Public Act 93-0479

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    AN ACT in relation to support.

    Be it enacted by the People of  the  State  of  Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:

    Section  5.  The Uniform Interstate Family Support Act is
amended by renumbering Sections 100, 102, 903, 904, and  905;
by changing and renumbering Sections 101 and 103; by changing
Sections  201,  202,  204, 205, 206, 207, 208, 209, 301, 302,
303, 304, 305, 306, 307, 310, 311, 312, 314, 316,  317,  319,
401,  501,  502, 503, 506, 507, 601, 602, 604, 605, 607, 610,
611, 612, 701, 801, 802, and 901;  by  adding  Sections  210,
211,  and 615; by changing the headings of Article 2, Part 1,
Article 2, Part 2, and Article 2, Part 3; and by changing the
heading of Article 6 as follows:

    (750 ILCS 22/101) (was 750 ILCS 22/100)
    Sec. 101. 100.  Short title.  This Act may  be  cited  as
the Uniform Interstate Family Support Act.
(Source: P.A. 88-550, eff. date changed from 1-1-95 to 1-1-96
by P.A. 88-691.)

    (750 ILCS 22/102) (was 750 ILCS 22/101)
    Sec. 102. 101.  Definitions.  In this Act:
    "Child"  means  an  individual, whether over or under the
age of 18, who is or is alleged to be owed a duty of  support
by  the individual's parent or who is or is alleged to be the
beneficiary of a support order directed to the parent.
    "Child-support order" means a support order for a  child,
including a child who has attained the age of 18.
    "Duty   of   support"  means  an  obligation  imposed  or
imposable by law to provide support for a child,  spouse,  or
former  spouse including an unsatisfied obligation to provide
support.
    "Home state" means the state in which a child lived  with
a parent or  a  person  acting  as  parent  for  at  least  6
consecutive  months  immediately preceding the time of filing
of a petition or comparable pleading for support,  and  if  a
child is less than 6 months old, the state in which the child
lived  from  birth  with  any of them.  A period of temporary
absence of any of them is counted as part of the  6-month  or
other period.
    "Income" includes earnings or other periodic entitlements
to  money  from  any source and any other property subject to
withholding for support under the law of this State.
    "Income-withholding order" means an order or other  legal
process directed to an obligor's employer or other debtor, as
defined  by the Illinois Marriage and Dissolution of Marriage
Act,  the  Non-Support  of  Spouse  and  Children  Act,   the
Non-Support Punishment Act, the Illinois Public Aid Code, and
the  Illinois Parentage Act of 1984, to withhold support from
the income of the obligor.
    "Initiating state" means a state from which a  proceeding
is forwarded or in which a proceeding is filed for forwarding
to  a  responding  state under this Act or a law or procedure
substantially similar to this Act.
    "Initiating tribunal" means the authorized tribunal in an
initiating state.
    "Issuing state" means  the  state  in  which  a  tribunal
issues  a  support  order  or  renders a judgment determining
parentage.
    "Issuing tribunal"  means  the  tribunal  that  issues  a
support order or renders a judgment determining parentage.
    "Obligee" means:
         (A) (i)  an  individual to whom a duty of support is
    or is alleged to be owed or  in  whose  favor  a  support
    order   has   been   issued  or  a  judgment  determining
    parentage has been rendered;
         (B) (ii)  a state or political subdivision to  which
    the  rights under a duty of support or support order have
    been assigned or which has independent  claims  based  on
    financial  assistance  provided to an individual obligee;
    or
         (C) (iii)  an   individual   seeking   a    judgment
    determining parentage of the individual's child.
    "Obligor"  means  an  individual,  or  the  estate  of  a
decedent:
              (i)  who  owes  or  is alleged to owe a duty of
         support;
              (ii)  who  is  alleged   but   has   not   been
         adjudicated to be a parent of a child; or
              (iii)  who is liable under a support order.
    "Person means an individual, corporation, business trust,
estate,   trust,   partnership,  limited  liability  company,
association,   joint   venture,   government,    governmental
subdivision,  agency, instrumentality, public corporation, or
any other legal or commercial entity.
    "Record"  means  information  that  is  inscribed  on   a
tangible  medium  or that is stored in an electronic or other
medium and is retrievable in perceivable form.
    "Register" means to record a support  order  or  judgment
determining  parentage in the appropriate Registry of Foreign
Support Orders.
    "Registering  tribunal"  means  a  tribunal  in  which  a
support order is registered.
    "Responding state" means a state in which a proceeding is
filed or to which a proceeding is forwarded for  filing  from
an  initiating  state  under  this  Act or a law or procedure
substantially similar to this Act.
    "Responding tribunal" means the authorized tribunal in  a
responding state.
    "Spousal-support  order"  means  a  support  order  for a
spouse or former spouse of the obligor.
    "State" means a state of the United States, the  District
of  Columbia,  Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands,
or  any  territory  or  insular  possession  subject  to  the
jurisdiction of the United States.  The term includes:
         (A) (i)  an Indian tribe; and
         (B) (ii)  a foreign country or political subdivision
    jurisdiction that:
              (i)  has  been  declared  to   be   a   foreign
         reciprocating country or political subdivision under
         federal law;
              (ii)  has  established a reciprocal arrangement
         for child support with this  State  as  provided  in
         Section 308; or
              (iii)  has   enacted   a   law  or  established
         procedures for issuance and enforcement  of  support
         orders   which  are  substantially  similar  to  the
         procedures under this Act,  the  Uniform  Reciprocal
         Enforcement  of  Support Act, or the Revised Uniform
         Reciprocal Enforcement of Support Act.
    "Support enforcement agency" means a public  official  or
agency authorized to seek:
         (A) (1)  enforcement   of  support  orders  or  laws
    relating to the duty of support;
         (B) (2)  establishment  or  modification  of   child
    support;
         (C) (3)  determination of parentage; or
         (D) (4)  to locate obligors or their assets; or
         (E)  determination  of the controlling child support
    order.
    "Support order" means a judgment, decree,  or  order,  or
directive,   whether   temporary,   final,   or   subject  to
modification, issued by a  tribunal  for  the  benefit  of  a
child,  a  spouse,  or  a  former  spouse, which provides for
monetary support, health care, arrearages, or  reimbursement,
and  may  include  related  costs  and fees, interest, income
withholding, attorney's fees, and other relief.
    "Tribunal"  means  a  court,  administrative  agency,  or
quasi-judicial entity authorized to  establish,  enforce,  or
modify support orders or to determine parentage.
(Source: P.A. 90-240, eff. 7-28-97; 91-613, eff. 10-1-99.)

    (750 ILCS 22/103) (was 750 ILCS 22/102)
    Sec. 103. 102. Tribunal of State.  The circuit court is a
tribunal of this State. The Illinois Department of Public Aid
is an initiating tribunal.  The Illinois Department of Public
Aid is also a responding tribunal of this State to the extent
that   it   can   administratively  establish  paternity  and
establish,   modify,   and    enforce    an    administrative
child-support  order  under  authority  of  Article  X of the
Illinois Public Aid Code.
(Source: P.A. 90-240, eff. 7-28-97.)

