Current through 2015 Legislative Session
(a) Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, this article applies to all proceedings under this chapter.
(b) An individual or a support enforcement agency may initiate a proceeding authorized under this chapter 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 respondent.
Amended by Stats 2002 ch 349 (AB 2934),s 4. The act that amended/enacted this section shall become operative upon at least one of the following two events taking place, whichever occurs first, but in no event prior to July 1, 2004:
(a) 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.
(b) The approval, either generally or with specific application to California, 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.