CALIFORNIA FAMILY LAW
...Enforcement
......Support Orders
.........Interstate Enforcement (Federal)
6 Cards On This Topic:
  • Full Faith and Credit for Child Support Act.
  • Federal law preempts one state from modifying other state's child support order unless child and parents have all moved from state or consent in writing to new state's jurisdiction.
  • Choice of law provisions in Full Faith and Credit for Child Support Act.
  • Trial ct. obliged to follow new federal choice of law statute and apply longer statute of limitations.
  • Where neither party lived in the decree state, the law of the state in which custodial parent choose to enforce obligation controlled.
  • Though Title IV-D may give rise to individual rights, it does not give individuals federal right to force state agency to substantially comply with it.