    (750 ILCS 22/104) (was 750 ILCS 22/103)
    Sec. 104. 103.  Remedies cumulative.
    (a)  Remedies provided by this Act are cumulative and  do
not  affect  the  availability  of  remedies under other law,
including the recognition of a support  order  of  a  foreign
country or political subdivision on the basis of comity.
    (b)  This Act does not:
         (1)  provide the exclusive method of establishing or
    enforcing a support order under the law of this State; or
         (2)  grant  a tribunal of this State jurisdiction to
    render judgment or  issue  an  order  relating  to  child
    custody or visitation in a proceeding under this Act.
(Source: P.A. 88-550, eff. date changed from 1-1-95 to 1-1-96
by P.A. 88-691.)
    (750 ILCS 22/Art. 2, Part 1 heading)
           PART 1. EXTENDED PERSONAL JURISDICTION

    (750 ILCS 22/201)
    Sec. 201.  Bases for jurisdiction over nonresident.
    (a)  In  a proceeding to establish or, enforce, or modify
a support order or to determine parentage, a tribunal of this
State may exercise personal jurisdiction over  a  nonresident
individual or the individual's guardian or conservator if:
    (1)  the  individual  is  personally  served  with notice
within this State;
    (2)  the individual submits to the jurisdiction  of  this
State  by  consent,  by  entering a general appearance, or by
filing a responsive document having the effect of waiving any
contest to personal jurisdiction;
    (3)  the individual resided with the child in this State;
    (4)  the individual resided in this  State  and  provided
prenatal expenses or support for the child;
    (5)  the  child  resides in this State as a result of the
acts or directives of the individual;
    (6)  the individual engaged in sexual intercourse in this
State and the child may have been conceived by  that  act  of
intercourse;
    (7)  (Blank); or
    (8)  there   is  any  other  basis  consistent  with  the
constitutions of this State and the  United  States  for  the
exercise of personal jurisdiction.
    (b)  The  bases  of  personal  jurisdiction  set forth in
subsection (a) or in any other law of this State may  not  be
used  to  acquire personal jurisdiction for a tribunal of the
State to modify a child support order of another state unless
the requirements of Section 611 or 615 are met.
(Source: P.A. 88-550, eff. date changed from 1-1-95 to 1-1-96
by P.A. 88-691.)
    (750 ILCS 22/202)
    Sec. 202. Duration of  personal  jurisdiction.   Personal
jurisdiction  acquired  by  a  tribunal  of  this  State in a
proceeding under this Act or other law of this State relating
to a support order continues as long as a  tribunal  of  this
State  has  continuing,  exclusive jurisdiction to modify its
order or continuing jurisdiction  to  enforce  its  order  as
provided by Sections 205, 206, and 211.
    Procedure  when exercising jurisdiction over nonresident.
A tribunal of this  State  exercising  personal  jurisdiction
over a nonresident under Section 201 may apply Section 316 to
receive  evidence  from  another  state,  and  Section 318 to
obtain discovery through a tribunal of another state.  In all
other respects, Articles 3 through 7 do  not  apply  and  the
tribunal  shall  apply  the procedural and substantive law of
this State, including the rules on choice of law  other  than
those established by this Act.
(Source: P.A. 88-550, eff. date changed from 1-1-95 to 1-1-96
by P.A. 88-691.)

    (750 ILCS 22/Art. 2, Part 2 heading)
      PART 2. PROCEEDINGS INVOLVING TWO OR MORE STATES

    (750 ILCS 22/204)
    Sec. 204.  Simultaneous proceedings in another state.
    (a)  A  tribunal  of this State may exercise jurisdiction
to establish a support order if the petition is filed after a
petition or comparable pleading is  filed  in  another  state
only if:
         (1)  the  petition in this State is filed before the
    expiration of the time allowed in  the  other  state  for
    filing  a responsive pleading challenging the exercise of
    jurisdiction by the other state;
         (2)  the  contesting  party  timely  challenges  the
    exercise of jurisdiction in the other state; and
         (3)  if relevant, this State is the  home  state  of
    the child.
    (b)  A   tribunal   of   this   State  may  not  exercise
jurisdiction to establish a support order if the petition  is
filed  before  a  petition or comparable pleading is filed in
another state if:
         (1)  the petition  or  comparable  pleading  in  the
    other  state  is  filed before the expiration of the time
    allowed in this State for filing  a  responsive  pleading
    challenging the exercise of jurisdiction by this State;
         (2)  the  contesting  party  timely  challenges  the
    exercise of jurisdiction in this State; and
         (3)  if  relevant, the other state is the home state
    of the child.
(Source: P.A. 88-550, eff. date changed from 1-1-95 to 1-1-96
by P.A. 88-691.)

    (750 ILCS 22/205)
    Sec. 205.  Continuing, exclusive jurisdiction  to  modify
child-support order.
    (a)  A  tribunal  of this State that has issued issuing a
support order consistent with the law of this State  has  and
shall  exercise  continuing, exclusive jurisdiction to modify
its  over  a  child-support  order  if  the  order   is   the
controlling order and:
         (1)  at  the  time  of  the  filing of a request for
    modification  as  long  as  this  State  is  remains  the
    residence of the obligor, the individual obligee, or  the
    child for whose benefit the support order is issued; or
         (2)  even  if this State is not the residence of the
    obligor, the individual obligee, or the child  for  whose
    benefit  the support order is issued, the parties consent
    in a record or in open court that the  tribunal  of  this
    State may continue to exercise the jurisdiction to modify
    its  order  until  all of the parties who are individuals
    have filed written consents with  the  tribunal  of  this
    State for a tribunal of another state to modify the order
    and assume continuing, exclusive jurisdiction.
    (b)  A  tribunal  of this State that has issued issuing a
child-support order consistent with the law of this State may
not exercise its continuing exclusive jurisdiction to  modify
the order if:
         (1)  all  of  the  parties  who are individuals file
    consent in a record with the tribunal of this State  that
    a tribunal of another state that has jurisdiction over at
    least  one of the parties who is an individual or that is
    located in the state of residence of the child may modify
    the order and assume continuing, exclusive  jurisdiction;
    or
         (2)  its  order  is  not  the  controlling order the
    order has been modified by a tribunal  of  another  state
    pursuant to a law substantially similar to this Act.
    (c)  If  a  child-support order of this State is modified
by  a  tribunal  of  another  state   pursuant   to   a   law
substantially  similar  to this Act, a tribunal of this State
loses its continuing, exclusive jurisdiction with  regard  to
prospective  enforcement  of  the order issued in this State,
and may only:
         (1)  enforce the  order  that  was  modified  as  to
    amounts accruing before the modification;
         (2)  enforce  nonmodifiable  aspects  of that order;
    and
         (3)  provide other appropriate relief for violations
    of that order which occurred before the effective date of
    the modification.
    (d)  A  tribunal  of  this  State  shall  recognize   the
continuing,  exclusive  jurisdiction of a tribunal of another
state which has issued a child-support order pursuant to  the
Uniform  Interstate Family Support Act or a law substantially
similar to that this Act which modifies a child-support order
of a tribunal of this State, tribunals of  this  State  shall
recognize  the  continuing,  exclusive  jurisdiction  of  the
tribunal of the other state.
    (d)  A  tribunal  of  this  State  that lacks continuing,
exclusive jurisdiction to modify a  child-support  order  may
serve  as  an  initiating  tribunal  to request a tribunal of
another state to modify a support order issued in that state.
    (e)  A temporary support order issued ex parte or pending
resolution of  a  jurisdictional  conflict  does  not  create
continuing, exclusive jurisdiction in the issuing tribunal.
    (f)  A  tribunal  of  this  State issuing a support order
consistent  with  the  law  of  this  State  has  continuing,
exclusive   jurisdiction   over   a   spousal-support   order
throughout  the  existence  of  the  support  obligation.   A
tribunal of this State may not modify a spousal-support order
issued by a tribunal  of  another  state  having  continuing,
exclusive jurisdiction over  that order under the law of that
state.
(Source: P.A. 90-240, eff. 7-28-97.)

    (750 ILCS 22/206)
    Sec.  206.  Enforcement and modification of support order
by  tribunal  having  Continuing  jurisdiction   to   enforce
child-support order.
    (a)  A   tribunal   of  this  State  that  has  issued  a
child-support order consistent with the law of this State may
serve as an initiating tribunal  to  request  a  tribunal  of
another state to enforce: or modify a support order issued in
that state.
         (1)  the order if the order is the controlling order
    and  has not been modified by a tribunal of another state
    that  assumed  jurisdiction  pursuant  to   the   Uniform
    Interstate Family Support Act; or
         (2)  a  money  judgment  for  arrears of support and
    interest on the order accrued before a determination that
    an order of another state is the controlling order.
    (b)  A  tribunal  of  this   State   having   continuing,
exclusive  jurisdiction  over  a  support  order may act as a
responding tribunal to enforce or modify  the  order.   If  a
party  subject  to  the continuing, exclusive jurisdiction of
the tribunal no longer  resides  in  the  issuing  state,  in
subsequent  proceedings  the  tribunal  may apply Section 316
(Special Rules of Evidence and Procedure) to receive evidence
from  another  state  and  Section   318   (Assistance   with
Discovery)  to obtain discovery through a tribunal of another
state.
    (c)  A tribunal of this  State  which  lacks  continuing,
exclusive  jurisdiction  over a spousal-support order may not
serve as a responding tribunal to  modify  a  spousal-support
order of another state.
(Source: P.A. 90-240, eff. 7-28-97.)

