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FAMILIES
(750 ILCS 22/) Uniform Interstate Family Support Act.

750 ILCS 22/607

    (750 ILCS 22/607)
    Sec. 607. Contest of registration or enforcement.
    (a) A party contesting the validity or enforcement of a registered support order or seeking to vacate the registration has the burden of proving one or more of the following defenses:
        (1) the issuing tribunal lacked personal jurisdiction
    
over the contesting party;
        (2) the order was obtained by fraud;
        (3) the order has been vacated, suspended, or
    
modified by a later order;
        (4) the issuing tribunal has stayed the order pending
    
appeal;
        (5) there is a defense under the law of this State to
    
the remedy sought;
        (6) full or partial payment has been made;
        (7) the statute of limitation under Section 604
    
precludes enforcement of some or all of the alleged arrearages; or
        (8) the alleged controlling order is not the
    
controlling order.
    (b) If a party presents evidence establishing a full or partial defense under subsection (a), a tribunal may stay enforcement of a registered support order, continue the proceeding to permit production of additional relevant evidence, and issue other appropriate orders. An uncontested portion of the registered support order may be enforced by all remedies available under the law of this State.
    (c) If the contesting party does not establish a defense under subsection (a) to the validity or enforcement of a registered support order, the registering tribunal shall issue an order confirming the order.
(Source: P.A. 99-119, eff. 1-1-16.)

750 ILCS 22/608

    (750 ILCS 22/608)
    Sec. 608. Confirmed order. Confirmation of a registered support order, whether by operation of law or after notice and hearing, precludes further contest of the order with respect to any matter that could have been asserted at the time of registration.
(Source: P.A. 99-119, eff. 1-1-16.)

750 ILCS 22/Art. 6 Pt. 3

 
    (750 ILCS 22/Art. 6 Pt. 3 heading)
PART 3. REGISTRATION AND MODIFICATION OF
CHILD-SUPPORT ORDER
OF ANOTHER STATE
(Source: P.A. 99-119, eff. 1-1-16.)

750 ILCS 22/609

    (750 ILCS 22/609)
    Sec. 609. Procedure to register child-support order of another state for modification. A party or support enforcement agency seeking to modify, or to modify and enforce, a child-support order issued in another state shall register that order in this State in the same manner provided in Sections 601 through 608 if the order has not been registered. A petition for modification may be filed at the same time as a request for registration, or later. The pleading must specify the grounds for modification.
(Source: P.A. 99-119, eff. 1-1-16.)

750 ILCS 22/610

    (750 ILCS 22/610)
    Sec. 610. Effect of registration for modification. A tribunal of this State may enforce a child-support order of another state registered for purposes of modification, in the same manner as if the order had been issued by a tribunal of this State, but the registered support order may be modified only if the requirements of Section 611 or 613 have been met.
(Source: P.A. 99-119, eff. 1-1-16.)

750 ILCS 22/611

    (750 ILCS 22/611)
    Sec. 611. Modification of child-support order of another state.
    (a) If Section 613 does not apply, upon petition a tribunal of this State may modify a child-support order issued in another state which is registered in this State if, after notice and hearing, the tribunal finds that:
        (1) the following requirements are met:
            (A) neither the child, nor the obligee who is an
        
individual, nor the obligor resides in the issuing state;
            (B) a petitioner who is a nonresident of this
        
State seeks modification; and
            (C) the respondent is subject to the personal
        
jurisdiction of the tribunal of this State; or
        (2) this State is the residence of the child, or a
    
party who is an individual is subject to the personal jurisdiction of the tribunal of this State, and all of the parties who are individuals have filed consents in a record in the issuing tribunal for a tribunal of this State to modify the support order and assume continuing, exclusive jurisdiction.
    (b) Modification of a registered child-support order is subject to the same requirements, procedures, and defenses that apply to the modification of an order issued by a tribunal of this State and the order may be enforced and satisfied in the same manner.
    (c) A tribunal of this State may not modify any aspect of a child-support order that may not be modified under the law of the issuing state, including the duration of the obligation of support. If two or more tribunals have issued child-support orders for the same obligor and same child, the order that controls and must be so recognized under Section 207 establishes the aspects of the support order which are nonmodifiable.
    (d) In a proceeding to modify a child-support order, the law of the state that is determined to have issued the initial controlling order governs the duration of the obligation of support. The obligor's fulfillment of the duty of support established by that order precludes imposition of a further obligation of support by a tribunal of this State.
    (e) On the issuance of an order by a tribunal of this State modifying a child-support order issued in another state, the tribunal of this State becomes the tribunal having continuing, exclusive jurisdiction.
    (f) Notwithstanding subsections (a) through (e) and Section 201(b), a tribunal of this State retains jurisdiction to modify an order issued by a tribunal of this State if:
        (1) one party resides in another state; and
        (2) the other party resides outside the United
    
States.
(Source: P.A. 99-119, eff. 1-1-16.)

750 ILCS 22/612

    (750 ILCS 22/612)
    Sec. 612. Recognition of order modified in another state. If a child-support order issued by a tribunal of this State is modified by a tribunal of another state which assumed jurisdiction pursuant to the Uniform Interstate Family Support Act, a tribunal of this State:
        (1) may enforce its order that was modified only as
    
to arrears and interest accruing before the modification;
        (2) may provide appropriate relief for violations of
    
its order which occurred before the effective date of the modification; and
        (3) shall recognize the modifying order of the other
    
state, upon registration, for the purpose of enforcement.
(Source: P.A. 99-119, eff. 1-1-16.)