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Home » US Law » 2022 Code of Alabama » Title 30 - Marital and Domestic Relations. » Chapter 3D - Uniform Interstate Family Support Act. » Article 1 - General Provisions. » Section 30-3D-105 – Application of Chapter to Resident of Foreign Country and Foreign Support Proceeding.

Section 30-3D-105

Application of chapter to resident of foreign country and foreign support proceeding.

(a) A tribunal of this state shall apply Articles 1 through 6 and, as applicable, Article 7, to a support proceeding involving:

(1) a foreign support order;

(2) a foreign tribunal; or

(3) an obligee, obligor, or child residing in a foreign country.

(b) A tribunal of this state that is requested to recognize and enforce a support order on the basis of comity may apply the procedural and substantive provisions of Articles 1 through 6.

(c) Article 7 applies only to a support proceeding under the Convention. In such a proceeding, if a provision of Article 7 is inconsistent with Articles 1 through 6, Article 7 controls.

(Act 2015-284, §1.)