    (750 ILCS 22/Art. 2, Part 3 heading)
                   PART 3. RECONCILIATION
                     OF MULTIPLE ORDERS

    (750 ILCS 22/207)
    Sec.   207.   Determination  Recognition  of  controlling
child-support order.
    (a)  If a proceeding is brought under this Act and   only
one  tribunal  has issued a child-support order, the order of
that tribunal controls and must be so recognized.
    (b)  If a proceeding is brought under this Act,  and  two
or more child-support orders have been issued by tribunals of
this  State  or another state with regard to the same obligor
and same child, a tribunal  of  this  State  having  personal
jurisdiction  over  both  the  obligor and individual obligee
shall apply the following rules and by order shall  determine
in determining which order controls to recognize for purposes
of continuing, exclusive jurisdiction:
         (1)   If  only  one  of   the  tribunals  would have
    continuing, exclusive jurisdiction under  this  Act,  the
    order   of   that   tribunal  controls  and  must  be  so
    recognized.
         (2)  If more than one of the  tribunals  would  have
    continuing, exclusive jurisdiction under this Act:
              (A)  ,  an  order  issued  by a tribunal in the
         current home state of the child controls;  and  must
         be so recognized, but
              (B)  if  an  order  has  not been issued in the
         current home state of  the  child,  the  order  most
         recently issued controls and must be so recognized.
         (3)  If none of the tribunals would have continuing,
    exclusive  jurisdiction  under  this Act, the tribunal of
    this State having jurisdiction  over  the  parties  shall
    issue  a  child-support order, which controls and must be
    so recognized.
    (c)  If two or more child-support orders have been issued
for the same obligor and same child, upon request of  and  if
the  obligor or the individual obligee resides in this State,
a party who is an individual or a support enforcement agency,
may  request  a  tribunal  of  this  State  having   personal
jurisdiction  over both the obligor and the obligee who is an
individual shall to determine which order controls  and  must
be  so  recognized  under  subsection (b). The request may be
filed with a registration for enforcement or registration for
modification pursuant to Article 6, or  may  be  filed  as  a
separate  proceeding.  The  request  must be accompanied by a
certified  copy  of  every  support  order  in  effect.   The
requesting  party  shall  give  notice of the request to each
party whose rights may be affected by the determination.
    (d)  A request to  determine  which  is  the  controlling
order  must  be  accompanied by a copy of every child-support
order in effect and the applicable record of  payments.   The
requesting  party  shall  give  notice of the request to each
party whose rights may be affected by the determination.
    (e)  The tribunal that issued the controlling order under
subsection  (a),  (b),  or  (c)  is  the  tribunal  that  has
continuing, exclusive jurisdiction to the extent provided  in
under Section 205 or 206.
    (f) (e)  A  tribunal  of this State that which determines
by order which is the identity of the controlling order under
subsection (b)(1) or (2) or (c), or that which issues  a  new
controlling  order  under  subsection  (b)(3), shall state in
that order:
         (1)  the basis upon  which  the  tribunal  made  its
    determination;
         (2)  the amount of prospective support, if any; and
         (3)  the  total  amount  of consolidated arrears and
    accrued interest, if any, under all of the  orders  after
    all  payments  made  are  credited as provided by Section
    209.
    (g) (f)  Within  30  days  after  issuance  of  an  order
determining which is the identity of the  controlling  order,
the  party obtaining the order shall file a certified copy of
it in with each tribunal that issued or registered an earlier
order of child support. A party or support enforcement agency
obtaining who obtains the order that  and  fails  to  file  a
certified  copy  is  subject  to  appropriate  sanctions by a
tribunal in which the issue of failure to  file  arises.  The
failure   to   file   does   not   affect   the  validity  or
enforceability of the controlling order.
    (h)  An  order  that  has  been  determined  to  be   the
controlling  order, or a judgment for consolidated arrears of
support and interest, if any, made pursuant to  this  Section
must be recognized in proceedings under this Act.
(Source: P.A. 90-240, eff. 7-28-97.)

    (750 ILCS 22/208)
    Sec.  208.  Multiple Child-support orders for two or more
obligees.   In  responding  to  multiple   registrations   or
petitions for enforcement of two or more child support orders
in  effect  at  the same time with regard to the same obligor
and different individual obligees, at least one of which  was
issued  by  a  tribunal  of another state, a tribunal of this
State shall enforce those orders in the same manner as if the
multiple orders had been issued by a tribunal of this State.
(Source: P.A. 90-240, eff. 7-28-97.)

    (750 ILCS 22/209)
    Sec. 209.  Credit for payments. A tribunal of this  State
shall  credit  amounts  Amounts  collected and credited for a
particular period pursuant to any child-support order against
the  amounts  owed  for  the  same  period  under  any  other
child-support order for support of the same child  a  support
order  issued  by a tribunal of this or another state must be
credited against the amounts accruing or accrued for the same
period under a support order issued by the tribunal  of  this
State.
(Source: P.A. 88-550, eff. date changed from 1-1-95 to 1-1-96
by P.A. 88-691.)

    (750 ILCS 22/210 new)
    Sec.  210.  Application  of Act to nonresident subject to
personal jurisdiction. A tribunal of  this  State  exercising
personal  jurisdiction  over  a  nonresident  in a proceeding
under this Act, under other law of this State relating  to  a
support  order,  or  recognizing a support order of a foreign
country or political subdivision on the basis of  comity  may
receive  evidence from another state pursuant to Section 316,
communicate with a tribunal  of  another  state  pursuant  to
Section  317,  and  obtain  discovery  through  a tribunal of
another state pursuant to Section 318. In all other respects,
Articles 3 through 7 do not  apply  and  the  tribunal  shall
apply the procedural and substantive law of this State.

    (750 ILCS 22/211 new)
    Sec.  211.  Continuing,  exclusive jurisdiction to modify
spousal-support order.
    (a)  A tribunal of this State issuing  a  spousal-support
order  consistent  with the law of this State has continuing,
exclusive jurisdiction to modify  the  spousal-support  order
throughout the existence of the support obligation.
    (b)  A   tribunal   of   this  State  may  not  modify  a
spousal-support order issued by a tribunal of  another  state
having  continuing,  exclusive  jurisdiction  over that order
under the law of that state.
    (c)  A  tribunal  of  this  State  that  has  continuing,
exclusive jurisdiction over a spousal-support order may serve
as:
         (1)  an initiating tribunal to request a tribunal of
    another state to enforce the spousal-support order issued
    in this State; or
         (2)  a responding tribunal to enforce or modify  its
    own spousal-support order.

    (750 ILCS 22/301)
    Sec. 301.  Proceedings under Act.
    (a)  Except  as  otherwise  provided  in  this  Act, this
Article applies to all proceedings under this Act.
    (b)  This Act provides for the following proceedings:
         (1)  establishment of an order for  spousal  support
    or child support pursuant to Article 4;
         (2)  enforcement    of    a    support   order   and
    income-withholding  order  of   another   state   without
    registration pursuant to Article 5;
         (3)  registration of an order for spousal support or
    child  support  of another state for enforcement pursuant
    to Article 6;
         (4)  modification of an order for child  support  or
    spousal  support  issued  by  a  tribunal  of  this State
    pursuant to Article 2, Part 2;
         (5)  registration of an order for child  support  of
    another state for modification pursuant to Article 6;
         (6)  determination  of parentage pursuant to Article
    7; and
         (7)  assertion  of  jurisdiction  over  nonresidents
    pursuant to Article 2, Part 1.
    (c)  An  individual  obligee  or  a  support  enforcement
agency may initiate commence a  proceeding  authorized  under
this  Act  by filing a petition in an initiating tribunal for
forwarding to  a responding tribunal or by filing a  petition
or  a  comparable  pleading directly in a tribunal of another
state which has or can obtain personal jurisdiction over  the
obligor.
(Source: P.A. 90-240, eff. 7-28-97.)

