North Dakota Code 14-12.2-47.4 – (704) Initiation by department of health and human services of support proceeding under convention
1. In a support proceeding under the convention, the department of health and human services of this state shall:
Terms Used In North Dakota Code 14-12.2-47.4
- following: when used by way of reference to a chapter or other part of a statute means the next preceding or next following chapter or other part. See North Dakota Code 1-01-49
- State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See North Dakota Code 1-01-49
a. Transmit and receive applications; and
b. Initiate or facilitate the institution of a proceeding regarding an application in a tribunal of this state.
2. The following support proceedings are available to an obligee under the convention:
a. Recognition or recognition and enforcement of a foreign support order; b. Enforcement of a support order issued or recognized in this state; c. Establishment of a support order if there is no existing order, including, where necessary, determination of parentage of a child; d. Establishment of a support order if recognition of a foreign support order is refused under subdivision b, d, or i of subsection 2 of section 14-12.2-47.8; e. Modification of a support order of a tribunal of this state; and
f. Modification of a support order of a tribunal of another state or foreign country.
3. The following support proceedings are available under the convention to an obligor against whom there is an existing support order:
a. Recognition of an order suspending or limiting enforcement of an existing support order of a tribunal of this state; b. Modification of a support order of a tribunal of this state; and
c. Modification of a support order of a tribunal of another state or foreign country.