Maine Revised Statutes Title 19-A Sec. 3010-A – Duties of the department as the state information agency
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1. State information agency. The department is the state information agency.
[PL 2009, c. 95, §44 (NEW); PL 2009, c. 95, §87 (AFF).]
Terms Used In Maine Revised Statutes Title 19-A Sec. 3010-A
- Department: means the Department of Health and Human Services and its agents and authorized representatives. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 19-A Sec. 101
- Foreign country: means a country, including a political subdivision thereof, other than the United States, that under its law authorizes the issuance of support orders and:
A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 19-A Sec. 2802Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases. Law: includes decisional and statutory law and rules and regulations having the force of law. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 19-A Sec. 2802 Obligee: means :
A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 19-A Sec. 2802Obligor: means an individual or the estate of a decedent:
A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 19-A Sec. 2802Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land. 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 foreign country. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 19-A Sec. 2802 state: includes an Indian nation or tribe. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 19-A Sec. 2802 Tribunal: means a court, administrative agency or quasi-judicial entity authorized to establish, enforce or modify support orders or to determine parentage. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 19-A Sec. 2802
2. Duties. The state information agency shall:
A. Compile and maintain a current list, including addresses, of the tribunals in this State that have jurisdiction under this chapter and the department and transmit a copy to the state information agency of every other state; [PL 2009, c. 95, §44 (NEW); PL 2009, c. 95, §87 (AFF).]
B. Maintain a register of the names and addresses of tribunals and support enforcement agencies received from other states; [PL 2009, c. 95, §44 (NEW); PL 2009, c. 95, §87 (AFF).]
C. Forward to the appropriate tribunal in the state in which the obligee who is an individual or the obligor resides, or in which the obligor’s property is believed to be located, all documents concerning a proceeding under this chapter received from another state or a foreign country; and [PL 2009, c. 95, §44 (NEW); PL 2009, c. 95, §87 (AFF).]
D. Obtain information concerning the location of the obligor and the obligor’s property within this State not exempt from execution, by such means as postal verification and federal or state locator services, examination of telephone directories, requests for the obligor’s address from employers and examination of governmental records, including, to the extent not prohibited by other law, those relating to real property, vital statistics, law enforcement, taxation, motor vehicles, driver’s licenses and social security. [PL 2009, c. 95, §44 (NEW); PL 2009, c. 95, §87 (AFF).]
[PL 2009, c. 95, §44 (NEW); PL 2009, c. 95, §87 (AFF).]
SECTION HISTORY
PL 2009, c. 95, §44 (NEW). PL 2009, c. 95, §87 (AFF).