    (750 ILCS 22/302)
    Sec.  302.  Proceeding  Action  by minor parent.  A minor
parent or a guardian or other legal representative of a minor
parent may maintain a proceeding on  behalf  of  or  for  the
benefit of the minor's child.
(Source: P.A. 88-550, eff. date changed from 1-1-95 to 1-1-96
by P.A. 88-691.)
    (750 ILCS 22/303)
    Sec.  303.   Application  of  law  of  State.   Except as
otherwise provided in by this Act, a responding  tribunal  of
this State shall:
    (1)  shall  apply  the  procedural  and  substantive law,
including the rules on choice of law, generally applicable to
similar  proceedings  originating  in  this  State  and   may
exercise  all  powers  and  provide all remedies available in
those proceedings; and
    (2)  shall determine the duty of support and  the  amount
payable  in accordance with the law and support guidelines of
this State.
(Source: P.A. 90-240, eff. 7-28-97.)

    (750 ILCS 22/304)
    Sec. 304.  Duties of initiating tribunal.
    (a)  Upon the filing of a  petition  authorized  by  this
Act, an initiating tribunal of this State shall forward three
copies of the petition and its accompanying documents:
         (1)  to   the  responding  tribunal  or  appropriate
    support enforcement agency in the responding state; or
         (2)  if the identity of the responding  tribunal  is
    unknown,   to   the   state  information  agency  of  the
    responding state with a request that they be forwarded to
    the   appropriate   tribunal   and   that   receipt    be
    acknowledged.
    (b)  If   requested  by  the  responding  tribunal,  a  a
responding state has  not  enacted  this  Act  or  a  law  or
procedure  substantially  similar  to this Act, a tribunal of
this State shall may issue a certificate  or  other  document
and  make  findings  required  by  the  law of the responding
state. If the  responding  state  is  a  foreign  country  or
political subdivision jurisdiction, upon request the tribunal
shall  may specify the amount of support sought, convert that
amount into the equivalent amount  in  the  foreign  currency
under applicable official or market exchange rate as publicly
reported,  and  and  provide any other documents necessary to
satisfy the requirements of the responding state.
(Source: P.A. 90-240, eff. 7-28-97.)

    (750 ILCS 22/305)
    Sec. 305.  Duties and powers of responding tribunal.
    (a)  When a responding tribunal of this State receives  a
petition  or  comparable pleading from an initiating tribunal
or directly pursuant to Section 301(b)(c), it shall cause the
petition or pleading to be filed and notify the obligee where
and when it was filed.
    (b)  A responding tribunal of this State, to  the  extent
not  prohibited otherwise authorized by other law, may do one
or more of the following:
         (1)  issue or enforce  a  support  order,  modify  a
    child-support    order,    determine    the   controlling
    child-support order, or render a  judgment  to  determine
    parentage;
         (2)  order  an  obligor  to  comply  with  a support
    order,  specifying  the  amount   and   the   manner   of
    compliance;
         (3)  order income withholding;
         (4)  determine  the  amount  of  any arrearages, and
    specify a method of payment;
         (5)  enforce orders by civil or  criminal  contempt,
    or both;
         (6)  set  aside  property  for  satisfaction  of the
    support  order;
         (7)  place  liens  and  order   execution   on   the
    obligor's property;
         (8)  order  an obligor to keep the tribunal informed
    of the obligor's current residential  address,  telephone
    number,  employer,  address  of employment, and telephone
    number at the place of employment;
         (9)  issue a bench warrant for an  obligor  who  has
    failed after proper notice to appear at a hearing ordered
    by  the tribunal and enter the bench warrant in any local
    and state computer systems for criminal warrants;
         (10)  order  the   obligor   to   seek   appropriate
    employment by specified methods;
         (11)  award  reasonable  attorney's  fees  and other
    fees and costs;  and
         (12)  grant any other available remedy.
    (c)  A responding tribunal of this State shall include in
a support order issued under this Act, or  in  the  documents
accompanying the order, the calculations on which the support
order is based.
    (d)  A   responding   tribunal  of  this  State  may  not
condition the payment of a support order  issued  under  this
Act   upon   compliance   by  a  party  with  provisions  for
visitation.
    (e)  If a responding tribunal of  this  State  issues  an
order  under  this Act, the tribunal shall send a copy of the
order to the obligee and the obligor and  to  the  initiating
tribunal, if any.
    (f)  If requested to enforce a support order, arrears, or
judgement  or  modify  a  support  order  stated in a foreign
currency, a responding tribunal of this State  shall  convert
the  amount  stated in the foreign currency to the equivalent
amount in dollars under the  applicable  official  or  market
exchange rate as publicly reported.
(Source: P.A. 90-240, eff. 7-28-97.)

    (750 ILCS 22/306)
    Sec.  306.   Inappropriate  tribunal.   If  a petition or
comparable pleading is received by an inappropriate  tribunal
of this State, it the tribunal shall forward the pleading and
accompanying   documents  to  an appropriate tribunal in this
State or another state and notify the obligee where and  when
the pleading was sent.
(Source: P.A. 90-240, eff. 7-28-97.)

    (750 ILCS 22/307)
    Sec. 307.  Duties of support enforcement agency.
    (a)  A  support  enforcement  agency  of this State, upon
request,  shall  provide  services  to  a  petitioner  in   a
proceeding  under  this  Act. This subsection does not affect
any ability  the  support  enforcement  agency  may  have  to
require  an application for services, charge fees, or recover
costs  in  accordance  with  federal   or   State   law   and
regulations.
    (b)  A  support  enforcement  agency  that  is  providing
services to the petitioner as appropriate shall:
         (1)  take   all   steps   necessary   to  enable  an
    appropriate tribunal in this State or  another  state  to
    obtain jurisdiction over the respondent;
         (2)  request  an appropriate tribunal to set a date,
    time, and place for a hearing;
         (3)  make a reasonable effort to obtain all relevant
    information,  including  information  as  to  income  and
    property of the parties;
         (4)  within  10  days,   exclusive   of   Saturdays,
    Sundays,  and  legal holidays, after receipt of a written
    notice in a record from  an  initiating,  responding,  or
    registering  tribunal,  send  a copy of the notice to the
    petitioner;
         (5)  within  10  days,   exclusive   of   Saturdays,
    Sundays,  and  legal holidays, after receipt of a written
    communication in a record  from  the  respondent  or  the
    respondent's  attorney,  send a copy of the communication
    to the petitioner; and
         (6)  notify the petitioner if jurisdiction over  the
    respondent cannot be obtained.
    (c)  A  support  enforcement  agency  of  this State that
requests registration of a child-support order in this  State
for  enforcement  or  for  modification shall make reasonable
efforts:
         (1)  to ensure that the order to  be  registered  is
    the controlling order; or
         (2)  if  two  or more child-support orders exist and
    the identity  of  the  controlling  order  has  not  been
    determined,   to   ensure  that  a  request  for  such  a
    determination is made in a tribunal  having  jurisdiction
    to do so.
    (d)  A  support  enforcement  agency  of  this State that
requests registration and enforcement  of  a  support  order,
arrears,  or  judgement  stated  in  a foreign currency shall
convert the amounts stated in the foreign currency  into  the
equivalent  amounts  in dollars under the applicable official
or market exchange rate as publicly reported.
    (e)  A support enforcement agency  of  this  State  shall
issue  or  request  a  tribunal  of  this  State  to  issue a
child-support order  and  an  income-withholding  order  that
redirect payment of current support, arrears, and interest if
requested to do so by a support enforcement agency of another
state  pursuant  to  Section  319  of  the Uniform Interstate
Family Support Act.
    (f) (c)  This  Act  does   not   create   or   negate   a
relationship  of  attorney  and  client  or  other  fiduciary
relationship  between  a  support  enforcement  agency or the
attorney for the agency and the individual being assisted  by
the agency.
(Source: P.A. 90-240, eff. 7-28-97.)
    (750 ILCS 22/310)
    Sec.  310.   Duties  of the Illinois Department of Public
Aid.
    (a)  The Illinois Department of Public Aid is  the  state
information agency under this Act.
    (b)  The state information agency shall:
         (1)  compile  and maintain a current list, including
    addresses, of the tribunals  in  this  State  which  have
    jurisdiction  under  this Act and any support enforcement
    agencies in this State and transmit a copy to  the  state
    information agency of every other state;
         (2)  maintain  a  register of names and addresses of
    tribunals and support enforcement agencies received  from
    other states;
         (3)  forward  to  the  appropriate  tribunal  in the
    county place  in  this  State  in  which  the  individual
    obligee  who  is an individual or the obligor resides, or
    in  which  the  obligor's  property  is  believed  to  be
    located, all documents concerning a proceeding under this
    Act received from an initiating  tribunal  or  the  state
    information agency of the initiating state; and
         (4)  obtain  information  concerning the location of
    the obligor and the obligor's property within this  State
    not  exempt  from  execution,  by  such  means  as postal
    verification  and  federal  or  state  locator  services,
    examination of telephone directories,  requests  for  the
    obligor's  address  from  employers,  and  examination of
    governmental  records,  including,  to  the  extent   not
    prohibited by other law, those relating to real property,
    vital   statistics,   law  enforcement,  taxation,  motor
    vehicles, driver's licenses, and social security.
    (c)  The Illinois Department of Public Aid may  determine
that   a   foreign   country  or  political  subdivision  has
established a reciprocal arrangement for child  support  with
Illinois and take appropriate action for notification of this
determination.
(Source: P.A. 88-550, eff. date changed from 1-1-95 to 1-1-96
by P.A. 88-691.)

