1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to families; updating the Uniform Interstate Family Support Act;
1.3 	amending Minnesota Statutes 2010, sections 518C.101; 518C.102; 518C.103; 
1.4 	518C.201; 518C.202; 518C.203; 518C.204; 518C.205; 518C.206; 518C.207; 
1.5 	518C.208; 518C.209; 518C.301; 518C.303; 518C.304; 518C.305; 518C.306; 
1.6 	518C.307; 518C.308; 518C.310; 518C.311; 518C.312; 518C.313; 518C.314; 
1.7 	518C.316; 518C.317; 518C.318; 518C.319; 518C.401; 518C.501; 518C.503; 
1.8 	518C.504; 518C.505; 518C.506; 518C.508; 518C.601; 518C.602; 518C.603; 
1.9 	518C.604; 518C.605; 518C.606; 518C.607; 518C.608; 518C.609; 518C.610; 
1.10 	518C.611; 518C.612; 518C.613; 518C.701; 518C.801; 518C.902; proposing 
1.11 	coding for new law in Minnesota Statutes, chapter 518C; repealing Minnesota 
1.12 	Statutes 2010, section 518C.502.
1.13 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.14 	Section 1. Minnesota Statutes 2010, section 518C.101, is amended to read:
1.15 	518C.101 DEFINITIONS.
1.16 	In this chapter:
1.17 	(a) "Child" means an individual, whether over or under the age of majority, who is 
1.18 	or is alleged to be owed a duty of support by the individual's parent or who is or is alleged 
1.19 	to be the beneficiary of a support order directed to the parent.
1.20 	(b) "Child support order" means a support order for a child, including a child who 
1.21 	has attained the age of majority under the law of the issuing state or foreign country.
1.22 	(c) "Convention" means the Convention on the International Recovery of Child 
1.23 	Support and Other Forms of Family Maintenance, concluded at The Hague on November 
1.24 	23, 2007.
1.25 	(d) "Duty of support" means an obligation imposed or imposable by law to provide 
1.26 	support for a child, spouse, or former spouse, including an unsatisfied obligation to 
1.27 	provide support.
2.1 	(e) "Foreign country" means a country, including a political subdivision thereof, 
2.2 	other than the United States, that authorizes the issuance of support orders and:
2.3 	(1) that has been declared under the law of the United States to be a foreign 
2.4 	reciprocating country;
2.5 	(2) that has established a reciprocal arrangement for child support with this state 
2.6 	as provided in section 518C.308;
2.7 	(3) that has enacted a law or established procedures for the issuance and enforcement 
2.8 	of support orders which are substantially similar to the procedures under this chapter; or
2.9 	(4) in which the convention is in force with respect to the United States.
2.10 	(f) "Foreign support order" means a support order of a foreign tribunal.
2.11 	(g) "Foreign tribunal" means a court, administrative agency, or quasi-judicial entity 
2.12 	of a foreign country which is authorized to establish, enforce, or modify support orders 
2.13 	or to determine parentage of a child. The term includes a competent authority under 
2.14 	the convention.
2.15 	(d) (h) "Home state" means the state or foreign country in which a child lived with 
2.16 	a parent or a person acting as parent for at least six consecutive months immediately 
2.17 	preceding the time of filing of a petition or comparable pleading for support and, if a 
2.18 	child is less than six months old, the state or foreign country in which the child lived 
2.19 	from birth with any of them. A period of temporary absence of any of them is counted 
2.20 	as part of the six-month or other period.
2.21 	(e) (i) "Income" includes earnings or other periodic entitlements to money from any 
2.22 	source and any other property subject to withholding for support under the law of this state.
2.23 	(f) (j) "Income-withholding order" means an order or other legal process directed 
2.24 	to an obligor's employer or other debtor under section 518A.53, to withhold support 
2.25 	from the income of the obligor.
2.26 	(g) "Initiating state" means a state from which a proceeding is forwarded or in which 
2.27 	a proceeding is filed for forwarding to a responding state under this chapter or a law or 
2.28 	procedure substantially similar to this chapter, or under a law or procedure substantially 
2.29 	similar to the Uniform Reciprocal Enforcement of Support Act or the Revised Uniform 
2.30 	Reciprocal Enforcement of Support Act.
2.31 	(h) (k) "Initiating tribunal" means the authorized tribunal in an initiating of a state. or 
2.32 	foreign country from which a petition or comparable pleading is forwarded or in which a 
2.33 	petition or comparable pleading is filed for forwarding to another state or foreign country.
2.34 	(l) "Issuing foreign country" means the foreign country in which a tribunal issues a 
2.35 	support order or a judgment determining parentage of a child.
3.1 	(i) (m) "Issuing state" means the state in which a tribunal issues a support order or 
3.2 	renders a judgment determining parentage of a child.
3.3 	(j) (n) "Issuing tribunal" means the tribunal of a state or foreign country that issues a 
3.4 	support order or renders a judgment determining parentage of a child.
3.5 	(k) (o) "Law" includes decisional and statutory law and rules and regulations having 
3.6 	the force of law.
3.7 	(l) (p) "Obligee" means:
3.8 	(1) an individual to whom a duty of support is or is alleged to be owed or in whose 
3.9 	favor a support order has been issued or a judgment determining parentage of a child has 
3.10 	been rendered issued;
3.11 	(2) a foreign country, state, or political subdivision of a state to which the rights under 
3.12 	a duty of support or support order have been assigned or which has independent claims 
3.13 	based on financial assistance provided to an individual obligee in place of child support; or
3.14 	(3) an individual seeking a judgment determining parentage of the individual's 
3.15 	child.; or
3.16 	(4) a person that is a creditor in a proceeding under sections 518C.701 to 518C.713.
3.17 	(m) (q) "Obligor" means an individual, or the estate of a decedent that:
3.18 	(1) who owes or is alleged to owe a duty of support;
3.19 	(2) who is alleged but has not been adjudicated to be a parent of a child; or
3.20 	(3) who is liable under a support order.; or
3.21 	(4) is a debtor in a proceeding under section 518C.701 to 518C.713.
3.22 	(r) "Outside this state" means a location in another state or a country other than the 
3.23 	United States, whether or not the country is a foreign country.
3.24 	(s) "Person" means an individual, corporation, business trust, estate, trust, 
3.25 	partnership, limited liability company, association, joint venture, public corporation, 
3.26 	government or governmental subdivision, agency, or instrumentality, or any other legal or 
3.27 	commercial entity.
3.28 	(t) "Record" means information that is inscribed on a tangible medium or that is 
3.29 	stored in an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in perceivable form.
3.30 	(n) (u) "Register" means to file in a tribunal of this state a support order or judgment 
3.31 	determining parentage in the office of the court administrator of a child issued in another 
3.32 	state or a foreign country.
3.33 	(o) (v) "Registering tribunal" means a tribunal in which a support order or judgment 
3.34 	determining parentage of a child is registered.
3.35 	(p) (w) "Responding state" means a state in which a proceeding petition or 
3.36 	comparable pleading for support or to determine parentage of a child is filed or to which 
4.1 	a proceeding petition or comparable pleading is forwarded for filing from an initiating
4.2 	another state under this chapter or a law or procedure substantially similar to this chapter, 
4.3 	or under a law or procedure substantially similar to the Uniform Reciprocal Enforcement 
4.4 	of Support Act or the Revised Uniform Reciprocal Enforcement of Support Act or a 
4.5 	foreign country.
4.6 	(q) (x) "Responding tribunal" means the authorized tribunal in a responding state
4.7 	or foreign country.
4.8 	(r) (y) "Spousal support order" means a support order for a spouse or former spouse 
4.9 	of the obligor.
4.10 	(s) (z) "State" means a state of the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto 
4.11 	Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, or any territory or insular possession subject to
4.12 	under the jurisdiction of the United States. "State" includes:
4.13 	(1) an Indian nation or tribe; and.
4.14 	(2) a foreign jurisdiction that has enacted a law or established procedures for 
4.15 	issuance and enforcement of support orders that are substantially similar to the procedures 
4.16 	under this chapter or the procedures under the Uniform Reciprocal Enforcement of 
4.17 	Support Act or the Revised Uniform Reciprocal Enforcement of Support Act.
4.18 	(t) (aa) "Support enforcement agency" means a public official, governmental entity,
4.19 	or private agency authorized to:
4.20 	(1) seek enforcement of support orders or laws relating to the duty of support;
4.21 	(2) seek establishment or modification of child support;
4.22 	(3) seek request determination of parentage of a child; or
4.23 	(4) attempt to locate obligors or their assets; or
4.24 	(5) request determination of the controlling child support order.
4.25 	(u) (bb) "Support order" means a judgment, decree, or order, decision, or directive 
4.26 	whether temporary, final, or subject to modification, issued in a state or foreign country for 
4.27 	the benefit of a child, spouse, or former spouse, which provides for monetary support, 
4.28 	health care, arrearages, retroactive support, or reimbursement, and for financial assistance 
4.29 	provided to an individual obligee in place of child support. The term may include related 
4.30 	costs and fees, interest, income withholding, automatic adjustment, reasonable attorney's 
4.31 	fees, and other relief.
4.32 	(v) (cc) "Tribunal" means a court, administrative agency, or quasi-judicial entity 
4.33 	authorized to establish, enforce, or modify support orders or to determine parentage of a 
4.34 	child.

5.1 	Sec. 2. Minnesota Statutes 2010, section 518C.102, is amended to read:
5.2 	518C.102 STATE TRIBUNAL OF THIS STATE AND SUPPORT 
5.3 	ENFORCEMENT AGENCY.
5.4 	(a) A court, administrative agency, or quasi-judicial entity authorized to establish, 
5.5 	enforce, or modify support orders or to determine parentage of a child are tribunals of 
5.6 	this state.
5.7 	(b) The Department of Human Services and county enforcement agencies are the 
5.8 	support enforcement agencies of this state.

5.9 	Sec. 3. Minnesota Statutes 2010, section 518C.103, is amended to read:
5.10 	518C.103 REMEDIES CUMULATIVE.
5.11 	(a) Remedies provided by this chapter are cumulative and do not affect the 
5.12 	availability of remedies under other law or the recognition of a foreign support order on 
5.13 	the basis of comity.
5.14 	(b) This chapter does not:
5.15 	(1) provide the exclusive method of establishing or enforcing a support order under 
5.16 	the law of this state; or
5.17 	(2) grant a tribunal of this state jurisdiction to render judgment or issue an order 
5.18 	relating to child custody or parenting time in a proceeding under this chapter.

5.19 	Sec. 4. [518C.105] APPLICATION OF CHAPTER TO RESIDENT OF 
5.20 	FOREIGN COUNTRY AND FOREIGN SUPPORT PROCEEDING.
5.21 	(a) A tribunal of this state shall apply sections 518C.101 to 518C.616 and, as 
5.22 	applicable, sections 518C.701 to 518C.713, to a support proceeding involving:
5.23 	(1) a foreign support order;
5.24 	(2) a foreign tribunal; or
5.25 	(3) an obligee, obligor, or child residing in a foreign country.
5.26 	(b) A tribunal of this state that is requested to recognize and enforce a support order 
5.27 	on the basis of comity may apply the procedural and substantive provisions of sections 
5.28 	518C.101 to 518C.616.
5.29 	(c) Sections 518C.701 to 518C.713 apply only to a support proceeding under the 
5.30 	convention. In such a proceeding, if a provision of sections 518C.701 to 518C.713 is 
5.31 	inconsistent with sections 518C.101 to 518C.616, sections 518C.701 to 518C.713 control.

