Indiana Code 31-18.5-7-8. Recognition and enforcement of registered support order
(b) The following grounds are the only grounds on which an Indiana tribunal may refuse recognition and enforcement of a registered Convention support order:
Terms Used In Indiana Code 31-18.5-7-8
- Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
- Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
- Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
(2) The issuing tribunal lacked personal jurisdiction consistent with IC 31-18.5-2-1.
(3) The order is not enforceable in the issuing country.
(4) The order was obtained by fraud in connection with a matter of procedure.
(5) A record transmitted in accordance with section 6 of this chapter lacks authenticity or integrity.
(6) A proceeding between the same parties and having the same purpose is pending before an Indiana tribunal and that proceeding was the first to be filed.
(7) The order is incompatible with a more recent support order involving the same parties and having the same purpose if the more recent support order is entitled to recognition and enforcement under this article in Indiana.
(8) Payment, to the extent alleged arrears have been paid in whole or in part.
(9) In a case in which the respondent neither appeared nor was represented in the proceeding in the issuing foreign country:
(A) if the law of that country provides for prior notice of proceedings, the respondent did not have proper notice of the proceedings and an opportunity to be heard; or
(B) if the law of that country does not provide for prior notice of the proceedings, the respondent did not have proper notice of the order and an opportunity to be heard in a challenge or appeal on fact or law before a tribunal.
(10) The order was made in violation of section 11 of this chapter.
(c) If an Indiana tribunal does not recognize a Convention support order under subsection (b)(2), (b)(4), or (b)(9):
(1) the tribunal may not dismiss the proceeding without allowing a reasonable time for a party to request the establishment of a new Convention support order; and
(2) the support enforcement agency shall take all appropriate measures to request a child support order for the obligee if the application for recognition and enforcement was received under section 4 of this chapter.
As added by P.L.206-2015, SEC.53.