HF1198 Summary

• Updates Minnesota's Uniform Interstate Family Support Act to align with the 2007 Hague Convention on International Recovery of Child Support and Other Forms of Family Maintenance, establishing procedures for interstate and international child support enforcement.

• Expands definitions and scope to include foreign countries, foreign tribunals, and foreign support orders, allowing Minnesota courts to recognize and enforce child support orders from countries that have reciprocal arrangements or adopted similar procedures.

• Establishes new procedures for registering, recognizing, and enforcing foreign support orders through central authorities, with streamlined requirements and limited grounds for contesting registered convention support orders.

• Modifies jurisdiction and modification rules for child support orders involving multiple states or foreign countries, including provisions for determining which order controls when multiple orders exist and standards for when courts can modify orders.

• Becomes effective upon U.S. ratification of the 2007 Hague Convention and applies to all proceedings begun after the effective date involving support orders or parentage determinations.