6.1 	Sec. 5. Minnesota Statutes 2010, section 518C.201, is amended to read:
6.2 	518C.201 BASES FOR JURISDICTION OVER NONRESIDENT.
6.3 	(a) In a proceeding to establish, enforce, or modify a support order or to determine 
6.4 	parentage of a child, a tribunal of this state may exercise personal jurisdiction over a 
6.5 	nonresident individual or the individual's guardian or conservator if:
6.6 	(1) the individual is personally served with a summons or comparable document 
6.7 	within this state;
6.8 	(2) the individual submits to the jurisdiction of this state by consent, by entering a 
6.9 	general appearance, or by filing a responsive document having the effect of waiving any 
6.10 	contest to personal jurisdiction;
6.11 	(3) the individual resided with the child in this state;
6.12 	(4) the individual resided in this state and provided prenatal expenses or support 
6.13 	for the child;
6.14 	(5) the child resides in this state as a result of the acts or directives of the individual;
6.15 	(6) the individual engaged in sexual intercourse in this state and the child may have 
6.16 	been conceived by that act of intercourse;
6.17 	(7) the individual asserted parentage of a child under sections 257.51 to 257.75; or 
6.18 	(8) there is any other basis consistent with the constitutions of this state and the 
6.19 	United States for the exercise of personal jurisdiction.
6.20 	(b) The bases of personal jurisdiction in paragraph (a) or in any other law of this state 
6.21 	may not be used to acquire personal jurisdiction for a tribunal of this state to modify a child 
6.22 	support order of another state unless the requirements of section 518C.611 are met, or, in 
6.23 	the case of a foreign support order, unless the requirements of section 518C.615 are met.

6.24 	Sec. 6. Minnesota Statutes 2010, section 518C.202, is amended to read:
6.25 	518C.202 PROCEDURE WHEN EXERCISINGDURATION OF PERSONAL 
6.26 	JURISDICTION OVER NONRESIDENT.
6.27 	A tribunal of this state exercising personal jurisdiction over a nonresident under 
6.28 	section 518C.201 may apply section 518C.316 to receive evidence from another state, 
6.29 	and section 518C.318 to obtain discovery through a tribunal of another state. In all other 
6.30 	respects, sections 518C.301 to 518C.701 do not apply and the tribunal shall apply the 
6.31 	procedural and substantive law of this state, including the rules on choice of law other 
6.32 	than those established by this chapter.Personal jurisdiction acquired by a tribunal of this 
6.33 	state in a proceeding under this chapter or other law of this state relating to a support 
6.34 	order continues as long as a tribunal of this state has continuing, exclusive jurisdiction 
7.1 	to modify its order or continuing jurisdiction to enforce its order as provided by sections 
7.2 	518C.205, 518C.206, and 518C.211.

7.3 	Sec. 7. Minnesota Statutes 2010, section 518C.203, is amended to read:
7.4 	518C.203 INITIATING AND RESPONDING TRIBUNAL OF THIS STATE.
7.5 	Under this chapter, a tribunal of this state may serve as an initiating tribunal to 
7.6 	forward proceedings to a tribunal of another state and as a responding tribunal for 
7.7 	proceedings initiated in another state or a foreign country.

7.8 	Sec. 8. Minnesota Statutes 2010, section 518C.204, is amended to read:
7.9 	518C.204 SIMULTANEOUS PROCEEDINGS IN ANOTHER STATE.
7.10 	(a) A tribunal of this state may exercise jurisdiction to establish a support order if the 
7.11 	petition or comparable pleading is filed after a petition or comparable pleading is filed in 
7.12 	another state or a foreign country only if:
7.13 	(1) the petition or comparable pleading in this state is filed before the expiration of 
7.14 	the time allowed in the other state or the foreign country for filing a responsive pleading 
7.15 	challenging the exercise of jurisdiction by the other state or the foreign country;
7.16 	(2) the contesting party timely challenges the exercise of jurisdiction in the other 
7.17 	state or the foreign country; and
7.18 	(3) if relevant, this state is the home state of the child.
7.19 	(b) A tribunal of this state may not exercise jurisdiction to establish a support order 
7.20 	if the petition or comparable pleading is filed before a petition or comparable pleading is 
7.21 	filed in another state or a foreign country if:
7.22 	(1) the petition or comparable pleading in the other state or foreign country is filed 
7.23 	before the expiration of the time allowed in this state for filing a responsive pleading 
7.24 	challenging the exercise of jurisdiction by this state;
7.25 	(2) the contesting party timely challenges the exercise of jurisdiction in this state; and
7.26 	(3) if relevant, the other state or foreign country is the home state of the child.

7.27 	Sec. 9. Minnesota Statutes 2010, section 518C.205, is amended to read:
7.28 	518C.205 CONTINUING, EXCLUSIVE JURISDICTION TO MODIFY 
7.29 	CHILD SUPPORT ORDER.
7.30 	(a) A tribunal of this state issuing that has issued a support order consistent with the 
7.31 	law of this state has and shall exercise continuing, exclusive jurisdiction over a to modify 
7.32 	its child support order if the order is the controlling order and:
8.1 	(1) as long as at the time of the filing of a request for modification this state remains
8.2 	is the residence of the obligor, the individual obligee, or the child for whose benefit the 
8.3 	support order is issued; or
8.4 	(2) until all of the parties who are individuals have filed written consents with 
8.5 	the tribunal of this state for a tribunal of another state to modify the order and assume 
8.6 	continuing, exclusive jurisdiction. even if this state is not the residence of the obligor, the 
8.7 	individual obligee, or the child for whose benefit the support order is issued, the parties 
8.8 	consent in a record or in open court that the tribunal of this state may continue to exercise 
8.9 	jurisdiction to modify its order.
8.10 	(b) A tribunal of this state issuing that has issued a child support order consistent 
8.11 	with the law of this state may not exercise its continuing, exclusive jurisdiction to modify 
8.12 	the order if the order has been modified by a tribunal of another state pursuant to this 
8.13 	chapter or a law substantially similar to this chapter.:
8.14 	(1) all of the parties who are individuals file consent in a record with the tribunal of 
8.15 	this state that a tribunal of another state that has jurisdiction over at least one of the parties 
8.16 	who is an individual or that is located in the state of residence of the child may modify 
8.17 	the order and assume continuing, exclusive jurisdiction; or
8.18 	(2) its order is not the controlling order.
8.19 	(c) If a child support order tribunal of this another state is modified by a tribunal 
8.20 	of another state pursuant to this chapter or a law substantially similar to this chapter, a 
8.21 	tribunal of this state loses its continuing, exclusive jurisdiction with regard to prospective 
8.22 	enforcement of the order issued in this state, and may only: has issued a child support 
8.23 	order pursuant to this chapter or a law substantially similar to this chapter which modifies 
8.24 	a child support order of a tribunal of this state, tribunals of this state shall recognize the 
8.25 	continuing, exclusive jurisdiction of the tribunal of the other state.
8.26 	(1) enforce the order that was modified as to amounts accruing before the 
8.27 	modification;
8.28 	(2) enforce nonmodifiable aspects of that order; and
8.29 	(3) provide other appropriate relief for violations of that order which occurred before 
8.30 	the effective date of the modification.
8.31 	(d) A tribunal of this state shall recognize thethat lacks continuing, exclusive 
8.32 	jurisdiction of a tribunal of another state which has issued a child support order pursuant 
8.33 	to this chapter or a law substantially similar to this chapter. to modify a child support 
8.34 	order may serve as an initiating tribunal to request a tribunal of another state to modify a 
8.35 	support order issued in that state.
9.1 	(e) A temporary support order issued ex parte or pending resolution of a jurisdictional 
9.2 	conflict does not create continuing, exclusive jurisdiction in the issuing tribunal.
9.3 	(f) A tribunal of this state issuing a support order consistent with the law of this 
9.4 	state has continuing, exclusive jurisdiction over a spousal support order throughout the 
9.5 	existence of the support obligation. A tribunal of this state may not modify a spousal 
9.6 	support order issued by a tribunal of another state having continuing, exclusive jurisdiction 
9.7 	over that order under the law of that state.

9.8 	Sec. 10. Minnesota Statutes 2010, section 518C.206, is amended to read:
9.9 	518C.206 ENFORCEMENT AND MODIFICATION OF SUPPORT ORDER 
9.10 	BY TRIBUNAL HAVING CONTINUING JURISDICTION.
9.11 	(a) A tribunal of this state that has issued a child support order consistent with the 
9.12 	law of this state may serve as an initiating tribunal to request a tribunal of another state 
9.13 	to enforce or modify a support order issued in that state.:
9.14 	(1) the order if the order is the controlling order and has not been modified by 
9.15 	a tribunal of another state that assumed jurisdiction pursuant to this chapter or a law 
9.16 	substantially similar to this chapter; or
9.17 	(2) a money judgment for arrears of support and interest on the order accrued before 
9.18 	a determination that an order of a tribunal of another state is the controlling order.
9.19 	(b) A tribunal of this state having continuing, exclusive jurisdiction over a support 
9.20 	order may act as a responding tribunal to enforce or modify the order. If a party subject 
9.21 	to the continuing, exclusive jurisdiction of the tribunal no longer resides in the issuing 
9.22 	state, in subsequent proceedings the tribunal may apply section 518C.316 to receive 
9.23 	evidence from another state and section 518C.318 to obtain discovery through a tribunal 
9.24 	of another state. 
9.25 	(c) A tribunal of this state which lacks continuing, exclusive jurisdiction over a 
9.26 	spousal support order may not serve as a responding tribunal to modify a spousal support 
9.27 	order of another state.

