IC 31-18.5-1-5 : Application to foreign resident, support order, and tribunal

Sec. 5. (a) An Indiana tribunal shall apply this chapter and IC 31-18.5-2 through IC 31-18.5-6 and, as applicable, IC 31-18.5-7, 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) An Indiana tribunal that is requested to recognize and enforce a support order on the basis of comity may apply the procedural and substantive provisions of this chapter and IC 31-18.5-2 through IC 31-18.5-6.

(c) IC 31-18.5-7 applies only to a support proceeding under the Convention. In such a proceeding, if a provision of IC 31-18.5-7 is inconsistent with this chapter or IC 31-18.5-2 through IC 31-18.5-6, IC 31-18.5-7 controls.

As added by P.L.206-2015, SEC.53.