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S.C. Code Ann. § 63-17-2940

Application to Resident of Foreign Country and Foreign Support Proceeding

Known as the Uniform Interstate Family Support Act

The act spans §§ 63-17-2900 to 63-17-4040 (78 sections).

2015 Act No. 33 (S.500), SECTION 1, eff June 1, 2015.

(A) A tribunal of this State shall apply Parts I through VI and, as applicable, Part VII, 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) A tribunal of this State that is requested to recognize and enforce a support order on the basis of comity may apply the procedural and substantive provisions of Parts I through VI.

(C) Part VII applies only to a support proceeding under the convention. In such a proceeding, if a provision of Part VII is inconsistent with Parts I through VI, Part VII controls.

Official source: South Carolina Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain South Carolina statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.