2015 c.298 �3]

����� 110.504 Tribunal of state. (1) The tribunals of this state are the circuit court, the administrator as defined in ORS 25.010, the Department of Justice or an administrative law judge of the Employment Department, as appropriate.

����� (2) The Division of Child Support of the Department of Justice is the support enforcement agency of this state. [2015 c.298 �4]

����� 110.505 Remedies cumulative; limitations. (1) Remedies provided by this chapter are cumulative and do not affect the availability of remedies under other law or the recognition of a foreign support order on the basis of comity.

����� (2) This chapter does not:

����� (a) Provide the exclusive method of establishing or enforcing a support order under the law of this state; or

����� (b) Grant a tribunal of this state jurisdiction to render judgment or issue an order relating to child custody or visitation in a proceeding under this chapter. [2015 c.298 �5]

����� 110.510 Application to certain support proceedings. (1) A tribunal of this state shall apply ORS 110.500 to 110.641 and, as applicable, ORS 110.645 to 110.669 to a support proceeding involving:

����� (a) A foreign support order;

����� (b) A foreign tribunal; or

����� (c) 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 ORS