40-5-1080. Recognition and enforcement of registered convention support order. (1) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (2), a tribunal of this state shall recognize and enforce a registered convention support order.
(2) The following grounds are the only grounds on which a tribunal of this state may refuse recognition and enforcement of a registered convention support order:
(a) recognition and enforcement of the order is manifestly incompatible with public policy, including the failure of the issuing tribunal to observe minimum standards of due process, which include notice and an opportunity to be heard;
(b) the issuing tribunal lacked personal jurisdiction consistent with 40-5-1008;
(c) the order is not enforceable in the issuing country;
(d) the order was obtained by fraud in connection with a matter of procedure;
(e) a record transmitted in accordance with 40-5-1078 lacks authenticity or integrity;
(f) a proceeding between the same parties and having the same purpose is pending before a tribunal of this state and that proceeding was the first to be filed;
(g) the order is incompatible with a more recent support order involving the same parties and having the same purpose if the more recent support order is entitled to recognition and enforcement under this part in this state;
(h) payment, to the extent alleged arrears have been paid in whole or in part;
(i) in a case in which the respondent neither appeared nor was represented in the proceeding in the issuing foreign country:
(i) if the law of that country provides for prior notice of proceedings, the respondent did not have proper notice of the proceedings and an opportunity to be heard; or
(ii) if the law of that country does not provide for prior notice of the proceedings, the respondent did not have proper notice of the order and an opportunity to be heard in a challenge or appeal on fact or law before a tribunal; or
(j) the order was made in violation of 40-5-1083.
(3) If a tribunal of this state does not recognize a convention support order under subsection (2)(b), (2)(d), or (2)(i):
(a) the tribunal may not dismiss the proceedings without allowing a reasonable time for a party to request the establishment of a new convention support order; and
(b) the department of public health and human services shall take all appropriate measures to request a child support order for the obligee if the application for recognition and enforcement was received under 40-5-1076.
History: En. Sec. 13, Ch. 174, L. 2015.
Structure Montana Code Annotated
Chapter 5. Enforcement of Support
Part 10. Uniform Interstate Family Support Act
40-5-1003. State tribunals and support enforcement agency
40-5-1004. Remedies cumulative
40-5-1005. Application of part to resident of foreign country and foreign support proceeding
40-5-1006. and 40-5-1007 reserved
40-5-1008. Bases for jurisdiction over nonresident
40-5-1009. Duration of personal jurisdiction
40-5-1010. Initiating and responding tribunal of state
40-5-1011. Simultaneous proceedings
40-5-1012. Continuing, exclusive jurisdiction to modify child support order
40-5-1013. Continuing jurisdiction to enforce child support order
40-5-1014. Determination of controlling child support order
40-5-1015. Child support orders for two or more obligees
40-5-1016. Credit for payments
40-5-1017. Application of part to nonresident subject to personal jurisdiction
40-5-1018. Continuing, exclusive jurisdiction to modify spousal support order
40-5-1019. and 40-5-1020 reserved
40-5-1021. Proceedings under this part
40-5-1022. Proceeding by minor parent
40-5-1023. Application of law of this state
40-5-1024. Duties of initiating tribunal
40-5-1025. Duties and powers of responding tribunal
40-5-1026. Inappropriate tribunal
40-5-1027. Duties of support enforcement agency
40-5-1028. Duty of attorney general
40-5-1030. Duties of state information agency
40-5-1031. Pleadings and accompanying documents
40-5-1032. Nondisclosure of information in exceptional circumstances
40-5-1034. Limited immunity of petitioner
40-5-1035. Nonparentage as defense
40-5-1036. Special rules of evidence and procedure
40-5-1037. Communications between tribunals
40-5-1038. Assistance with discovery
40-5-1039. Receipt and disbursement of payments
40-5-1040. and 40-5-1041 reserved
40-5-1042. Establishment of support order
40-5-1043. Proceeding to determine parentage
40-5-1044. and 40-5-1045 reserved
40-5-1046. Employer receipt of income-withholding orders of another state
40-5-1047. Employer compliance with income-withholding orders of another state
40-5-1048. Employer compliance with two or more income-withholding orders
40-5-1049. Immunity from civil liability
40-5-1050. Penalties for noncompliance
40-5-1052. Administrative enforcement of orders
40-5-1053. and 40-5-1054 reserved
40-5-1055. Registration of order for enforcement
40-5-1056. Procedure to register order for enforcement
40-5-1057. Effect of registration for enforcement
40-5-1059. Notice of registration of order
40-5-1060. Procedure to contest validity or enforcement of registered support order
40-5-1061. Contest of registration or enforcement
40-5-1063. Procedure to register child support order of another state for modification
40-5-1064. Effect of registration for modification
40-5-1065. Modification of child support order of another state
40-5-1066. Recognition of order modified in another state
40-5-1068. Notice to issuing tribunal of modification
40-5-1069. Jurisdiction to modify child support order of foreign country
40-5-1070. Procedure to register child support order of foreign country for modification
40-5-1071. and 40-5-1072 reserved
40-5-1078. Registration of convention support order
40-5-1079. Contest of registered convention support order
40-5-1080. Recognition and enforcement of registered convention support order
40-5-1081. Partial enforcement
40-5-1082. Foreign support agreement
40-5-1083. Modification of convention child support order
40-5-1084. Personal information -- limit on use
40-5-1085. Record in original language -- English translation
40-5-1086. and 40-5-1087 reserved
40-5-1088. Grounds for rendition
40-5-1089. Conditions of rendition