Indiana Code § 31-18.5-5-7

Administrative enforcement of orders
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Sec. 7. (a) A party or support enforcement agent 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 Indiana.       (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 Indiana law 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.   IC 31-18.5-6 Chapter 6. Registration, Enforcement, and Modification of Support Order               31-18.5-6-1 Registration of order for enforcement             31-18.5-6-2 Procedure to register order for enforcement             31-18.5-6-3 Effect of registration for enforcement             31-18.5-6-4 Choice of law             31-18.5-6-5 Notice of registration of order             31-18.5-6-6 Procedure to contest the validity or enforcement of registered support order             31-18.5-6-7 Contest of registration or enforcement             31-18.5-6-8 Confirmed order             31-18.5-6-9 Procedure to register child support order of another state for modification             31-18.5-6-10 Effect of registration for modification             31-18.5-6-11 Modification of child support order of another state             31-18.5-6-12 Recognition of order modified in another state             31-18.5-6-13 Jurisdiction to modify child support order of another state             31-18.5-6-14 Notice to issuing tribunal of modification             31-18.5-6-15 Jurisdiction to modify child support order of foreign country             31-18.5-6-16 Procedure to register child support order of foreign country for modification

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