    (750 ILCS 22/311)
    Sec. 311.  Pleadings and accompanying documents.
    (a)  In  a  proceeding  under  this  Act,  a A petitioner
seeking  to  establish  or  modify  a  support  order  or  to
determine parentage or to register and modify a support order
of another state in a proceeding under this Act must  file  a
verify  the  petition. Unless otherwise ordered under Section
312, the petition or accompanying documents must provide,  so
far  as  known,  the  name,  residential  address, and social
security numbers of the respondent and the petitioner or  the
parent  and  alleged  parent,  and the name, sex, residential
address, social security number, and date of  birth  of  each
child  for  whose  benefit  whom  support  is sought or whose
parentage is to be determined.  Unless filed at the  time  of
registration, the petition must be accompanied by a certified
copy  of  any  support  order  known  to  have been issued by
another tribunal in effect.  The  petition  may  include  any
other  information that may assist in locating or identifying
the respondent.
    (b)  The petition must specify the  relief  sought.   The
petition    and    accompanying    documents   must   conform
substantially with the  requirements  imposed  by  the  forms
mandated  by  federal law for use in cases filed by a support
enforcement agency.
(Source: P.A. 88-550, eff. date changed from 1-1-95 to 1-1-96
by P.A. 88-691; 88-691, eff. 1-24-95.)

    (750 ILCS 22/312)
    Sec. 312.  Nondisclosure of  information  in  exceptional
circumstances.  If  a  party  alleges  in  an  affidavit or a
pleading under oath that the health, safety, or liberty of  a
party or child would be jeopardized by disclosure of specific
identifying  information, that information must be sealed and
may not be disclosed to the other party or  public.  After  a
hearing  in  which  a  tribunal  takes into consideration the
health, safety,  or  liberty  of  the  party  or  child,  the
tribunal   may  order  disclosure  of  information  that  the
tribunal determines to be in the interest of justice. Upon  a
finding, which may be made ex parte, that the health, safety,
or  liberty  of a party or child would be unreasonably put at
risk by the disclosure of identifying information, or  if  an
existing  order  so provides, a tribunal shall order that the
address  of  the  child  or  party   or   other   identifying
information  not be disclosed in a pleading or other document
filed in a proceeding under this Act.
(Source: P.A. 88-550, eff. date changed from 1-1-95 to 1-1-96
by P.A. 88-691.)

    (750 ILCS 22/314)
    Sec. 314.  Limited immunity of petitioner.
    (a)  Participation by a petitioner in a proceeding  under
this  Act before a responding tribunal, whether in person, by
private attorney, or through services provided by the support
enforcement agency, does  not  confer  personal  jurisdiction
over the petitioner in another proceeding.
    (b)  A  petitioner  is  not  amenable to service of civil
process while physically present in this State to participate
in a proceeding under this Act.
    (c)  The immunity granted by this Section does not extend
to civil litigation based on acts unrelated to  a  proceeding
under  this  Act  committed  by a party while present in this
State to participate in the proceeding.
(Source: P.A. 88-550, eff. date changed from 1-1-95 to 1-1-96
by P.A. 88-691; 88-691, eff. 1-24-95.)

    (750 ILCS 22/316)
    Sec. 316.  Special rules of evidence and procedure.
    (a)  The physical presence of a nonresident party who  is
an individual the petitioner in a responding tribunal of this
State  is not required for the establishment, enforcement, or
modification of  a  support  order  or  the  rendition  of  a
judgment determining parentage.
    (b)  An   A  verified  petition,  affidavit,  a  document
substantially complying with federally mandated forms, or and
a  document incorporated by reference in any of  them,  which
would  not  be  excluded  under  the hearsay rule if given in
person, is admissible in evidence if given under  penalty  of
perjury oath by a party or witness residing in another state.
    (c)  A  copy  of  the  record  of  child-support payments
certified as a true copy of the original by the custodian  of
the  record  may  be forwarded to a responding tribunal.  The
copy is evidence of facts asserted in it, and  is  admissible
to show whether payments were made.
    (d)  Copies  of  bills for testing for parentage, and for
prenatal and postnatal health care of the mother  and  child,
furnished to the adverse party at least 10 days before trial,
are admissible in evidence to prove the amount of the charges
billed  and  that the charges were reasonable, necessary, and
customary.
    (e)  Documentary evidence transmitted from another  state
to  a  tribunal  of  this  State by telephone, telecopier, or
other means that do not provide an  original  record  writing
may  not  be  excluded from evidence on an objection based on
the means of transmission.
    (f)  In a proceeding under this Act, a tribunal  of  this
State shall may permit a party or witness residing in another
state  to  be deposed or to testify by telephone, audiovisual
means, or other electronic means at a designated tribunal  or
other location in that state.  A tribunal of this State shall
cooperate  with  tribunals  of other states in designating an
appropriate location for the deposition or testimony.
    (g)  If a party called to  testify  at  a  civil  hearing
refuses  to  answer  on  the ground that the testimony may be
self-incriminating, the trier of fact  may  draw  an  adverse
inference from the refusal.
    (h)  A  privilege  against  disclosure  of communications
between spouses does not apply in  a  proceeding  under  this
Act.
    (i)  The defense of immunity based on the relationship of
husband  and  wife  or  parent  and child does not apply in a
proceeding under this Act.
    (j)  A voluntary acknowledgment of  paternity,  certified
as  a  true copy, is admissible to establish parentage of the
child.
(Source: P.A. 90-240, eff. 7-28-97.)

    (750 ILCS 22/317)
    Sec. 317.  Communications between tribunals.  A  tribunal
of  this  State  may  communicate  with a tribunal of another
state or foreign country or political subdivision in a record
writing,  or  by  telephone  or  other   means,   to   obtain
information  concerning  the  laws  of  that state, the legal
effect of a judgment, decree, or order of that tribunal,  and
the  status  of  a  proceeding  in the other state or foreign
country or political subdivision.  A tribunal of  this  State
may  furnish  similar  information  by  similar  means  to  a
tribunal  of  another  state  or foreign country or political
subdivision.
(Source: P.A. 88-550, eff. date changed from 1-1-95 to 1-1-96
by P.A. 88-691.)
    (750 ILCS 22/319)
    Sec.  319.   Receipt  and  disbursement  of  payments.  A
support enforcement agency or tribunal of  this  State  shall
disburse  promptly any amounts received pursuant to a support
order, as directed by the  order.   The  agency  or  tribunal
shall  furnish  to  a requesting party or tribunal of another
state a certified statement by the custodian of the record of
the amounts and dates of all payments received.
    (b)  If neither the obligor, nor the obligee  who  is  an
individual, nor the child resides in this State, upon request
from  the support enforcement agency of this State or another
state, the support enforcement agency  of  this  State  or  a
tribunal of this State shall:
         (1)  direct  that the support payment be made to the
    support enforcement agency in  the  state  in  which  the
    obligee is receiving services; and
         (2)  issue  and  send  to  the  obligor's employer a
    conforming income-withholding order or an  administrative
    notice  of  change  of  payee,  reflecting the redirected
    payments.
         (3)  The support enforcement agency  of  this  State
    receiving redirected payments from another state pursuant
    to  a  law  similar  to subsection (b) shall furnish to a
    requesting  party  or  tribunal  of  the  other  state  a
    certified statement by the custodian of the record of the
    amount and dates of all payments received.
(Source: P.A. 88-550, eff. date changed from 1-1-95 to 1-1-96
by P.A. 88-691.)