9.28 	Sec. 11. Minnesota Statutes 2010, section 518C.207, is amended to read:
9.29 	518C.207 RECOGNITION OF CONTROLLING CHILD SUPPORT ORDER.
9.30 	(a) If a proceeding is brought under this chapter and only one tribunal has issued a 
9.31 	child support order, the order of that tribunal is controlling and must be recognized.
9.32 	(b) If a proceeding is brought under this chapter, and two or more child support 
9.33 	orders have been issued by tribunals of this state or, another state, or a foreign country
9.34 	with regard to the same obligor and child, a tribunal of this state having personal 
10.1 	jurisdiction over both the obligor and the individual obligee shall apply the following rules 
10.2 	in determiningand by order shall determine which order to recognize for purposes of 
10.3 	continuing, exclusive jurisdiction controls and must be recognized:
10.4 	(1) If only one of the tribunals would have continuing, exclusive jurisdiction under 
10.5 	this chapter, the order of that tribunal is controlling and must be recognized.
10.6 	(2) If more than one of the tribunals would have continuing, exclusive jurisdiction 
10.7 	under this chapter,:
10.8 	(i) an order issued by a tribunal in the current home state of the child must be 
10.9 	recognized, but controls; or
10.10 	(ii) if an order has not been issued in the current home state of the child, the order 
10.11 	most recently issued is controlling and must be recognized controls.
10.12 	(3) If none of the tribunals would have continuing, exclusive jurisdiction under this 
10.13 	chapter, the tribunal of this state having jurisdiction over the parties shall issue a child 
10.14 	support order, which is controlling and must be recognized controls.
10.15 	(c) If two or more child support orders have been issued for the same obligor and 
10.16 	child and if the obligor or the individual obligee resides in this state, a party may, upon
10.17 	request of a party who is an individual or that is a support enforcement agency, a tribunal 
10.18 	of this state tohaving personal jurisdiction over both the obligor and the obligee who is an 
10.19 	individual shall determine which order controls and must be recognized under paragraph 
10.20 	(b). The request may be filed with a registration for enforcement or registration for 
10.21 	modification pursuant to sections 518C.601 to 518C.616, or may be filed as a separate 
10.22 	proceeding.
10.23 	(d) A request to determine which is the controlling order must be accompanied by a 
10.24 	certified copy of every child support order in effect and the applicable record of payments. 
10.25 	The requesting party shall give notice of the request to each party whose rights may 
10.26 	be affected by the determination.
10.27 	(d) (e) The tribunal that issued the controlling order that must be recognized as 
10.28 	controlling under paragraph (a), (b), or (c) is the tribunal that has continuing, exclusive
10.29 	jurisdiction in accordance with to the extent provided in section 518C.205, or 518C.206. 
10.30 	(e) (f) A tribunal of this state which determines by order the identity of which is
10.31 	the controlling child support order under paragraph (b), clause (1) or (2), or paragraph 
10.32 	(c), or which issues a new controlling child support order under paragraph (b), clause (3), 
10.33 	shall include state in that order:
10.34 	(1) the basis upon which the tribunal made its determination.;
10.35 	(2) the amount of prospective support, if any; and
11.1 	(3) the total amount of consolidated arrears and accrued interest, if any, under all of 
11.2 	the orders after all payments made are credited as provided by section 518C.209.
11.3 	(f) (g) Within 30 days after issuance of the order determining the identity of which is
11.4 	the controlling order, the party obtaining that order shall file a certified copy of it with each 
11.5 	tribunal that had issued or registered an earlier order of child support. A party who obtains
11.6 	or support enforcement agency obtaining the order and that fails to file a certified copy is 
11.7 	subject to appropriate sanctions by a tribunal in which the issue of failure to file arises. 
11.8 	The failure to file does not affect the validity or enforceability of the controlling order.
11.9 	(h) An order that has been determined to be the controlling order, or a judgment for 
11.10 	consolidated arrears of support and interest, if any, made pursuant to this section must be 
11.11 	recognized in proceedings under this chapter.

11.12 	Sec. 12. Minnesota Statutes 2010, section 518C.208, is amended to read:
11.13 	518C.208 MULTIPLE CHILD SUPPORT ORDERS FOR TWO OR MORE 
11.14 	OBLIGEES.
11.15 	In responding to multiple registrations or petitions for enforcement of two or more 
11.16 	child support orders in effect at the same time with regard to the same obligor and different 
11.17 	individual obligees, at least one of which was issued by a tribunal of another state or a 
11.18 	foreign country, a tribunal of this state shall enforce those orders in the same manner as if 
11.19 	the multiple orders had been issued by a tribunal of this state.

11.20 	Sec. 13. Minnesota Statutes 2010, section 518C.209, is amended to read:
11.21 	518C.209 CREDIT FOR PAYMENTS.
11.22 	A tribunal of this state shall credit amounts collected and credited for a particular 
11.23 	period pursuant to a any child support order issued by a tribunal of another state must be 
11.24 	credited against the amounts accruing or accrued owed for the same period under a any 
11.25 	other child support order for the support of the same child issued by the tribunal of this 
11.26 	state, another state, or a foreign country.

11.27 	Sec. 14. [518C.210] APPLICATION TO NONRESIDENT SUBJECT TO 
11.28 	PERSONAL JURISDICTION.
11.29 	A tribunal of this state exercising personal jurisdiction over a nonresident in a 
11.30 	proceeding under this chapter, under other law of this state relating to a support order, or 
11.31 	recognizing a foreign support order may receive evidence from outside this state pursuant 
11.32 	to section 518C.316, communicate with a tribunal outside this state pursuant to section 
11.33 	518C.317, and obtain discovery through a tribunal outside this state pursuant to section 
12.1 	518C.318. In all other respects, sections 518C.301 to 518C.616 do not apply, and the 
12.2 	tribunal shall apply the procedural and substantive law of this state.

12.3 	Sec. 15. [518C.211] CONTINUING, EXCLUSIVE JURISDICTION TO MODIFY 
12.4 	SPOUSAL SUPPORT ORDER.
12.5 	(a) A tribunal of this state issuing a spousal support order consistent with the law 
12.6 	of this state has continuing, exclusive jurisdiction to modify the spousal support order 
12.7 	throughout the existence of the support obligation.
12.8 	(b) A tribunal of this state may not modify a spousal support order issued by a 
12.9 	tribunal of another state or a foreign country having continuing, exclusive jurisdiction over 
12.10 	that order under the law of that state or foreign country.
12.11 	(c) A tribunal of this state that has continuing, exclusive jurisdiction over a spousal 
12.12 	support order may serve as:
12.13 	(1) an initiating tribunal to request a tribunal of another state to enforce the spousal 
12.14 	support order issued in this state; or
12.15 	(2) a responding tribunal to enforce or modify its own spousal support order.

12.16 	Sec. 16. Minnesota Statutes 2010, section 518C.301, is amended to read:
12.17 	518C.301 PROCEEDINGS UNDER THIS CHAPTER.
12.18 	(a) Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, sections 518C.301 to 518C.319
12.19 	apply to all proceedings under this chapter. 
12.20 	(b) This chapter provides for the following proceedings:
12.21 	(1) establishment of an order for spousal support or child support pursuant to 
12.22 	section 518C.401; 
12.23 	(2) enforcement of a support order and income-withholding order of another state 
12.24 	or a foreign country without registration pursuant to sections 518C.501 and 518C.502; 
12.25 	(3) registration of an order for spousal support or child support of another state  or a 
12.26 	foreign country for enforcement pursuant to sections 518C.601 to 518C.612; 
12.27 	(4) modification of an order for child support or spousal support issued by a tribunal 
12.28 	of this state pursuant to sections 518C.203 to 518C.206; 
12.29 	(5) registration of an order for child support of another state or a foreign country for 
12.30 	modification pursuant to sections 518C.601 to 518C.612; 
12.31 	(6) determination of parentage of a child pursuant to section 518C.701; and 
12.32 	(7) assertion of jurisdiction over nonresidents pursuant to sections 518C.201 and 
12.33 	518C.202. 
13.1 	(c) An individual petitioner or a support enforcement agency may commence a 
13.2 	proceeding authorized under this chapter by filing a petition in an initiating tribunal for 
13.3 	forwarding to a responding tribunal or by filing a petition or a comparable pleading 
13.4 	directly in a tribunal of another state or a foreign country which has or can obtain personal 
13.5 	jurisdiction over the respondent.

13.6 	Sec. 17. Minnesota Statutes 2010, section 518C.303, is amended to read:
13.7 	518C.303 APPLICATION OF LAW OF THIS STATE.
13.8 	Except as otherwise provided by this chapter, a responding tribunal of this state shall:
13.9 	(1) shall apply the procedural and substantive law, including the rules on choice of 
13.10 	law, generally applicable to similar proceedings originating in this state and may exercise 
13.11 	all powers and provide all remedies available in those proceedings; and
13.12 	(2) shall determine the duty of support and the amount payable in accordance with 
13.13 	the law and support guidelines of this state.

13.14 	Sec. 18. Minnesota Statutes 2010, section 518C.304, is amended to read:
13.15 	518C.304 DUTIES OF INITIATING TRIBUNAL.
13.16 	(a) Upon the filing of a petition authorized by this chapter, an initiating tribunal of 
13.17 	this state shall forward three copies of the petition and its accompanying documents:
13.18 	(1) to the responding tribunal or appropriate support enforcement agency in the 
13.19 	responding state; or
13.20 	(2) if the identity of the responding tribunal is unknown, to the state information 
13.21 	agency of the responding state with a request that they be forwarded to the appropriate 
13.22 	tribunal and that receipt be acknowledged.
13.23 	(b) If a responding state has not enacted this chapter or a law or procedure 
13.24 	substantially similar to this chapter requested by the responding tribunal, a tribunal of this 
13.25 	state may shall issue a certificate or other documents and make findings required by the 
13.26 	law of the responding state. If the responding state tribunal is in a foreign jurisdiction
13.27 	country, the tribunal may of this state shall specify the amount of support sought, convert 
13.28 	that amount into the equivalent amount in the foreign currency under applicable official 
13.29 	or market exchange rate as publicly reported,  and provide other documents necessary to 
13.30 	satisfy the requirements of the responding state foreign tribunal.

13.31 	Sec. 19. Minnesota Statutes 2010, section 518C.305, is amended to read:
13.32 	518C.305 DUTIES AND POWERS OF RESPONDING TRIBUNAL.
14.1 	(a) When a responding tribunal of this state receives a petition or comparable 
14.2 	pleading from an initiating tribunal or directly pursuant to section 518C.301, paragraph 
14.3 	(c), it shall cause the petition or pleading to be filed and notify the petitioner where and 
14.4 	when it was filed. 
14.5 	(b) A responding tribunal of this state, to the extent otherwise authorized by law, 
14.6 	may do one or more of the following:
14.7 	(1) issue establish or enforce a support order, modify a child support order, determine 
14.8 	the controlling child support order, or render a judgment to determine parentage of a child;
14.9 	(2) order an obligor to comply with a support order, specifying the amount and 
14.10 	the manner of compliance;
14.11 	(3) order income withholding;
14.12 	(4) determine the amount of any arrearages, and specify a method of payment;
14.13 	(5) enforce orders by civil or criminal contempt, or both;
14.14 	(6) set aside property for satisfaction of the support order;
14.15 	(7) place liens and order execution on the obligor's property;
14.16 	(8) order an obligor to keep the tribunal informed of the obligor's current residential 
14.17 	address, electronic mail address, telephone number, employer, address of employment, 
14.18 	and telephone number at the place of employment;
14.19 	(9) issue a bench warrant for an obligor who has failed after proper notice to appear 
14.20 	at a hearing ordered by the tribunal and enter the bench warrant in any local and state 
14.21 	computer systems for criminal warrants;
14.22 	(10) order the obligor to seek appropriate employment by specified methods;
14.23 	(11) award reasonable attorney's fees and other fees and costs; and
14.24 	(12) grant any other available remedy.
14.25 	(c) A responding tribunal of this state shall include in a support order issued under 
14.26 	this chapter, or in the documents accompanying the order, the calculations on which 
14.27 	the support order is based.
14.28 	(d) A responding tribunal of this state may not condition the payment of a support 
14.29 	order issued under this chapter upon compliance by a party with provisions for visitation.
14.30 	(e) If a responding tribunal of this state issues an order under this chapter, the 
14.31 	tribunal shall send a copy of the order to the petitioner and the respondent and to the 
14.32 	initiating tribunal, if any.
14.33 	(f) If requested to enforce a support order, arrears, or judgment or modify a support 
14.34 	order stated in a foreign currency, a responding tribunal of this state shall convert the 
14.35 	amount stated in the foreign currency to the equivalent amount in dollars under the 
14.36 	applicable official or market exchange rate as publicly reported.

