RCW 26.21A.607

RCW 26.21A.607 Initiation by department of social and health services of support proceeding under convention. (1) In a support proceeding under this article, the department of social and health services of this state shall: (a) Transmit and receive applications; and (b) Initiate or facilitate the institution of a proceeding regarding an application in a tribunal of this state. (2) The following support proceedings are available to an obligee under the convention: (a) Recognition or recognition and enforcement of a foreign support order; (b) Enforcement of a support order issued or recognized in this state; (c) Establishment of a support order if there is no existing order including, if necessary, determination of parentage of a child; (d) Establishment of a support order if recognition of a foreign support order is refused under RCW 26.21A.617(2) (b), (d), or (i); (e) Modification of a support order of a tribunal of this state; and (f) Modification of a support order of a tribunal of another state or a foreign country. (3) The following support proceedings are available under the convention to an obligor against which there is an existing support order: (a) Recognition of an order suspending or limiting enforcement of an existing support order of a tribunal of this state; (b) Modification of a support order of a tribunal of this state; and (c) Modification of a support order of a tribunal of another state or a foreign country. (4) 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. [ 2015 c 214 s 49.]