    (750 ILCS 22/401)
    Sec. 401.  Petition to establish support order.
    (a)  If a support order  entitled  to  recognition  under
this  Act  has not been issued, a responding tribunal of this
State may issue a support order if:
         (1)  the individual seeking  the  order  resides  in
    another state; or
         (2)  the  support  enforcement  agency  seeking  the
    order is located in another state.
    (b)  The  tribunal  may  issue  a temporary child-support
order if the  tribunal  determines  that  such  an  order  is
appropriate and the individual ordered to pay is:
         (1)  a presumed father of the child;
         (2)  petitioning to have his paternity adjudicated;
         (3)  identified  as  the father of the child through
    genetic testing;
         (4)  an alleged father who has declined to submit to
    genetic testing;
         (5)  shown by clear and convincing  evidence  to  be
    the father of the child;
         (6)  an   acknowledged   father   as   provided   by
    applicable State law;
         (7)  the mother of the child; or
         (8)  an individual who has been ordered to pay child
    support  in  a  previous proceeding and the order has not
    been reversed or vacated.
         (1)  the respondent has signed a verified  statement
    acknowledging parentage;
         (2)  the   respondent  has  been  determined  by  or
    pursuant to law to be the parent; or
         (3)  there is other clear  and  convincing  evidence
    that the respondent is the child's parent.
    (c)  Upon  finding,  after  notice  and opportunity to be
heard, that a respondent owes a duty of support, the tribunal
shall issue a support order directed to  the  respondent  and
may issue other orders pursuant to Section 305.
(Source: P.A. 90-240, eff. 7-28-97.)

    (750 ILCS 22/501)
    Sec. 501.  Employer's receipt of income-withholding order
of  another  state.  An  income-withholding  order  issued in
another state may be sent by or on behalf of the obligee,  or
by  the  support  enforcement agency, to the person or entity
defined    as    the    obligor's    employer    under    the
income-withholding law of this State without first  filing  a
petition or comparable pleading or registering the order with
a tribunal of this State.
(Source: P.A. 90-240, eff. 7-28-97.)

    (750 ILCS 22/502)
    Sec.  502.  Employer's compliance with income-withholding
order of another state.
    (a)  Upon receipt of  an  income-withholding  order,  the
obligor's  employer  shall  immediately provide a copy of the
order to the obligor.
    (b)  The employer shall treat an income-withholding order
issued in another state which appears regular on its face  as
if it had been issued by a tribunal of this State.
    (c)  Except  as  otherwise provided in subsection (d) and
Section 503 the employer shall withhold  and  distribute  the
funds  as directed in the withholding order by complying with
terms of the order which specify:
         (1)  the duration and amount of periodic payments of
    current child-support, stated as a sum certain;
         (2)  the person  or  agency  designated  to  receive
    payments  and the address to which the payments are to be
    forwarded;
         (3)  medical  support,  whether  in  the   form   of
    periodic  cash  payment,  stated  as  a  sum  certain, or
    ordering the obligor to provide health insurance coverage
    for the  child  under  a  policy  available  through  the
    obligor's employment;
         (4)  the  amount  of  periodic  payments of fees and
    costs for  a  support  enforcement  agency,  the  issuing
    tribunal,  and  the  obligee's  attorney,  stated as sums
    certain; and
         (5)  the amount of periodic payments  of  arrearages
    and interest on arrearages, stated as sums certain.
    (d)  An  employer  shall comply with the law of the state
of  the  obligor's  principal   place   of   employment   for
withholding from income with respect to:
         (1)  the    employer's   fee   for   processing   an
    income-withholding order;
         (2)  the maximum amount  permitted  to  be  withheld
    from the obligor's income; and
         (3)  the   times  within  which  the  employer  must
    implement the withholding order  and  forward  the  child
    support payment.
(Source: P.A. 90-240, eff. 7-28-97.)

    (750 ILCS 22/503)
    Sec.   503.  Employer's   compliance  with  two  or  more
multiple income-withholding orders. If an obligor's  employer
receives  two or more multiple income-withholding orders with
respect to the earnings of the  same  obligor,  the  employer
satisfies  the  terms  of the multiple orders if the employer
complies with the law of the state of the obligor's principal
place  of  employment  to  establish   the   priorities   for
withholding  and  allocating  income withheld for two or more
multiple child support obligees.
(Source: P.A. 90-240, eff. 7-28-97.)

    (750 ILCS 22/506)
    Sec. 506.  Contest by obligor.
    (a)  An obligor may contest the validity  or  enforcement
of  an  income-withholding  order issued in another state and
received directly by an employer in this State by registering
the order in a tribunal of this State and filing a contest to
that order as provided in Article 6, or otherwise  contesting
the  order in the same manner as if the order had been issued
by a tribunal of this  State.  Section  604  applies  to  the
contest.
    (b)  The obligor shall give notice of the contest to:
         (1) a  support enforcement agency providing services
    to the obligee;
         (2)  each employer that  has  directly  received  an
    income-withholding order relating to the obligor; and
         (3)  the  person  or  agency  designated  to receive
    payments in the income-withholding order or if no  person
    or agency is designated, to the obligee.
(Source: P.A. 90-240, eff. 7-28-97.)

    (750 ILCS 22/507)
    Sec. 507.  Administrative enforcement of orders.
    (a)  A  party  or  support  enforcement agency seeking to
enforce a support order or an  income-withholding  order,  or
both,  issued  by  a  tribunal  of another state may send the
documents required for registering the  order  to  a  support
enforcement agency of this State.
    (b)  Upon   receipt   of   the   documents,  the  support
enforcement agency, without initially seeking to register the
order,  shall  consider  and,   if   appropriate,   use   any
administrative  procedure authorized by the law of this State
to enforce a support order or an income-withholding order, or
both.   If  the  obligor  does  not  contest   administrative
enforcement,  the  order  need  not  be  registered.   If the
obligor contests the validity or  administrative  enforcement
of  the  order, the support enforcement agency shall register
the order pursuant to this Act.
(Source: P.A. 90-240, eff. 7-28-97.)
    (750 ILCS 22/Art. 6 heading)
                         ARTICLE 6.
               REGISTRATION, ENFORCEMENT, AND
                MODIFICATION OF SUPPORT ORDER
                     AFTER REGISTRATION

    (750 ILCS 22/601)
    Sec. 601.   Registration  of  order  for  enforcement.  A
support  order  or  an  income-withholding  order issued by a
tribunal of another state may be registered in this State for
enforcement.
(Source: P.A. 88-550, eff. date changed from 1-1-95 to 1-1-96
by P.A. 88-691.)