15.1 	Sec. 20. Minnesota Statutes 2010, section 518C.306, is amended to read:
15.2 	518C.306 INAPPROPRIATE TRIBUNAL.
15.3 	If a petition or comparable pleading is received by an inappropriate tribunal of 
15.4 	this state, it the tribunal shall forward the pleading and accompanying documents to 
15.5 	an appropriate tribunal in this state or another state and notify the petitioner where and 
15.6 	when the pleading was sent.

15.7 	Sec. 21. Minnesota Statutes 2010, section 518C.307, is amended to read:
15.8 	518C.307 DUTIES OF SUPPORT ENFORCEMENT AGENCY.
15.9 	(a) A support enforcement agency of this state, upon request, shall provide services 
15.10 	to a petitioner in a proceeding under this chapter.
15.11 	(b) A support enforcement agency that is providing services to the petitioner as 
15.12 	appropriate shall:
15.13 	(1) take all steps necessary to enable an appropriate tribunal in of this state or,
15.14 	another state, or a foreign country to obtain jurisdiction over the respondent;
15.15 	(2) request an appropriate tribunal to set a date, time, and place for a hearing;
15.16 	(3) make a reasonable effort to obtain all relevant information, including information 
15.17 	as to income and property of the parties;
15.18 	(4) within two days, exclusive of Saturdays, Sundays, and legal holidays, after 
15.19 	receipt of a written notice in a record from an initiating, responding, or registering tribunal, 
15.20 	send a copy of the notice to the petitioner;
15.21 	(5) within two days, exclusive of Saturdays, Sundays, and legal holidays, after 
15.22 	receipt of a written communication in a record from the respondent or the respondent's 
15.23 	attorney, send a copy of the communication to the petitioner; and
15.24 	(6) notify the petitioner if jurisdiction over the respondent cannot be obtained.
15.25 	(c) A support enforcement agency of this state that requests registration of a child 
15.26 	support order in this state for enforcement or for modification shall make reasonable 
15.27 	efforts:
15.28 	(1) to ensure that the order to be registered is the controlling order; or
15.29 	(2) if two or more child support orders exist and the identity of the controlling 
15.30 	order has not been determined, to ensure that a request for such a determination is made 
15.31 	in a tribunal having jurisdiction to do so.
15.32 	(d) A support enforcement agency of this state that requests registration and 
15.33 	enforcement of a support order, arrears, or judgment stated in a foreign currency shall 
15.34 	convert the amounts stated in the foreign currency into the equivalent amounts in dollars 
15.35 	under the applicable official or market exchange rate as publicly reported.
16.1 	(e) A support enforcement agency of this state shall request a tribunal of this state 
16.2 	to issue a child support order and an income-withholding order that redirect payment of 
16.3 	current support, arrears, and interest if requested to do so by a support enforcement agency 
16.4 	of another state pursuant to section 518C.319.
16.5 	(c) (f) This chapter does not create or negate a relationship of attorney and client or 
16.6 	other fiduciary relationship between a support enforcement agency or the attorney for the 
16.7 	agency and the individual being assisted by the agency.

16.8 	Sec. 22. Minnesota Statutes 2010, section 518C.308, is amended to read:
16.9 	518C.308 DUTY OF ATTORNEY GENERAL.
16.10 	(a) If the attorney general determines that the support enforcement agency is 
16.11 	neglecting or refusing to provide services to an individual, the attorney general may 
16.12 	order the agency to perform its duties under this chapter or may provide those services 
16.13 	directly to the individual.
16.14 	(b) The attorney general may determine that a foreign country has established a 
16.15 	reciprocal arrangement for child support with this state and take appropriate action for 
16.16 	notification of that determination.

16.17 	Sec. 23. Minnesota Statutes 2010, section 518C.310, is amended to read:
16.18 	518C.310 DUTIES OF STATE INFORMATION AGENCY.
16.19 	(a) The unit within the Department of Human Services that receives and disseminates 
16.20 	incoming interstate actions under title IV-D of the Social Security Act is the State 
16.21 	Information Agency under this chapter.
16.22 	(b) The State Information Agency shall:
16.23 	(1) compile and maintain a current list, including addresses, of the tribunals in this 
16.24 	state which have jurisdiction under this chapter and any support enforcement agencies in 
16.25 	this state and transmit a copy to the state information agency of every other state;
16.26 	(2) maintain a register of tribunals and support enforcement agencies received from 
16.27 	other states;
16.28 	(3) forward to the appropriate tribunal in the place in this state in which the 
16.29 	individual obligee or the obligor resides, or in which the obligor's property is believed 
16.30 	to be located, all documents concerning a proceeding under this chapter received from 
16.31 	an initiating tribunal or the state information agency of the initiating another state or a 
16.32 	foreign country; and
16.33 	(4) obtain information concerning the location of the obligor and the obligor's 
16.34 	property within this state not exempt from execution, by such means as postal verification 
17.1 	and federal or state locator services, examination of telephone directories, requests for the 
17.2 	obligor's address from employers, and examination of governmental records, including, to 
17.3 	the extent not prohibited by other law, those relating to real property, vital statistics, law 
17.4 	enforcement, taxation, motor vehicles, driver's licenses, and Social Security.

17.5 	Sec. 24. Minnesota Statutes 2010, section 518C.311, is amended to read:
17.6 	518C.311 PLEADINGS AND ACCOMPANYING DOCUMENTS.
17.7 	(a) A petitioner seeking to establish or modify a support order or to, determine 
17.8 	parentage of a child, or register and modify a support order of a tribunal of another state or 
17.9 	a foreign country, in a proceeding under this chapter must verify the file a petition. Unless 
17.10 	otherwise ordered under section 518C.312, the petition or accompanying documents must 
17.11 	provide, so far as known, the name, residential address, and Social Security numbers 
17.12 	of the obligor and the obligee, and the name, sex, residential address, Social Security 
17.13 	number, and date of birth of each child for whom support is sought or whose parenthood is 
17.14 	to be determined. The petition must be accompanied by a certified copy of any support 
17.15 	order in effect. The petition may include any other information that may assist in locating 
17.16 	or identifying the respondent. 
17.17 	(b) The petition must specify the relief sought. The petition and accompanying 
17.18 	documents must conform substantially with the requirements imposed by the forms 
17.19 	mandated by federal law for use in cases filed by a support enforcement agency.

17.20 	Sec. 25. Minnesota Statutes 2010, section 518C.312, is amended to read:
17.21 	518C.312 NONDISCLOSURE OF INFORMATION IN EXCEPTIONAL 
17.22 	CIRCUMSTANCES.
17.23 	Upon a finding, which may be made ex parte, that the health, safety, or liberty 
17.24 	of a party or child would be unreasonably put at risk by the disclosure of identifying 
17.25 	information, or if an existing order so provides, a tribunal shall order that the address 
17.26 	of the child or party or other identifying information not be disclosed in a pleading or 
17.27 	other document filed in a proceeding under this chapter. If a party alleges in an affidavit 
17.28 	or a pleading under oath that the health, safety, or liberty of a party or child would be 
17.29 	jeopardized by disclosure of specific identifying information, that information must be 
17.30 	sealed and may not be disclosed to the other party or the public. After a hearing in which 
17.31 	a tribunal takes into consideration the health, safety, or liberty of the party or child, the 
17.32 	tribunal may order disclosure of information that the tribunal determines to be in the 
17.33 	interest of justice.

18.1 	Sec. 26. Minnesota Statutes 2010, section 518C.313, is amended to read:
18.2 	518C.313 COSTS AND FEES.
18.3 	(a) The petitioner may not be required to pay a filing fee or other costs.
18.4 	(b) If an obligee prevails, a responding tribunal of this state may assess against an 
18.5 	obligor filing fees, reasonable attorney's fees, other costs, and necessary travel and other 
18.6 	reasonable expenses incurred by the obligee and the obligee's witnesses. The tribunal may 
18.7 	not assess fees, costs, or expenses against the obligee or the support enforcement agency 
18.8 	of either the initiating or the responding state or foreign country, except as provided by 
18.9 	other law. Attorney's fees may be taxed as costs, and may be ordered paid directly to the 
18.10 	attorney, who may enforce the order in the attorney's own name. Payment of support owed 
18.11 	to the obligee has priority over fees, costs, and expenses.
18.12 	(c) The tribunal shall order the payment of costs and reasonable attorney's fees if 
18.13 	it determines that a hearing was requested primarily for delay. In a proceeding under 
18.14 	sections 518C.601 to 518C.612 518C.616, a hearing is presumed to have been requested 
18.15 	primarily for delay if a registered support order is confirmed or enforced without change. 

18.16 	Sec. 27. Minnesota Statutes 2010, section 518C.314, is amended to read:
18.17 	518C.314 LIMITED IMMUNITY OF PETITIONER.
18.18 	(a) Participation by a petitioner in a proceeding under this chapter before a 
18.19 	responding tribunal, whether in person, by private attorney, or through services provided 
18.20 	by the support enforcement agency, does not confer personal jurisdiction over the 
18.21 	petitioner in another proceeding.
18.22 	(b) A petitioner is not amenable to service of civil process while physically present 
18.23 	in this state to participate in a proceeding under this chapter.
18.24 	(c) The immunity granted by this section does not extend to civil litigation based on 
18.25 	acts unrelated to a proceeding under this chapter committed by a party while present in 
18.26 	this state to participate in the proceeding.

