HB 06973 Summary

• Adopts the Uniform Interstate Family Support Act of 2008, establishing comprehensive procedures for establishing, enforcing, and modifying child support and spousal support orders across state lines and with foreign countries, effective July 1, 2015.

• Creates jurisdiction standards for Connecticut tribunals to establish support orders based on personal service, consent, residency with child, prenatal support, or other constitutional bases, while limiting modification of out-of-state orders to specific circumstances.

• Establishes procedures for registering and enforcing foreign support orders in Connecticut, including income withholding mechanisms, with obligors able to contest orders within 20-30 days of notice depending on residency.

• Designates the Family Support Magistrate Division and Bureau of Child Support Enforcement as Connecticut's support enforcement agencies to handle interstate and international cases, with authority to locate obligors, establish paternity, and enforce collections.

• Repeals prior Connecticut interstate family support statutes (sections 46b-212 to 46b-213w) and updates related statutes to reference the new uniform act framework for consistency with federal Title IV-D child support enforcement requirements.