Okla. Stat. tit. 43 § 601-704

Current through Laws 2024, c. 453.

Section 601-704 - Duties of Department of Human Services

A. In a support proceeding under this article, the Oklahoma Department of Human Services of this state shall:

1. Transmit and receive applications; and

2. Initiate or facilitate the institution of a proceeding regarding an application in a tribunal of this state.

B. The following support proceedings are available to an obligee under the Convention:

1. Recognition or recognition and enforcement of a foreign support order;

2. Enforcement of a support order issued or recognized in this state;

3. Establishment of a support order if there is no existing order, including, if necessary, determination of parentage of a child;

4. Establishment of a support order if recognition of a foreign support order is refused under paragraphs 2, 4 or 9 of subsection B of Section 601-708 of this title;

5. Modification of a support order of a tribunal of this state; and

6. Modification of a support order of a tribunal of another state or a foreign country.

C. The following support proceedings are available under the convention to an obligor against which there is an existing support order:

1. Recognition of an order suspending or limiting enforcement of an existing support order of a tribunal of this state;

2. Modification of a support order of a tribunal of this state; and

3. Modification of a support order of a tribunal of another state or a foreign country.

D. A tribunal of this state may not require security, bond or deposit, however described, to guarantee the payment of costs and expenses in proceedings under the convention.

Okla. Stat. tit. 43, § 601-704

Amended by Laws 2016 , c. 148, s. 25, eff. 11/1/2016.

Added by Laws 2015 , c. 104, s. 55, eff. 11/1/2015.