    (750 ILCS 22/602)
    Sec. 602.  Procedure to register order for enforcement.
    (a)  A  support  order  or  income-withholding  order  of
another state may be registered in this State by sending  the
following   records   documents   and   information   to  the
appropriate tribunal in this State:
         (1)  a  letter  of  transmittal  to   the   tribunal
    requesting registration and enforcement;
         (2)  2  copies, including one certified copy, of the
    order  all  orders  to  be  registered,   including   any
    modification of the an order;
         (3)  a  sworn  statement  by  the  person requesting
    party seeking registration or a  certified  statement  by
    the  custodian  of  the records showing the amount of any
    arrearage;
         (4)  the name of the obligor and, if known:
              (i)  the obligor's address and social  security
         number;
              (ii)  the  name  and  address  of the obligor's
         employer and any  other  source  of  income  of  the
         obligor; and
              (iii)  a   description   and  the  location  of
         property of the obligor in  this  State  not  exempt
         from execution; and
         (5)  except  as  otherwise  provided in Section 312,
    the name and address of the obligee and,  if  applicable,
    the  agency  or person to whom support payments are to be
    remitted.
    (b)  On  receipt  of  a  request  for  registration,  the
registering tribunal shall cause the order to be filed  as  a
foreign judgment, together with one copy of the documents and
information, regardless of their form.
    (c)  A  petition  or comparable pleading seeking a remedy
that must be affirmatively sought under  other  law  of  this
State  may  be  filed  at  the  same  time as the request for
registration or later.  The pleading must specify the grounds
for the remedy sought.
    (d)  If two or more orders  are  in  effect,  the  person
requesting registration shall:
         (1)  furnish to the tribunal a copy of every support
    order  asserted  to  be  in  effect  in  addition  to the
    documents specified in this Section;
         (2)  specify the order alleged to be the controlling
    order, if any; and
         (3)  specify the amount of consolidated arrears,  if
    any.
    (e)  A  request  for  a  determination  of  which  is the
controlling order may be filed separately or with  a  request
for  registration  and  enforcement  or  for registration and
modification.  The person requesting registration shall  give
notice  of  the  request  to  each  party whose rights may be
affected by the determination.
(Source: P.A. 92-463, eff. 8-22-01.)
    (750 ILCS 22/604)
    Sec. 604.  Choice of law.
    (a)  Except as otherwise provided in subsection (d),  the
law of the issuing state governs:
         (1)  the  nature,  extent,  amount,  and duration of
    current payments under a registered  support  order;  and
    other obligations of support and
         (2)  the  computation  and payment of arrearages and
    accrual of interest on the arrearages under  the  support
    order; and
         (3)  the   existence   and   satisfaction  of  other
    obligations under the support order.
    (b)  In a  proceeding  for  arrears  under  a  registered
support order arrearages, the statute of limitation under the
laws  of  this  State  or  of the issuing state, whichever is
longer, applies.
    (c)  A responding tribunal of this State shall apply  the
procedures  and  remedies  of  this  State to enforce current
support and collect arrears and interest  due  on  a  support
order of another state registered in this State.
    (d)  After a tribunal of this or another state determines
which   is   the   controlling  order  and  issues  an  order
consolidating arrears, if any, a tribunal of this State shall
prospectively  apply  the  law  of  the  state  issuing   the
controlling  order, including its law on interest on arrears,
on current and future support, and on consolidated arrears.
(Source: P.A. 88-550, eff. date changed from 1-1-95 to 1-1-96
by P.A. 88-691.)

    (750 ILCS 22/605)
    Sec. 605.  Notice of registration of order.
    (a)  When a support  order  or  income-withholding  order
issued  in  another  state  is  registered,  the  registering
tribunal  shall  notify  the nonregistering party. The notice
must be accompanied by a copy of the registered order and the
documents and relevant information accompanying the order.
    (b)  A The notice must inform the nonregistering party:
         (1)  that a registered order is  enforceable  as  of
    the  date  of registration in the same manner as an order
    issued by a tribunal of this State;
         (2)  that a  hearing  to  contest  the  validity  or
    enforcement  of  the  registered  order must be requested
    within 20 days after the  date  of  mailing  or  personal
    service of the notice;
         (3)  that   failure   to  contest  the  validity  or
    enforcement of the registered order in  a  timely  manner
    will  result in confirmation of the order and enforcement
    of the order and the  alleged  arrearages  and  precludes
    further  contest of that order with respect to any matter
    that could have been asserted; and
         (4)  of the amount of any alleged arrearages.
    (c)  If the registering party asserts that  two  or  more
orders are in effect, a notice must also:
         (1)  identify  the  two or more orders and the order
    alleged by the registering person to be  the  controlling
    order and the consolidated arrears, if any;
         (2)  notify the nonregistering party of the right to
    a determination of which is the controlling order;
         (3)  state   that   the   procedures   provided   in
    subsection (b) apply to the determination of which is the
    controlling order; and
         (4)  state  that  failure to contest the validity or
    enforcement of the order alleged to  be  the  controlling
    order  in a timely manner may result in confirmation that
    the order is the controlling order.
    (d) (c)  Upon registration of an income-withholding order
for enforcement, the registering tribunal  shall  notify  the
obligor's  employer  pursuant  to  the Income Withholding for
Support Act.
(Source: P.A. 90-240, eff.  7-28-97;  90-655,  eff.  7-30-98;
90-673, eff. 1-1-99; 91-357, eff. 7-29-99.)

    (750 ILCS 22/607)
    Sec. 607.  Contest of registration or enforcement.
    (a)  A  party contesting the validity or enforcement of a
registered order or seeking to vacate  the  registration  has
the burden of proving one or more of the following defenses:
         (1)  the    issuing    tribunal    lacked   personal
    jurisdiction over the contesting party;
         (2)  the order was obtained by fraud;
         (3)  the  order  has  been  vacated,  suspended,  or
    modified by a later order;
         (4)  the  issuing  tribunal  has  stayed  the  order
    pending appeal;
         (5)  there is a defense under the law of this  State
    to the remedy sought;
         (6)  full or partial payment has been made; or
         (7)  the  statute  of  limitation  under Section 604
    precludes enforcement of  some  or  all  of  the  alleged
    arrearages; or
         (8)  the   alleged  controlling  order  is  not  the
    controlling order.
    (b)  If a party presents evidence establishing a full  or
partial  defense  under  subsection  (a), a tribunal may stay
enforcement of the registered order, continue the  proceeding
to  permit  production  of  additional relevant evidence, and
issue other appropriate orders.  An  uncontested  portion  of
the   registered  order  may  be  enforced  by  all  remedies
available under the law of this State.
    (c)  If the contesting party does not establish a defense
under subsection (a) to the validity or  enforcement  of  the
order,   the   registering  tribunal  shall  issue  an  order
confirming  the order.
(Source: P.A. 88-550, eff. date changed from 1-1-95 to 1-1-96
by P.A. 88-691.)

    (750 ILCS 22/610)
    Sec. 610.  Effect of  registration  for  modification.  A
tribunal  of  this State may enforce a child-support order of
another state registered for purposes of modification, in the
same manner as if the order had been issued by a tribunal  of
this  State, but the registered order may be modified only if
the requirements of Section 611, 613, or 615 have been met.
(Source: P.A. 90-240, eff. 7-28-97.)

    (750 ILCS 22/611)
    Sec. 611.  Modification of Child-Support Order of Another
State.
    (a)  If Section 613 does no apply,  except  as  otherwise
provided  in  Section  615,  upon petition a tribunal of this
State may  modify  After  a  child-support  order  issued  in
another state which is has been registered in this State, the
responding  tribunal of this State may modify that order only
if Section 613 does  not  apply  and  if,  after  notice  and
hearing, the tribunal it finds that:
         (1)  the following requirements are met:
              (A)  (i)  neither the child, nor the individual
         petitioner  who  is  an  individual,  nor  and   the
         respondent  resides  do  not  reside  in the issuing
         state;
              (B) (ii)  a petitioner who is a nonresident  of
         this State seeks modification; and
              (C)  (iii)  the  respondent  is  subject to the
         personal jurisdiction of the tribunal of this State;
         or
         (2)  this State is the State  of  residence  of  the
    child, or a party who is an individual, is subject to the
    personal  jurisdiction  of the tribunal of this State and
    all of the parties who are individuals have filed written
    consents in a  record  in  the  issuing  tribunal  for  a
    tribunal  of  this  State to modify the support order and
    assume continuing, exclusive jurisdiction over the order.
    However, if the issuing state is a  foreign  jurisdiction
    that  has  not  enacted  a  law or established procedures
    substantially similar to the procedures under  this  Act,
    the  consent otherwise required of an individual residing
    in this State is not required for the tribunal to  assume
    jurisdiction to modify the child-support order.
    (b)  Modification  of a registered child-support order is
subject to the same requirements,  procedures,  and  defenses
that   apply  to  the  modification  of  an order issued by a
tribunal of this State and the  order  may  be  enforced  and
satisfied in the same manner.
    (c)  Except  as  otherwise  provided  in  Section  615, a
tribunal of this  State  may  not  modify  any  aspect  of  a
child-support order that may not be modified under the law of
the  issuing  state, including the duration of the obligation
of  support.  If  two   or   more   tribunals   have   issued
child-support orders for the same obligor and same child, the
order  that  controls and must be so recognized under Section
207 establishes the aspects of the support  order  which  are
nonmodifiable.
    (d)  In a proceeding to modify a child-support order, the
law  of  the  state  that  is  determined  to have issued the
initial  controlling  order  governs  the  duration  of   the
obligation of support.  The obligor's fulfillment of the duty
of  support established by that order precludes imposition of
a further obligation of support by a tribunal of this State.
    (e) (d)  On issuance of an order by a  tribunal  of  this
State  modifying  a  child-support  order  issued  in another
state, the a tribunal of  this  State  becomes  the  tribunal
having continuing, exclusive jurisdiction.
(Source: P.A. 90-240, eff. 7-28-97.)