18.27 	Sec. 28. Minnesota Statutes 2010, section 518C.316, is amended to read:
18.28 	518C.316 SPECIAL RULES OF EVIDENCE AND PROCEDURE.
18.29 	(a) The physical presence of the petitioner in a responding tribunal of this state is 
18.30 	not required for the establishment, enforcement, or modification of a support order or the 
18.31 	rendition of a judgment determining parentage of a child.
18.32 	(b) A verified petition, affidavit, document substantially complying with federally 
18.33 	mandated forms, and a document incorporated by reference in any of them, not excluded 
19.1 	under the hearsay rule if given in person, is admissible in evidence if given under oath by 
19.2 	a party or witness residing in another outside this state.
19.3 	(c) A copy of the record of child support payments certified as a true copy of the 
19.4 	original by the custodian of the record may be forwarded to a responding tribunal. The 
19.5 	copy is evidence of facts asserted in it, and is admissible to show whether payments 
19.6 	were made.
19.7 	(d) Copies of bills for testing for parentage of a child, and for prenatal and postnatal 
19.8 	health care of the mother and child, furnished to the adverse party at least ten days before 
19.9 	trial, are admissible in evidence to prove the amount of the charges billed and that the 
19.10 	charges were reasonable, necessary, and customary.
19.11 	(e) Documentary evidence transmitted from another outside this state to a tribunal 
19.12 	of this state by telephone, telecopier, or other electronic means that do not provide an 
19.13 	original writing record may not be excluded from evidence on an objection based on 
19.14 	the means of transmission.
19.15 	(f) In a proceeding under this chapter, a tribunal of this state may shall permit a party 
19.16 	or witness residing in another outside this state to be deposed or to testify under penalty of 
19.17 	perjury by telephone, audiovisual means, or other electronic means at a designated tribunal 
19.18 	or other location in that state. A tribunal of this state shall cooperate with other tribunals 
19.19 	of other states in designating an appropriate location for the deposition or testimony.
19.20 	(g) If a party called to testify at a civil hearing refuses to answer on the ground that 
19.21 	the testimony may be self-incriminating, the trier of fact may draw an adverse inference 
19.22 	from the refusal.
19.23 	(h) A privilege against disclosure of communications between spouses does not 
19.24 	apply in a proceeding under this chapter.
19.25 	(i) The defense of immunity based on the relationship of husband and wife or parent 
19.26 	and child does not apply in a proceeding under this chapter.
19.27 	(j) A voluntary acknowledgment of paternity, certified as a true copy, is admissible 
19.28 	to establish parentage of a child.

19.29 	Sec. 29. Minnesota Statutes 2010, section 518C.317, is amended to read:
19.30 	518C.317 COMMUNICATIONS BETWEEN TRIBUNALS.
19.31 	A tribunal of this state may communicate with a tribunal of another outside this state 
19.32 	in writing, by e-mail, or by telephone or other means, to obtain information concerning 
19.33 	the laws of that state, the legal effect of a judgment, decree, or order of that tribunal, and 
19.34 	the status of a proceeding in the other state. A tribunal of this state may furnish similar 
19.35 	information by similar means to a tribunal of another outside this state.

20.1 	Sec. 30. Minnesota Statutes 2010, section 518C.318, is amended to read:
20.2 	518C.318 ASSISTANCE WITH DISCOVERY.
20.3 	A tribunal of this state may:
20.4 	(1) request a tribunal of another outside this state to assist in obtaining discovery; and
20.5 	(2) upon request, compel a person over whom which it has jurisdiction to respond to 
20.6 	a discovery order issued by a tribunal of another outside this state.

20.7 	Sec. 31. Minnesota Statutes 2010, section 518C.319, is amended to read:
20.8 	518C.319 RECEIPT AND DISBURSEMENT OF PAYMENTS.
20.9 	(a) A support enforcement agency or tribunal of this state shall disburse promptly 
20.10 	any amounts received pursuant to a support order, as directed by the order. The agency 
20.11 	or tribunal shall furnish to a requesting party or tribunal of another state or a foreign 
20.12 	country a certified statement by the custodian of the record of the amounts and dates 
20.13 	of all payments received.
20.14 	(b) If neither the obligor, not the obligee who is an individual, nor the child resides 
20.15 	in this state, upon request from the support enforcement agency of this state or another 
20.16 	state, the support enforcement agency of this state or a tribunal of this state shall:
20.17 	(1) direct that the support payment be made to the support enforcement agency in 
20.18 	the state in which the obligee is receiving services; and
20.19 	(2) issue and send to the obligor's employer a conforming income-withholding order 
20.20 	or an administrative notice of change of payee, reflecting the redirected payments.
20.21 	(c) The support enforcement agency of this state receiving redirected payments from 
20.22 	another state pursuant to a law similar to paragraph (b) shall furnish to a requesting party 
20.23 	or tribunal of the other state a certified statement by the custodian of the record of the 
20.24 	amount and dates of all payments received.

20.25 	Sec. 32. Minnesota Statutes 2010, section 518C.401, is amended to read:
20.26 	518C.401 PETITION TO ESTABLISH ESTABLISHMENT OF SUPPORT 
20.27 	ORDER.
20.28 	(a) If a support order entitled to recognition under this chapter has not been issued, 
20.29 	a responding tribunal of this state with personal jurisdiction over the parties may issue 
20.30 	a support order if:
20.31 	(1) the individual seeking the order resides in another outside this state; or
20.32 	(2) the support enforcement agency seeking the order is located in another outside 
20.33 	this state.
21.1 	(b) The tribunal may issue a temporary child support order if the tribunal determines 
21.2 	that such an order is appropriate and the individual ordered to pay is:
21.3 	(1) the respondent has signed a verified statement acknowledging parentage;
21.4 	(2) the respondent has been determined by law to be the parent; or
21.5 	(3) there is other clear and convincing evidence that the respondent is the child's 
21.6 	parent.
21.7 	(1) a presumed father of the child;
21.8 	(2) petitioning to have his paternity adjudicated;
21.9 	(3) identified as the father of the child through genetic testing;
21.10 	(4) an alleged father who has declined to submit to genetic testing;
21.11 	(5) shown by clear and convincing evidence to be the father of the child;
21.12 	(6) an acknowledged father as provided by section 257.55;
21.13 	(7) the mother of the child; or
21.14 	(8) an individual who has been ordered to pay child support in a previous proceeding 
21.15 	and the order has not been reversed or vacated.
21.16 	(c) Upon a finding, after notice and opportunity to be heard, that an obligor owes a 
21.17 	duty of support, the tribunal shall issue a support order directed to the obligor and may 
21.18 	issue other orders according to section 518C.305. 

21.19 	Sec. 33. [518C.402] PROCEEDING TO DETERMINE PARENTAGE.
21.20 	A tribunal of this state authorized to determine parentage of a child may serve as a 
21.21 	responding tribunal in a proceeding to determine parentage of a child brought under this 
21.22 	chapter or a law or procedure substantially similar to this chapter.

21.23 	Sec. 34. Minnesota Statutes 2010, section 518C.501, is amended to read:
21.24 	518C.501 EMPLOYER'S RECEIPT OF INCOME-WITHHOLDING ORDER 
21.25 	OF ANOTHER STATE.
21.26 	An income-withholding order issued in another state may be sent by or on behalf 
21.27 	of the obligee, or by the support enforcement agency, to the person or entity defined as 
21.28 	the obligor's employer under section 518A.53 without first filing a petition or comparable 
21.29 	pleading or registering the order with a tribunal of this state.

21.30 	Sec. 35. Minnesota Statutes 2010, section 518C.503, is amended to read:
21.31 	518C.503 EMPLOYER'S COMPLIANCE WITH MULTIPLE TWO OR 
21.32 	MORE INCOME-WITHHOLDING ORDERS.
22.1 	If the obligor's employer receives multiple two or more income-withholding orders 
22.2 	with respect to withhold support from the earnings of the same obligor, the employer 
22.3 	satisfies the terms of the multiple orders if the employer complies with the law of the state 
22.4 	of the obligor's principal place of employment to establish the priorities for withholding 
22.5 	and allocating income withheld for multiple two or more child support obligees.

22.6 	Sec. 36. Minnesota Statutes 2010, section 518C.504, is amended to read:
22.7 	518C.504 IMMUNITY FROM CIVIL LIABILITY.
22.8 	An employer who that complies with an income-withholding order issued in another 
22.9 	state in accordance with this chapter is not subject to civil liability to any individual or 
22.10 	agency with regard to the employer's withholding of child support from the obligor's 
22.11 	income.

22.12 	Sec. 37. Minnesota Statutes 2010, section 518C.505, is amended to read:
22.13 	518C.505 PENALTIES FOR NONCOMPLIANCE.
22.14 	An employer who that willfully fails to comply with an income-withholding order 
22.15 	issued by in another state and received for enforcement is subject to the same penalties 
22.16 	that may be imposed for noncompliance with an order issued by a tribunal of this state.

22.17 	Sec. 38. Minnesota Statutes 2010, section 518C.506, is amended to read:
22.18 	518C.506 CONTEST BY OBLIGOR.
22.19 	(a) An obligor may contest the validity or enforcement of an income-withholding 
22.20 	order issued in another state and received directly by an employer in this state by 
22.21 	registering the order in a tribunal of this state and filing a contest to that order as provided 
22.22 	in sections 518C.601 to 518C.616, or otherwise contesting the order in the same manner 
22.23 	as if the order had been issued by a tribunal of this state. Section 518C.604 applies 
22.24 	to the contest. 
22.25 	(b) The obligor shall give notice of the contest to:
22.26 	(1) a support enforcement agency providing services to the obligee;
22.27 	(2) each employer which that has directly received an income-withholding order
22.28 	relating to the obligor; and
22.29 	(3) the person or agency designated to receive payments in the income-withholding 
22.30 	order or, if no person or agency is designated, to the obligee.

23.1 	Sec. 39. Minnesota Statutes 2010, section 518C.508, is amended to read:
23.2 	518C.508 ADMINISTRATIVE ENFORCEMENT OF ORDERS.
23.3 	(a) A party or support enforcement agency seeking to enforce a support order or an 
23.4 	income-withholding order, or both, issued by a tribunal of in another state or a foreign 
23.5 	support order may send the documents required for registering the order to a support 
23.6 	enforcement agency of this state.
23.7 	(b) Upon receipt of the documents, the support enforcement agency, without 
23.8 	initially seeking to register the order, shall consider and may, if appropriate, use any 
23.9 	administrative procedure authorized by the laws of this state to enforce a support order 
23.10 	or an income-withholding order, or both. If the obligor does not contest administrative 
23.11 	enforcement, the order need not be registered. If the obligor contests the validity or 
23.12 	administrative enforcement of the order, the support enforcement agency shall register the 
23.13 	order under this chapter.

23.14 	Sec. 40. Minnesota Statutes 2010, section 518C.601, is amended to read:
23.15 	518C.601 REGISTRATION OF ORDER FOR ENFORCEMENT.
23.16 	A support order or an income-withholding order issued by a tribunal of in another 
23.17 	state or a foreign support order may be registered in this state for enforcement.

