(a) A petitioner may file a direct request seeking establishment or modification of a support order or determination of parentage of a child. In the proceeding, the law of this state applies.
(b) A petitioner may file a direct request seeking recognition and enforcement of a support order or support agreement. In the proceeding, Sections 30-3D-706 through 30-3D-713 apply.
(c) In a direct request for recognition and enforcement of a Convention support order or foreign support agreement:
(1) a security, bond, or deposit is not required to guarantee the payment of costs and expenses; and
(2) an obligee or obligor that in the issuing country has benefited from free legal assistance is entitled to benefit, at least to the same extent, from any free legal assistance provided for by the law of this state under the same circumstances.
(d) A petitioner filing a direct request is not entitled to assistance from the Department of Human Resources.
(e) This article does not prevent the application of laws of this state that provide simplified, more expeditious rules regarding a direct request for recognition and enforcement of a foreign support order or foreign support agreement.
Structure Code of Alabama
Title 30 - Marital and Domestic Relations.
Chapter 3D - Uniform Interstate Family Support Act.
Article 7 - Support Proceeding Under Convention.
Section 30-3D-701 - Definitions.
Section 30-3D-702 - Applicability.
Section 30-3D-705 - Direct Request.
Section 30-3D-706 - Registration of Convention Support Order.
Section 30-3D-707 - Contest of Registered Convention Support Order.
Section 30-3D-708 - Recognition and Enforcement of Registered Convention Support Order.
Section 30-3D-709 - Partial Enforcement.
Section 30-3D-710 - Foreign Support Agreement.
Section 30-3D-711 - Modification of Convention Child-Support Order.
Section 30-3D-712 - Personal Information; Limit on Use.
Section 30-3D-713 - Record in Original Language; English Translation.