Arizona Laws 25-1302. Procedure to register order 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:
Terms Used In Arizona Laws 25-1302
- Foreign support order: means a support order of a foreign tribunal. See Arizona Laws 25-1202
- including: means not limited to and is not a term of exclusion. See Arizona Laws 1-215
- Income: includes earnings or other periodic entitlements to money from any source and any other property subject to withholding for support under the laws of this state. See Arizona Laws 25-1202
- Law: includes decisional and statutory law and rules and regulations having the force of law. See Arizona Laws 25-1202
- Obligee: means any of the following:
(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. See Arizona Laws 25-1202
- Obligor: means an individual or the estate of a decedent that meets any of the following conditions:
(a) Owes or is alleged to owe a duty of support. See Arizona Laws 25-1202
- Person: means an individual, corporation, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, limited liability company, association, joint venture, public corporation, government or governmental subdivision, agency or instrumentality, or any other legal or commercial entity. See Arizona Laws 25-1202
- Petition: includes a complaint. See Arizona Laws 25-1202
- Property: includes both real and personal property. See Arizona Laws 1-215
- Registering tribunal: means a tribunal in which a support order or a judgment determining parentage of a child is registered. See Arizona Laws 25-1202
- State: means a state of the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands or any territory or insular possession subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. See Arizona Laws 25-1202
- 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. See Arizona Laws 25-1202
- 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. See Arizona Laws 25-1202
1. A letter of transmittal to the tribunal requesting registration and enforcement.
2. Two copies, including one certified copy, of the order to be registered, including any modification of the order.
3. A sworn statement by the person requesting registration or a certified statement by the custodian of the records showing the amount of any arrearage.
4. The name of the obligor and, if known:
(a) The obligor’s address and social security number. The obligor’s social security number may be redacted and filed separately pursuant to section 25-501, subsection G.
(b) The name and address of the obligor’s employer and any other source of income of the obligor.
(c) A description and the location of property of the obligor in this state not exempt from execution.
5. Except as otherwise provided in section 25-1252, the name and address of the obligee and, if applicable, the person to whom support payments are to be remitted.
B. On receipt of a request for registration, the registering tribunal shall cause the order to be filed as an order of a tribunal of another state or a foreign support order, together with one copy of the documents and information, regardless of their form.
C. A petition or comparable pleading seeking a remedy that must be affirmatively sought under other law of this state may be filed at the same time as the request for registration or later. The pleading must specify the grounds for the remedy sought.
D. If two or more orders are in effect, the person requesting registration shall:
1. Furnish to the tribunal a copy of every support order asserted to be in effect in addition to the documents specified in this section.
2. Specify the order alleged to be the controlling order, if any.
3. Specify the amount of consolidated arrears, if any.
E. A request for a determination of which is the controlling order may be filed separately or with a request for registration and enforcement or for registration and modification. The person requesting registration shall give notice of the request to each party whose rights may be affected by the determination.