TITLE 7

SPECIAL PROCEEDINGS

CHAPTER 10

UNIFORM INTERSTATE FAMILY SUPPORT ACT

7-1004A.  application of chapter to resident of foreign country and foreign support proceeding. (1) A tribunal of this state shall apply sections 7-1001 through 7-1058, Idaho Code, and, as applicable, sections 7-1059 through 7-1071, Idaho Code, to a support proceeding involving:

(a)  A foreign support order;

(b)  A foreign tribunal; or

(c)  An obligee, obligor or child residing in a foreign country.

(2)  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 sections 7-1001 through 7-1058, Idaho Code.

(3)  Sections 7-1059 through 7-1071, Idaho Code, apply only to a support proceeding under the convention. In such a proceeding, if a provision of sections 7-1059 through 7-1071, Idaho Code, is inconsistent with sections 7-1001 through 7-1058, Idaho Code, then sections 7-1059 through 7-1071, Idaho Code, control.

History:

[7-1004A, added 2015, 1st E.S., ch. 1, sec. 4, p. 10.]