P.R. Laws tit. 8, § 529a
(1) The Administrator is hereby authorized to approve the rules and regulations needed to establish an expeditious administrative procedure to enforce the child support obligations in interstate cases, when Puerto Rico is the initiating or appealed state and the use of the provisions of this section is more expeditious than the procedure established by the “Uniform Family Support Act”.
(2) In responding to a petition under this section, the Administrator must take the proper steps to enforce the child support obligations within ninety (90) days after receipt of the petition and shall appraise the initiating state accordingly. The Administration, when Puerto Rico is the initiating state, shall file a similar petition for expedited actions to ascertain the enforcement of interstate child support obligations.
(3) When the Administration receives an interstate petition pursuant to this section, it must take the corresponding steps to identify, attach assets or withhold income of the obligor, according to the provisions of § 506(2) of this title.
(4) The interstate petition filed pursuant to this section may be transmitted through electronic or other means and must contain sufficient information to establish a comparison with the databases maintained by the Administration and other Title IV-D agencies. This shall constitute a certification of the petitioning state concerning the indebted amount of child support and of the fact that the latter has complied with the due legal proceedings.
(5) The petitions executed as provided in this section shall not be deemed to enable the transfer of a case to the accumulation of Title IV-D cases of another state. However, the Administration must maintain a record of the number of petitions received, the number of cases which generated collections and the amount of monies collected.
History —Dec. 10, 1986, No. 5, p. 887, added as art. VII, § 32 on Dec. 18, 1997, No. 169, § 26.