23.18 	Sec. 41. Minnesota Statutes 2010, section 518C.602, is amended to read:
23.19 	518C.602 PROCEDURE TO REGISTER ORDER FOR ENFORCEMENT.
23.20 	(a) Except as otherwise provided ins section 518C.706, a support order or 
23.21 	income-withholding order of another state or a foreign support order may be registered 
23.22 	in this state by sending the following documents and information to the registering 
23.23 	tribunal in this state:
23.24 	(1) a letter of transmittal to the tribunal requesting registration and enforcement;
23.25 	(2) two copies, including one certified copy, of all orders the order to be registered, 
23.26 	including any modification of an the order;
23.27 	(3) a sworn statement by the party person seeking registration or a certified statement 
23.28 	by the custodian of the records showing the amount of any arrearage;
23.29 	(4) the name of the obligor and, if known:
23.30 	(i) the obligor's address and Social Security number;
23.31 	(ii) the name and address of the obligor's employer and any other source of income 
23.32 	of the obligor; and
24.1 	(iii) a description and the location of property of the obligor in this state not exempt 
24.2 	from execution; and
24.3 	(5) except as otherwise provided in section 518C.312, the name and address of the 
24.4 	obligee and, if applicable, the agency or person to whom support payments are to be 
24.5 	remitted.
24.6 	(b) On receipt of a request for registration, the registering tribunal shall cause the 
24.7 	order to be filed as a foreign judgment an order of a tribunal of another state or a foreign 
24.8 	support order, together with one copy of the documents and information, regardless of 
24.9 	their form.
24.10 	(c) A petition or comparable pleading seeking a remedy that must be affirmatively 
24.11 	sought under other law of this state may be filed at the same time as the request for 
24.12 	registration or later. The pleading must specify the grounds for the remedy sought.
24.13 	(d) If two or more orders are in effect, the person requesting registration shall:
24.14 	(1) furnish to the tribunal a copy of every support order asserted to be in effect in 
24.15 	addition to the documents specified in this section;
24.16 	(2) specify the order alleged to be the controlling order, if any; and
24.17 	(3) specify the amount of consolidated arrears, if any.
24.18 	(e) A request for a determination of which is the controlling order may be filed 
24.19 	separately or with a request for registration and enforcement or for registration and 
24.20 	modification. The person requesting registration shall give notice of the request to each 
24.21 	party who rights may be affected by the determination.

24.22 	Sec. 42. Minnesota Statutes 2010, section 518C.603, is amended to read:
24.23 	518C.603 EFFECT OF REGISTRATION FOR ENFORCEMENT.
24.24 	(a) A support order or income-withholding order issued in another state or a foreign 
24.25 	support order is registered when the order is filed in the registering tribunal of this state.
24.26 	(b) A registered support order issued in another state or a foreign country is 
24.27 	enforceable in the same manner and is subject to the same procedures as an order issued 
24.28 	by a tribunal of this state.
24.29 	(c) Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, a tribunal of this state shall 
24.30 	recognize and enforce, but may not modify, a registered support order if the issuing 
24.31 	tribunal had jurisdiction.

24.32 	Sec. 43. Minnesota Statutes 2010, section 518C.604, is amended to read:
24.33 	518C.604 CHOICE OF LAW.
25.1 	(a) Except as otherwise provided in paragraph (d), the law of the issuing state or 
25.2 	foreign country governs:
25.3 	(1) the nature, extent, amount, and duration of current payments and under a 
25.4 	registered support order;
25.5 	(2) the computation and payment of arrearages and accrual of interest on the 
25.6 	arrearages under the support order; and
25.7 	(3) the existence and satisfaction of other obligations of support and the payment of 
25.8 	arrearages under the support order.
25.9 	(b) In a proceeding for arrearages, the statute of limitation under the laws of this 
25.10 	state or of the issuing state or foreign country, whichever is longer, applies.
25.11 	(c) A responding tribunal of this state shall apply the procedures and remedies of 
25.12 	this state to enforce current support and collect arrears and interest due on a support order 
25.13 	of another state or a foreign country registered in this state.
25.14 	(d) After a tribunal of this state or another state determines which is the controlling 
25.15 	order and issues an order consolidating arrears, if any, a tribunal of this state shall 
25.16 	prospectively apply the law of the state or foreign country issuing the controlling order, 
25.17 	including its law on interest on arrears, on current and future support, and on consolidated 
25.18 	arrears.

25.19 	Sec. 44. Minnesota Statutes 2010, section 518C.605, is amended to read:
25.20 	518C.605 NOTICE OF REGISTRATION OF ORDER.
25.21 	(a) When a support order or income-withholding order issued in another state or 
25.22 	foreign support order is registered, the registering tribunal of this state shall notify the 
25.23 	nonregistering party. The notice must be accompanied by a copy of the registered order 
25.24 	and the documents and relevant information accompanying the order.
25.25 	(b) The notice must inform the nonregistering party:
25.26 	(1) that a registered order is enforceable as of the date of registration in the same 
25.27 	manner as an order issued by a tribunal of this state;
25.28 	(2) that a hearing to contest the validity or enforcement of the registered order 
25.29 	must be requested within 20 days after notice unless the registered order is under section 
25.30 	518C.707;
25.31 	(3) that failure to contest the validity or enforcement of the registered order in a 
25.32 	timely manner will result in confirmation of the order and enforcement of the order and 
25.33 	the alleged arrearages and precludes further contest of that order with respect to any 
25.34 	matter that could have been asserted; and
25.35 	(4) of the amount of any alleged arrearages.
26.1 	(c) If the registering party asserts that two or more orders are in effect, a notice 
26.2 	must also:
26.3 	(1) identify the two or more orders and the order alleged by the registering party to 
26.4 	be the controlling order and the consolidated arrears, if any;
26.5 	(2) notify the nonregistering party of the right to a determination of which is the 
26.6 	controlling order;
26.7 	(3) state that the procedures provided in paragraph (b) apply to the determination of 
26.8 	which is the controlling order; and
26.9 	(4) state that failure to contest the validity or enforcement of the order alleged to 
26.10 	be the controlling order in a timely manner may result in confirmation that the order 
26.11 	is the controlling order.
26.12 	(c) (d) Upon registration of an income-withholding order for enforcement, the 
26.13 	support enforcement agency, or the registering tribunal shall notify the obligor's employer 
26.14 	pursuant to section 518A.53.

26.15 	Sec. 45. Minnesota Statutes 2010, section 518C.606, is amended to read:
26.16 	518C.606 PROCEDURE TO CONTEST VALIDITY OR ENFORCEMENT 
26.17 	OF REGISTERED SUPPORT ORDER.
26.18 	(a) A nonregistering party seeking to contest the validity or enforcement of a 
26.19 	registered support order in this state shall request a hearing within 20 days after notice of 
26.20 	the registration the time required by section 518C.605. The nonregistering party may seek 
26.21 	to vacate the registration, to assert any defense to an allegation of noncompliance with 
26.22 	the registered order, or to contest the remedies being sought or the amount of any alleged 
26.23 	arrearages pursuant to section 518C.607. 
26.24 	(b) If the nonregistering party fails to contest the validity or enforcement of the 
26.25 	registered support order in a timely manner, the order is confirmed by operation of law.
26.26 	(c) If a nonregistering party requests a hearing to contest the validity or enforcement 
26.27 	of the registered support order, the registering tribunal shall schedule the matter for 
26.28 	hearing and give notice to the parties of the date, time, and place of the hearing.

26.29 	Sec. 46. Minnesota Statutes 2010, section 518C.607, is amended to read:
26.30 	518C.607 CONTEST OF REGISTRATION OR ENFORCEMENT.
26.31 	(a) A party contesting the validity or enforcement of a registered support order or 
26.32 	seeking to vacate the registration has the burden of proving one or more of the following 
26.33 	defenses:
26.34 	(1) the issuing tribunal lacked personal jurisdiction over the contesting party;
27.1 	(2) the order was obtained by fraud;
27.2 	(3) the order has been vacated, suspended, or modified by a later order;
27.3 	(4) the issuing tribunal has stayed the order pending appeal;
27.4 	(5) there is a defense under the law of this state to the remedy sought;
27.5 	(6) full or partial payment has been made; or
27.6 	(7) the statute of limitation under section 518C.604 precludes enforcement of some 
27.7 	or all of the arrearages.; or
27.8 	(8) the alleged controlling order is not the controlling order.
27.9 	(b) If a party presents evidence establishing a full or partial defense under paragraph 
27.10 	(a), a tribunal may stay enforcement of the a registered support order, continue the 
27.11 	proceeding to permit production of additional relevant evidence, and issue other 
27.12 	appropriate orders. An uncontested portion of the registered support order may be 
27.13 	enforced by all remedies available under the law of this state.
27.14 	(c) If the contesting party does not establish a defense under paragraph (a) to the 
27.15 	validity or enforcement of the a registered support order, the registering tribunal shall 
27.16 	issue an order confirming the order.

27.17 	Sec. 47. Minnesota Statutes 2010, section 518C.608, is amended to read:
27.18 	518C.608 CONFIRMED ORDER.
27.19 	Confirmation of a registered support order, whether by operation of law or after 
27.20 	notice and hearing, precludes further contest of the order with respect to any matter that 
27.21 	could have been asserted at the time of registration.

27.22 	Sec. 48. Minnesota Statutes 2010, section 518C.609, is amended to read:
27.23 	518C.609 PROCEDURE TO REGISTER CHILD SUPPORT ORDER OF 
27.24 	ANOTHER STATE FOR MODIFICATION.
27.25 	A party or support enforcement agency seeking to modify, or to modify and enforce, 
27.26 	a child support order issued in another state shall register that order in this state in the 
27.27 	same manner provided in sections 518C.601 to 518C.604 518C.608 if the order has not 
27.28 	been registered. A petition for modification may be filed at the same time as a request for 
27.29 	registration, or later. The pleading must specify the grounds for modification. 

27.30 	Sec. 49. Minnesota Statutes 2010, section 518C.610, is amended to read:
27.31 	518C.610 EFFECT OF REGISTRATION FOR MODIFICATION.
28.1 	A tribunal of this state may enforce a child support order of another state registered 
28.2 	for purposes of modification, in the same manner as if the order had been issued by 
28.3 	a tribunal of this state, but the registered support order may be modified only if the 
28.4 	requirements of section 518C.611 or 518C.613 have been met. 

28.5 	Sec. 50. Minnesota Statutes 2010, section 518C.611, is amended to read:
28.6 	518C.611 MODIFICATION OF CHILD SUPPORT ORDER OF ANOTHER 
28.7 	STATE.
28.8 	(a) After a child support order issued in another state has been registered in this state, 
28.9 	the responding If section 518C.613 does not apply, upon petition a tribunal of this state 
28.10 	may modify that order only if section 518C.613 does not apply anda child support order 
28.11 	issued in another state that is registered in this state if, after notice and hearing, it finds that: 
28.12 	(1) the following requirements are met:
28.13 	(i) neither the child, nor the individual obligee who is an individual, and nor the 
28.14 	obligor do not reside resides in the issuing state;
28.15 	(ii) a petitioner who is a nonresident of this state seeks modification; and
28.16 	(iii) the respondent is subject to the personal jurisdiction of the tribunal of this 
28.17 	state; or
28.18 	(2) this state is the residence of the child, or a party who is an individual, is subject 
28.19 	to the personal jurisdiction of the tribunal of this state and all of the parties who are 
28.20 	individuals have filed written consents in a record in the issuing tribunal for a tribunal 
28.21 	of this state to modify the support order and assume continuing, exclusive jurisdiction 
28.22 	over the order. However, if the issuing state is a foreign jurisdiction that has not enacted a 
28.23 	law or established procedures substantially similar to the procedures in this chapter, the 
28.24 	consent otherwise required of an individual residing in this state is not required for the 
28.25 	tribunal to assume jurisdiction to modify the child support order.
28.26 	(b) Modification of a registered child support order is subject to the same 
28.27 	requirements, procedures, and defenses that apply to the modification of an order issued 
28.28 	by a tribunal of this state and the order may be enforced and satisfied in the same manner.
28.29 	(c) A tribunal of this state may not modify any aspect of a child support order that 
28.30 	may not be modified under the law of the issuing state, including the duration of the 
28.31 	obligation of support. If two or more tribunals have issued child support orders for the 
28.32 	same obligor and child, the order that controls and must be recognized under section 
28.33 	518C.207 establishes the aspects of the support order which are nonmodifiable. 
28.34 	(d) In a proceeding to modify a child support order, the law of the state that is 
28.35 	determined to have issued the initial controlling order governs the duration of the 
29.1 	obligation of support. The obligor's fulfillment of the duty of support established by that 
29.2 	order precludes imposition of a further obligation of support by a tribunal of this state.
29.3 	(d) (e) On issuance of an order modifying a child support order issued in another 
29.4 	state, a tribunal of this state becomes the tribunal of having continuing, exclusive 
29.5 	jurisdiction.
29.6 	(f) Notwithstanding paragraphs (a) to (d) and section 518C.201, paragraph (b), a 
29.7 	tribunal of this state retains jurisdiction to modify an order issued by a tribunal of this 
29.8 	state if:
29.9 	(1) one party resides in another state; and
29.10 	(2) the other party resides outside the United States.

