state: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Alabama Code 1-1-1
(1) transmit and receive applications; and(2) initiate or facilitate the institution of a proceeding regarding an application in a tribunal of this state.(b) The following support proceedings are available to an obligee under the Convention:
(1) recognition or recognition and enforcement of a foreign support order;(2) enforcement of a support order issued or recognized in this state;(3) establishment of a support order if there is no existing order, including, if necessary, determination of parentage of a child;(4) establishment of a support order if recognition of a foreign support order is refused under Section 30-3D-708(b)(2), (4), or (9);(5) modification of a support order of a tribunal of this state; and(6) modification of a support order of a tribunal of another state or a foreign country.(c) The following support proceedings are available under the Convention to an obligor against which there is an existing support order:
(1) recognition of an order suspending or limiting enforcement of an existing support order of a tribunal of this state;(2) modification of a support order of a tribunal of this state; and(3) modification of a support order of a tribunal of another state or a foreign country.(d) A tribunal of this state may not require security, bond, or deposit, however described, to guarantee the payment of costs and expenses in proceedings under the Convention.
