(1) The Office of Recovery Services is the state information agency under this chapter.

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Terms Used In Utah Code 78B-14-310

  • Foreign country: means a country, including a political subdivision thereof, other than the United States, that authorizes the issuance of support orders and:
         (5)(a) which has been declared under the law of the United States to be a foreign reciprocating country;
         (5)(b) which has established a reciprocal arrangement for child support with this state as provided in Section 78B-14-308;
         (5)(c) which has enacted a law or established procedures for the issuance and enforcement of support orders which are substantially similar to the procedures under this chapter; or
         (5)(d) in which the convention is in force with respect to the United States. See Utah Code 78B-14-102
  • Jurisdiction: (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 Utah Code 78B-14-102
  • Obligee: means :
         (16)(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;
         (16)(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;
         (16)(c) an individual seeking a judgment determining parentage of the individual's child; or
         (16)(d) a person who is a creditor in a proceeding under Part 7, Support Proceedings Under Convention. See Utah Code 78B-14-102
  • Obligor: means an individual who, or the estate of a decedent that:
         (17)(a) owes or is alleged to owe a duty of support;
         (17)(b) is alleged but has not been adjudicated to be a parent of a child;
         (17)(c) is liable under a support order; or
         (17)(d) is a debtor in a proceeding under Part 7, Support Proceedings Under Convention. See Utah Code 78B-14-102
  • Property: includes both real and personal property. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
  • 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. See Utah Code 78B-14-102
  • 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 Utah Code 78B-14-102
  • 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 Utah Code 78B-14-102
(2) The state information agency shall:

     (2)(a) compile and maintain a current list, including addresses, of the tribunals in this state which have jurisdiction under this chapter and any support enforcement agencies in this state and transmit a copy to the state information agency of every other state;
     (2)(b) maintain a register of names and addresses of tribunals and support enforcement agencies received from other states;
     (2)(c) forward to the appropriate tribunal in the county in this 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
     (2)(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 law, those relating to real property, vital statistics, law enforcement, taxation, motor vehicles, driver licenses, and Social Security.