29.11 	Sec. 51. Minnesota Statutes 2010, section 518C.612, is amended to read:
29.12 	518C.612 RECOGNITION OF ORDER MODIFIED IN ANOTHER STATE.
29.13 	If a child support order issued by a tribunal of this state shall recognize a modification 
29.14 	of its earlier child support order is modified by a tribunal of another state which assumed 
29.15 	jurisdiction according to this chapter or a law substantially similar to this chapter and, 
29.16 	upon request, except as otherwise provided in this chapter, shall a tribunal of this state:
29.17 	(1) may enforce the its order that was modified only as to amounts arrears and 
29.18 	interest accruing before the modification;
29.19 	(2) enforce only nonmodifiable aspects of that order;
29.20 	(3)(2) may provide other appropriate relief only for violations of that its order which 
29.21 	occurred before the effective date of the modification; and
29.22 	(4) (3) shall recognize the modifying order of the other state, upon registration, 
29.23 	for the purpose of enforcement.

29.24 	Sec. 52. Minnesota Statutes 2010, section 518C.613, is amended to read:
29.25 	518C.613 JURISDICTION TO MODIFY SUPPORT ORDER OF ANOTHER 
29.26 	STATE WHEN INDIVIDUAL PARTIES RESIDE IN THIS STATE.
29.27 	(a) If all of the parties who are individuals reside in this state and the child does not 
29.28 	reside in the issuing state, a tribunal of this state has jurisdiction to enforce and to modify 
29.29 	the issuing state's child support order in a proceeding to register that order.
29.30 	(b) A tribunal of this state exercising jurisdiction as provided in this section shall 
29.31 	apply sections 518C.101 to 518C.209 and 518C.601 to 518C.614518C.616 to the 
29.32 	enforcement or modification proceeding. Sections 518C.301 to 518C.507518C.508 
29.33 	and 518C.701 to 518C.802 do not apply and the tribunal shall apply the procedural and 
29.34 	substantive law of this state. 

30.1 	Sec. 53. [518C.615] JURISDICTION TO MODIFY CHILD SUPPORT ORDER 
30.2 	OF FOREIGN COUNTRY.
30.3 	(a) Except as otherwise provided in section 518C.711, if a foreign country lacks or 
30.4 	refuses to exercise jurisdiction to modify its child support order pursuant to its laws, a 
30.5 	tribunal of this state may assume jurisdiction to modify the child support order and bind 
30.6 	all individuals subject to the personal jurisdiction of the tribunal whether the consent to 
30.7 	modification of a child support order otherwise required of the individual pursuant to 
30.8 	section 518C.611 has been given or whether the individual seeking modification is a 
30.9 	resident of this state or of the foreign country.
30.10 	(b) An order issued by a tribunal of this state modifying a foreign child support order 
30.11 	pursuant to this section is the controlling order.

30.12 	Sec. 54. [518C.616] PROCEDURE TO REGISTER CHILD SUPPORT ORDER 
30.13 	OF FOREIGN COUNTRY FOR MODIFICATION.
30.14 	A party or support enforcement agency seeking to modify, or to modify and enforce, 
30.15 	a foreign child support order not under the convention may register that order in this state 
30.16 	under sections 518C.601 to 518C.608 if the order has not been registered. A petition for 
30.17 	modification may be filed at the same time as a request for registration, or at another time. 
30.18 	The petition must specify the grounds for modification.

30.19 	Sec. 55. Minnesota Statutes 2010, section 518C.701, is amended to read:
30.20 	518C.701 PROCEEDING TO DETERMINE PARENTAGE DEFINITIONS.
30.21 	In sections 518C.701 to 518C.713:
30.22 	(a) A tribunal of this state may serve as an initiating or responding tribunal in a 
30.23 	proceeding brought under this chapter or a law or procedure substantially similar to this 
30.24 	chapter, or under a law or procedure substantially similar to the Uniform Reciprocal 
30.25 	Enforcement of Support Act, or the Revised Uniform Reciprocal Enforcement of Support 
30.26 	Act to determine that the petitioner is a parent of a particular child or to determine that a 
30.27 	respondent is a parent of that child "Application" means a request under the convention 
30.28 	by an obligee or obligor, or on behalf of a child, made through a central authority for 
30.29 	assistance from another central authority.
30.30 	(b) In a proceeding to determine parentage, a responding tribunal of this state shall 
30.31 	apply the Parentage Act, sections 257.51 to 257.74, and the rules of this state on choice 
30.32 	of law "Central authority" means the entity designated by the United States or a foreign 
30.33 	country described in section 518C.101, paragraph (e), clause (4), to perform the functions 
30.34 	specified in the convention. 
31.1 	(c) "Convention support order" means a support order of a tribunal of a foreign 
31.2 	country described in section 518C.101, paragraph (e), clause (4).
31.3 	(d) "Direct request" means a petition filed by an individual in a tribunal of this state 
31.4 	in a proceeding involving an obligee, obligor, or child residing outside the United States.
31.5 	(e) "Foreign central authority" means the entity designated by a foreign country 
31.6 	described in section 518C.101, paragraph (e), clause (4), to perform the functions specified 
31.7 	in the convention.
31.8 	(f) "Foreign support agreement":
31.9 	(1) means an agreement for support in a record that:
31.10 	(i) is enforceable as a support order in the country of origin;
31.11 	(ii) has been:
31.12 	(A) formally drawn up or registered as an authentic instrument by a foreign tribunal; 
31.13 	or
31.14 	(B) authenticated by, or concluded, registered, or filed with a foreign tribunal; and
31.15 	(iii) may be reviewed and modified by a foreign tribunal; and
31.16 	(2) includes a maintenance arrangement or authentic instrument under the 
31.17 	convention.
31.18 	(g) "United States central authority" means the Secretary of the United States 
31.19 	Department of Health and Human Services.

31.20 	Sec. 56. [518C.702] APPLICABILITY.
31.21 	Sections 518C.701 to 518C.713 apply only to a support proceeding under the 
31.22 	convention. In such a proceeding, if a provision of sections 518C.701 to 518C.713 is 
31.23 	inconsistent with sections 518C.101 to 518C.616, sections 518C.701 to 518C.713 control.

31.24 	Sec. 57. [518C.703] RELATIONSHIP OF DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN 
31.25 	SERVICES TO UNITED STATES CENTRAL AUTHORITY.
31.26 	The Department of Human Services of this state is recognized as the agency 
31.27 	designated by the United States central authority to perform specific functions under 
31.28 	the convention.

31.29 	Sec. 58. [518C.704] INITIATION BY DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES 
31.30 	OF SUPPORT PROCEEDING UNDER CONVENTION.
31.31 	(a) In a support proceeding under sections 518C.701 to 518C.713, the Department of 
31.32 	Human Services of this state shall:
31.33 	(1) transmit and receive applications; and
32.1 	(2) initiate or facilitate the institution of a proceeding regarding an application 
32.2 	in a tribunal of this state.
32.3 	(b) The following support proceedings are available to an obligee under the 
32.4 	convention:
32.5 	(1) recognition or recognition and enforcement of a foreign support order;
32.6 	(2) enforcement of a support order issued or recognized in this state;
32.7 	(3) establishment of a support order if there is no existing order, including, if 
32.8 	necessary, determination of parentage of a child;
32.9 	(4) establishment of a support order if recognition of a foreign support order is 
32.10 	refused under section 518C.708, paragraph (b), clause (2), (4), or (9);
32.11 	(5) modification of a support order of a tribunal of this state; and
32.12 	(6) modification of a support order of a tribunal of another state or a foreign country.
32.13 	(c) The following support proceedings are available under the convention to an 
32.14 	obligor against which there is an existing support order:
32.15 	(1) recognition of an order suspending or limiting enforcement of an existing support 
32.16 	order of a tribunal of this state;
32.17 	(2) modification of a support order of a tribunal of this state; and
32.18 	(3) modification of a support order of a tribunal of another state or a foreign country.
32.19 	(d) A tribunal of this state may not require security, bond, or deposit, however 
32.20 	described, to guarantee the payment of costs and expenses in proceedings under the 
32.21 	convention.

32.22 	Sec. 59. [518C.705] DIRECT REQUEST.
32.23 	(a) A petitioner may file a direct request seeking establishment or modification 
32.24 	of a support order or determination of parentage of a child. In the proceeding, the law 
32.25 	of this state applies.
32.26 	(b) A petitioner may file a direct request seeking recognition and enforcement of a 
32.27 	support order or support agreement. In the proceeding, sections 518C.706 to 518C.713 
32.28 	apply.
32.29 	(c) In a direct request for recognition and enforcement of a convention support 
32.30 	order or foreign support agreement:
32.31 	(1) a security, bond, or deposit is not required to guarantee the payment of costs 
32.32 	and expenses; and
32.33 	(2) an obligee or obligor that in the issuing country has benefited from free legal 
32.34 	assistance is entitled to benefit, at least to the same extent, from any free legal assistance 
32.35 	provided for by the law of this state under the same circumstances.
33.1 	(d) A petitioner filing a direct request is not entitled to assistance from the 
33.2 	Department of Human Services.
33.3 	(e) Sections 518C.701 to 518C.713 do not prevent the application of laws of 
33.4 	this state that provide simplified, more expeditious rules regarding a direct request for 
33.5 	recognition and enforcement of a foreign support order or foreign support agreement.

