Table of Contents TITLE 40. FAMILY LAW CHAPTER 5. ENFORCEMENT OF SUPPORT Part 1. Uniform Interstate Family Support Act

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40-5-101 — Short title 40-5-103 — Definitions 40-5-143 — Tribunals of this state 40-5-144 — Remedies cumulative 40-5-145 — Bases for jurisdiction ov... 40-5-146 — Procedure when exercising... 40-5-147 — Initiating and responding... 40-5-148 — Simultaneous proceedings... 1 40-5-149 — Continuing, exclusive jur... 40-5-150 — Enforcement and modificat... 40-5-151 — Recognition of child supp... 40-5-152 — Multiple child support or... 40-5-153 — Grounds for rendition 40-5-154 — Conditions of rendition 40-5-157 — Income-withholding orders... 40-5-158 — Proceedings under this pa... 40-5-159 — Action by a minor parent 40-5-160 — Application of law of thi... 40-5-161 — Duties of initiating trib... 40-5-162 — Duties and powers of resp... 40-5-163 — Inappropriate tribunal 40-5-164 — Duties of support enforce... 40-5-165 — Duties of state informati... 40-5-166 — Duty of attorney general 40-5-170 — Private counsel 40-5-171 — Pleadings and accompanyin... 40-5-172 — Nondisclosure of informat... 40-5-173 — Costs and fees 40-5-174 — Nonparentage as defense -... 40-5-175 — Special rules of evidence... 40-5-176 — Communications between tr... 40-5-177 — Assistance with discovery 40-5-178 — Receipt and disbursement... 40-5-179 — Petition to establish sup... 40-5-180 — Administrative enforcemen... 40-5-181 — Credit for payments 40-5-183 — Limited immunity of petit... 40-5-184 — Registration of order for... 40-5-185 — Procedure to register ord... 1 40-5-186 — Effect of registration en... 40-5-187 — Choice of law 40-5-188 — Notice of registration of... 40-5-189 — Procedure to contest vali... 40-5-190 — Contest of registration o... 40-5-191 — Confirmed order 40-5-192 — Procedure to register chi... 40-5-193 — Effect of registration fo... 40-5-194 — Modification of child sup... 40-5-195 — Recognition of order modi... 40-5-196 — Proceeding to determine p... 40-5-197 — Uniformity of interpretat...

Mont. Code Ann. § 40-5-158

(2003)

Proceedings under this part

(1) Except as otherwise provided in this part, 40-5-158 through 40-5-166, 40-5-170 through 40-5-178, 40-5-180, and 40-5-183 apply to all proceedings under this part.

(2) This part provides for the following proceedings:

(a) establishment of an order for spousal support or child support pursuant to 40-5-179;

(b) enforcement of a support order and income-withholding order of another state without registration;

(c) registration of an order for spousal support or child support of another state for enforcement pursuant to 40-5-184 through 40-5-195;

(d) modification of an order for child support or spousal support issued by a tribunal of this state pursuant to 40-5-147 through 40-5-150;

(e) registration of an order for child support of another state for modification pursuant to 40-5-184 through 40-5-195;

(f) determination of parentage pursuant to 40-5-196; and

(g) assertion of jurisdiction over nonresidents pursuant to 40-5-145 and 40-5-146.

(3) An individual or a support enforcement agency may commence a proceeding authorized under this part by filing a petition in an appropriate initiating tribunal for forwarding to a responding tribunal or by filing a petition or a comparable pleading directly in a tribunal of another state that has or can obtain personal jurisdiction over the respondent.

Official Annotations archive.org, 2003 edition

History:

EnactedEn. SectionSec. 15, ChapterCh. 328, Laws ofL. 1993

AmendedAmd. SectionSec. 126, ChapterCh. 546, Laws ofL. 1995

AmendedAmd. SectionSec. 5, ChapterCh. 352, Laws ofL. 2001 (SB 171 - Glaser, Bill (R) SD 8)

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