Colo. Rev. Stat. § 14-5-507

Colorado Revised Statutes 2025 — Title 14: Domestic Matters — Article 5: Uniform Parentage Act § 14-5-507 Administrative enforcement of orders 14‑5‑507. 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 in another state or a foreign support order 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 article. Source: L. 97: Entire part amended with relocations, p. 540, 11, effective July 1. L. 2003: (a) amended, p. 1257, 31, effective July 1, 2004. L. 2015: (a) amended, (HB 15‑1198), ch. 173, p. 554, 30, effective July 1. Editor's note: This section was formerly numbered as 14‑5‑502. PART 6 REGISTRATION, ENFORCEMENT, AND MODIFICATION OF SUPPORT ORDER INTRODUCTORY COMMENT Sections 601 through 604 establish the basic procedure for the registration of a support order from another state or a foreign support order. Under RURESA when a tribunal of a responding state was requested to register and enforce an existing child‑support order, the common practice was to ignore the request; rather, a separate proceeding would be initiated for the establishment of a new support order. This practice was specifically rejected by UIFSA; this practice under RURESA created the multiple support‑order system that UIFSA was specifically designed to eliminate. Under Sections 205 through 207 the one‑order system allows only one existing order to be enforced prospectively. Sections 605 through 608 provide theprocedure for the nonregistering party to contest registration of an order, either because the order is allegedly invalid, superseded, or no longer in effect, or because the enforcement remedy being sought is opposed by the nonregistering party. Other enforcement remedies may be available without resort to the UIFSA process under the law of the responding state. See Section 104. The registration and enforcement provisions in Sections 601 through 608 are consistent with the recognition and enforcement provisions of the Convention. The terms of this article and Article 7 suffice to direct international support orders into the proper channels. SUBPART A REGISTRATION FOR ENFORCEMENT OF SUPPORT ORDER --- Source: Colorado General Assembly, Office of Legislative Legal Services. Colorado Revised Statutes 2025, current through the 75th General Assembly, First Extraordinary Session (August 2025). https://leg.colorado.gov/colorado-revised-statutes