33.6 	Sec. 60. [518C.706] REGISTRATION OF CONVENTION SUPPORT ORDER.
33.7 	(a) Except as otherwise provided in sections 518C.701 to 518C.713, a party who is 
33.8 	an individual or a support enforcement agency seeking recognition of a convention support 
33.9 	order shall register the order in this state as provided in sections 518C.601 to 518C.616.
33.10 	(b) Notwithstanding sections 518C.311 and 518C.602, paragraph (a), a request for 
33.11 	registration of a convention support order must be accompanied by:
33.12 	(1) a complete text of the support order or an abstract or extract of the support order 
33.13 	drawn up by the issuing foreign tribunal, which may be in the form recommended by the 
33.14 	Hague Conference on Private International Law;
33.15 	(2) a record stating that the support order is enforceable in the issuing country;
33.16 	(3) if the respondent did not appear and was not represented in the proceedings 
33.17 	in the issuing country, a record attesting, as appropriate, either that the respondent had 
33.18 	proper notice of the proceedings and an opportunity to be heard or that the respondent 
33.19 	had proper notice of the support order and an opportunity to be heard in a challenge 
33.20 	or appeal on fact or law before a tribunal;
33.21 	(4) a record showing the amount of arrears, if any, and the date the amount was 
33.22 	calculated;
33.23 	(5) a record showing a requirement for automatic adjustment of the amount of 
33.24 	support, if any, and the information necessary to make the appropriate calculations; and
33.25 	(6) if necessary, a record showing the extent to which the applicant received free 
33.26 	legal assistance in the issuing country.
33.27 	(c) A request for registration of a convention support order may seek recognition 
33.28 	and partial enforcement of the order.
33.29 	(d) A tribunal of this state may vacate the registration of a convention support order 
33.30 	without the filing of a contest under section 518C.707 only if, acting on its own motion, 
33.31 	the tribunal finds that recognition and enforcement of the order would be manifestly 
33.32 	incompatible with public policy.
33.33 	(e) The tribunal shall promptly notify the parties of the registration or the order 
33.34 	vacating the registration of a convention support order.

34.1 	Sec. 61. [518C.707] CONTEST OF REGISTERED CONVENTION SUPPORT 
34.2 	ORDER.
34.3 	(a) Except as otherwise provided in sections 518C.701 to 518C.713, sections 
34.4 	518C.605 to 518C.608 apply to a contest of a registered convention support order.
34.5 	(b) A party contesting a registered convention support order shall file a contest no 
34.6 	later than 30 days after notice of the registration, but if the contesting party does not 
34.7 	reside in the United States, the contest must be filed no later than 60 days after notice 
34.8 	of the registration.
34.9 	(c) If the nonregistering party fails to contest the registered convention support order 
34.10 	by the time specified in paragraph (b), the order is enforceable.
34.11 	(d) A contest of a registered convention support order may be based only on grounds 
34.12 	set forth in section 518C.708. The contesting party bears the burden of proof.
34.13 	(e) In a contest of a registered convention support order, a tribunal of this state:
34.14 	(1) is bound by the findings of fact on which the foreign tribunal based its 
34.15 	jurisdiction; and
34.16 	(2) may not review the merits of the order.
34.17 	(f) A tribunal of this state deciding a contest of a registered convention support order 
34.18 	shall promptly notify the parties of its decision.
34.19 	(g) A challenge or appeal, if any, does not stay the enforcement of a convention 
34.20 	support order unless there are exceptional circumstances.

34.21 	Sec. 62. [518C.708]  RECOGNITION AND ENFORCEMENT OF REGISTERED 
34.22 	CONVENTION SUPPORT ORDER.
34.23 	(a) Except as otherwise provided in paragraph (b), a tribunal of this state shall 
34.24 	recognize and enforce a registered convention support order.
34.25 	(b) The following grounds are the only grounds on which a tribunal of this state may 
34.26 	refuse recognition and enforcement of a registered convention support order:
34.27 	(1) recognition and enforcement of the order is manifestly incompatible with public 
34.28 	policy, including the failure of the issuing tribunal to observe minimum standards of due 
34.29 	process, which include notice and an opportunity to be heard;
34.30 	(2) the issuing tribunal lacked personal jurisdiction consistent with section 518C.201;
34.31 	(3) the order is not enforceable in the issuing country;
34.32 	(4) the order was obtained by fraud in connection with a matter of procedure;
34.33 	(5) a record transmitted in accordance with section 518C.706 lacks authenticity or 
34.34 	integrity;
35.1 	(6) a proceeding between the same parties and having the same purpose is pending 
35.2 	before a tribunal of this state and that proceeding was the first to be filed;
35.3 	(7) the order is incompatible with a more recent support order involving the same 
35.4 	parties and having the same purpose if the more recent support order is entitled to 
35.5 	recognition and enforcement under this chapter in this state;
35.6 	(8) payment, to the extent alleged arrears have been paid in whole or in part;
35.7 	(9) in a case in which the respondent neither appeared nor was represented in the 
35.8 	proceeding in the issuing foreign country:
35.9 	(i) if the law of that country provides for prior notice of proceedings, the respondent 
35.10 	did not have proper notice of the proceedings and an opportunity to be heard; or
35.11 	(ii) if the law of that country does not provide for prior notice of the proceedings, 
35.12 	the respondent did not have proper notice of the order and an opportunity to be heard in 
35.13 	a challenge or appeal on fact or law before a tribunal; or
35.14 	(10) the order was made in violation of section 518C.711.
35.15 	(c) If a tribunal of this state does not recognize a convention support order under 
35.16 	paragraph (b), clause (2), (4), or (9):
35.17 	(1) the tribunal may not dismiss the proceeding without allowing a reasonable time 
35.18 	for a party to request the establishment of a new convention support order; and
35.19 	(2) the Department of Human Services shall take all appropriate measures to request 
35.20 	a child support order for the obligee if the application for recognition and enforcement 
35.21 	was received under section 518C.704.

35.22 	Sec. 63. [518C.709] PARTIAL ENFORCEMENT.
35.23 	If a tribunal of this state does not recognize and enforce a convention support order 
35.24 	in its entirety, it shall enforce any severable part of the order. An application or direct 
35.25 	request may seek recognition and partial enforcement of a convention support order.

35.26 	Sec. 64. [518C.710] FOREIGN SUPPORT AGREEMENT.
35.27 	(a) Except as otherwise provided in paragraphs (c) and (d), a tribunal of this state 
35.28 	shall recognize and enforce a foreign support agreement registered in this state.
35.29 	(b) An application or direct request for recognition and enforcement of a foreign 
35.30 	support agreement must be accompanied by:
35.31 	(1) a complete text of the foreign support agreement; and
35.32 	(2) a record stating that the foreign support agreement is enforceable as an order 
35.33 	of support in the issuing country.
36.1 	(c) A tribunal of this state may vacate the registration of a foreign support agreement 
36.2 	only if, acting on its own motion, the tribunal finds that recognition and enforcement 
36.3 	would be manifestly incompatible with public policy.
36.4 	(d) In a contest of a foreign support agreement, a tribunal of this state may refuse 
36.5 	recognition and enforcement of the agreement if it finds:
36.6 	(1) recognition and enforcement of the agreement is manifestly incompatible with 
36.7 	public policy;
36.8 	(2) the agreement was obtained by fraud or falsification;
36.9 	(3) the agreement is incompatible with a support order involving the same parties 
36.10 	and having the same purpose in this state, another state, or a foreign country if the support 
36.11 	order is entitled to recognition and enforcement under this chapter in this state; or
36.12 	(4) the record submitted under paragraph (b) lacks authenticity or integrity.
36.13 	(e) A proceeding for recognition and enforcement of a foreign support agreement 
36.14 	must be suspended during the pendency of a challenge to or appeal of the agreement 
36.15 	before a tribunal of another state or a foreign country.

36.16 	Sec. 65. [518C.711] MODIFICATION OF CONVENTION CHILD SUPPORT 
36.17 	ORDER.
36.18 	(a) A tribunal of this state may not modify a convention child support order if the 
36.19 	obligee remains a resident of the foreign country where the support order was issued 
36.20 	unless:
36.21 	(1) the obligee submits to the jurisdiction of a tribunal of this state, either expressly 
36.22 	or by defending on the merits of the case without objecting to the jurisdiction at the first 
36.23 	available opportunity; or
36.24 	(2) the foreign tribunal lacks or refuses to exercise jurisdiction to modify its support 
36.25 	order or issue a new support order.
36.26 	(b) If a tribunal of this state does not modify a convention child support order 
36.27 	because the order is not recognized in this state, section 518C.708, paragraph (c), applies.

36.28 	Sec. 66. [518C.712] PERSONAL INFORMATION; LIMIT ON USE.
36.29 	Personal information gathered or transmitted under sections 518C.701 to 518C.713 
36.30 	may be used only for the purposes for which it was gathered or transmitted.

36.31 	Sec. 67. [518C.713] RECORD IN ORIGINAL LANGUAGE; ENGLISH 
36.32 	TRANSLATION.
37.1 	A record filed with a tribunal of this state under sections 518C.701 to 518C.713 
37.2 	must be in the original language and, if not in English, must be accompanied by an 
37.3 	English translation.

37.4 	Sec. 68. Minnesota Statutes 2010, section 518C.801, is amended to read:
37.5 	518C.801 GROUNDS FOR RENDITION.
37.6 	(a) For purposes of this article this section and section 518C.802, "governor" 
37.7 	includes an individual performing the functions of governor or the executive authority of 
37.8 	a state covered by this chapter.
37.9 	(b) The governor of this state may:
37.10 	(1) demand that the governor of another state surrender an individual found in the 
37.11 	other state who is charged criminally in this state with having failed to provide for the 
37.12 	support of an obligee; or
37.13 	(2) on the demand by the governor of another state, surrender an individual found in 
37.14 	this state who is charged criminally in the other state with having failed to provide for 
37.15 	the support of an obligee.
37.16 	(c) A provision for extradition of individuals not inconsistent with this chapter 
37.17 	applies to the demand even if the individual whose surrender is demanded was not in the 
37.18 	demanding state when the crime was allegedly committed and has not fled therefrom
37.19 	from the demanding state.

37.20 	Sec. 69. Minnesota Statutes 2010, section 518C.902, is amended to read:
37.21 	518C.902 SHORT TITLE TRANSITIONAL PROVISION.
37.22 	This chapter may be cited as the "Uniform Interstate Family Support Act." applies to 
37.23 	proceedings begun on or after the effective date of this act to establish a support order or 
37.24 	determine parentage of a child or to register, recognize, enforce, or modify a prior support 
37.25 	order, determination, or agreement, whenever issued or entered.

37.26 	Sec. 70. [518C.905] SHORT TITLE.
37.27 	This chapter may be cited as the "Uniform Interstate Family Support Act."

37.28 	Sec. 71. REVISOR'S INSTRUCTION.
 37.29 	The revisor of statutes shall renumber Minnesota Statutes, section 518C.5025, as 
37.30 	Minnesota Statutes, section 518C.502, and Minnesota Statutes, section 518C.508, as 
37.31 	Minnesota Statutes, section 518C.507, and correct any references in Minnesota Statutes or 
37.32 	Minnesota Rules to those sections.

38.1 	Sec. 72.  REPEALER.
 38.2 	Minnesota Statutes 2010, section 518C.502, is repealed.

38.3 	Sec. 73. EFFECTIVE DATE.
 38.4 	This act becomes effective on the date that the United States deposits the instrument 
38.5 	of ratification for the Hague Convention on the International Recovery of Child Support 
38.6 	and Other Forms of Family Maintenance with the Hague Conference on Private 
38.7 	International Law.