    (750 ILCS 22/612)
    Sec.  612.   Recognition  of  order  modified  in another
state.  If a child-support order issued by a tribunal of this
State is modified  shall  recognize  a  modification  of  its
earlier  child-support  order  by a tribunal of another state
which assumed jurisdiction pursuant to the Uniform Interstate
Family  Support  Act,  a  tribunal  of  this  State   a   law
substantially  similar  to this Act and, upon request, except
as otherwise provided in this Act, shall:
    (1)  may enforce its the order that was modified only  as
to   arrears   and   interest  amounts  accruing  before  the
modification;
    (2)  enforce only nonmodifiable aspects of that order;
    (2) (3)  provide  other  appropriate  relief   only   for
violations  of  its  that  order  which  occurred  before the
effective date of the  modification; and
    (3) (4)  recognize  the  modifying  order  of  the  other
state, upon registration, for the purpose of enforcement.
(Source: P.A. 90-240, eff. 7-28-97.)

    (750 ILCS 22/615 new)
    Sec. 615.  Jurisdiction to modify child-support order  of
foreign country or political subdivision.
    (a)  If  a  foreign country or political subdivision that
otherwise meets the requirements for inclusion under this Act
as set forth in subpart (B)  of  the  definition  of  "State"
contained in Section 102 will not or may not modify its order
pursuant  to  its  laws,  a tribunal of this State may assume
jurisdiction to modify the child-support order and  bind  all
individuals  subject  to  the  personal  jurisdiction  of the

tribunal whether or not the  consent  to  modification  of  a
child-support  order  otherwise  required  of  the individual
pursuant to  Section  611  has  been  given  or  whether  the
individual  seeking  modification is a resident of this State
or of the foreign country or political subdivision.
    (b)  An order issued pursuant  to  this  Section  is  the
controlling order.

    (750 ILCS 22/701)
    Sec.  701.   Proceeding  to  determine  parentage. (a)  A
tribunal of this State authorized to determine parentage of a
child may serve as a an initiating or responding tribunal  in
a proceeding to determine parentage brought under this Act or
a  law  substantially  similar to this Act, to determine that
the obligee is a parent of a particular child or to determine
that an obligor is a parent of that child.
    (b)  In a proceeding to determine parentage, a responding
tribunal of this State shall apply the Illinois Parentage Act
of 1984, and the rules of this State on choice of law.
(Source: P.A. 88-550, eff. date changed from 1-1-95 to 1-1-96
by P.A. 88-691.)

    (750 ILCS 22/801)
    Sec. 801.  Grounds for rendition.
    (a)  For purposes of this Article, "governor" includes an
individual  performing  the  functions  of  governor  or  the
executive authority of a state covered by this Act.
    (b)  The governor of this State may:
         (1)  demand  that  the  governor  of  another  state
    surrender an individual found in the other state  who  is
    charged  criminally  in  this State with having failed to
    provide for the support of an obligee; or
         (2)  on the demand of by  the  governor  of  another
    state, surrender an individual found in this State who is
    charged  criminally in the other state with having failed
    to provide for the support of an obligee.
    (c)  A  provision  for  extradition  of  individuals  not
inconsistent with this Act applies to the demand even if  the
individual  whose  surrender  is  demanded  was  not  in  the
demanding  state  when  the crime was allegedly committed and
has not fled therefrom.
(Source: P.A. 88-550, eff. date changed from 1-1-95 to 1-1-96
by P.A. 88-691.)

    (750 ILCS 22/802)
    Sec. 802.  Conditions of rendition.
    (a)  Before making demand that the  governor  of  another
state  surrender  an  individual  charged  criminally in this
State with having failed to provide for  the  support  of  an
obligee,  the Governor of this State may require a prosecutor
of this State to demonstrate that at least 60 days previously
the obligee had  initiated proceedings for  support  pursuant
to this Act or that the proceeding would be of no avail.
    (b)  If, under this Act or a law substantially similar to
this  Act, the Uniform Reciprocal Enforcement of Support Act,
or the Revised Uniform Reciprocal Enforcement of Support Act,
the Governor  of  another  state  makes  a  demand  that  the
governor  of  this  State  surrender  an  individual  charged
criminally  in  that  state with having failed to provide for
the support of a child or other individual to whom a duty  of
support  is  owed,  the  governor may require a prosecutor to
investigate the demand and report whether  a  proceeding  for
support  has  been  initiated  or  would  be effective. If it
appears that a proceeding would be effective but has not been
initiated, the governor may delay honoring the demand  for  a
reasonable time to permit the initiation of a proceeding.
    (c)  If  a  proceeding for support has been initiated and
the individual whose  rendition  is  demanded  prevails,  the
governor  may  decline  to  honor the demand.  If the obligee
prevails and the individual whose rendition  is  demanded  is
subject to a support order, the governor may decline to honor
the  demand  if  the individual is complying with the support
order.
(Source: P.A. 88-550, eff. date changed from 1-1-95 to 1-1-96
by P.A. 88-691.)

    (750 ILCS 22/901)
    Sec. 901.  Uniformity of  application  and  construction.
In  applying  and  construing  this Uniform Act consideration
must be given to the need to promote uniformity of  This  Act
shall  be  applied  and  construed  to effectuate its general
purpose to make uniform the  law  with  respect  to  its  the
subject  of  this Act matter among states that enact enacting
it.
(Source: P.A. 88-550, eff. date changed from 1-1-95 to 1-1-96
by P.A. 88-691.)

    (750 ILCS 22/902) (was 750 ILCS 22/903)
    Sec. 902. 903. Severability clause. If any  provision  of
this  Act or its application to any person or circumstance is
held invalid, the invalidity does not affect other provisions
or applications of this Act which can be given effect without
the invalid provision or application, and  to  this  end  the
provisions of this Act are severable.
(Source: P.A. 88-550, eff. date changed from 1-1-95 to 1-1-96
by P.A. 88-691.)

    (750 ILCS 22/903) (was 750 ILCS 22/904)
    Sec.   903.  904.  Effective  date.  (See  Sec.  999  for
effective date.)
(Source: P.A. 88-550, eff. date changed from 1-1-95 to 1-1-96
by P.A. 88-691.)
    (750 ILCS 22/904) (was 750 ILCS 22/905)
    Sec. 904. 905. Repeal.  The  Revised  Uniform  Reciprocal
Enforcement  of Support Act is repealed on the effective date
of this amendatory Act of 1997. An action that was  commenced
under  the  Revised Uniform Reciprocal Enforcement of Support
Act and is pending on the effective date of  this  amendatory
Act  of  1997 shall be decided in accordance with that Act as
it existed immediately before its repeal by  this  amendatory
Act of 1997.
(Source: P.A. 90-240, eff. 7-28-97.)

    (750 ILCS 22/902 rep.)
    Section  10. The Uniform Interstate Family Support Act is
amended by repealing Section 902.

    Section  99.  Operative  date.  This  Act  shall   become
operative  upon at least one of the following 2 events taking
place, whichever occurs first, but in no event prior to  July
1, 2004:
         (1)  The amendment by Congress of subdivision (f) of
    42  U.S.C.  Sec. 666 to statutorily require or authorize,
    in connection  with  the  approval  of  state  plans  for
    purposes  of federal funding, the adoption of the Uniform
    Interstate Family  Support  Act  as  promulgated  by  the
    National  Conference  of  Commissioners  on Uniform State
    Laws in 2001.
         (2)  The approval, either generally or with specific
    application to Illinois, by the federal office  of  Child
    Support  Enforcement  or  by  the Secretary of Health and
    Human Services, of a waiver, exemption, finding, or other
    indicia of regulatory approval of the Uniform  Interstate
    Family  Support  Act,  as  promulgated  by  the  National
    Conference  of  Commissioners  on  Uniform  State Laws in
    2001, in connection with the approval of state plans  for
    purposes of federal funding.