(a) Duties.-- In a support proceeding under this chapter, the department shall do all of the following: (1) Transmit and receive applications. (2) Initiate or facilitate the institution of a proceeding regarding an application in a tribunal of this State. (b) Obligee support proceedings.-- All of the following support proceedings are available to an obligee under the convention: (1) Recognition or recognition and enforcement of a foreign support order. (2) Enforcement of a support order issued or recognized in this State. (3) Establishment of a support order if there is no existing order, including, if necessary, determination of parentage of a child. (4) Establishment of a support order if recognition of a foreign support order is refused under section 77A08(b)(2), (4) or (9) (relating to recognition and enforcement of registered convention support order). (5) Modification of a support order of a tribunal of this State. (6) Modification of a support order of a tribunal of another state or a foreign country. (c) Obligor support proceedings.-- All of the following support proceedings are available under the convention to an obligor against which there is an existing support order: (1) Recognition of an order suspending or limiting enforcement of an existing support order of a tribunal of this State. (2) Modification of a support order of a tribunal of this State. (3) Modification of a support order of a tribunal of another state or a foreign country. (d) Prohibition.-- 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.
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