SB 486 Summary

• Comprehensively amends Oklahoma's Uniform Interstate Family Support Act (Title 43, Chapter 6, Part 1) to modernize definitions, procedures, and enforcement mechanisms for interstate and international child and spousal support cases.

• Expands the Act's application to include foreign countries and tribunals, allowing Oklahoma courts to recognize, enforce, and modify foreign support orders and foreign support agreements under specified conditions.

• Establishes detailed procedures for registration and enforcement of support orders from other states and foreign countries, including contested registration hearings with specific defenses and time limits for challenges.

• Clarifies jurisdictional requirements for Oklahoma tribunals to establish, modify, and enforce support orders, including provisions for cases involving obligors or obligees residing in foreign countries.

• Adds a new Article 7 governing support proceedings under the Convention on International Recovery of Child Support and Other Forms of Family Maintenance, with specific requirements for recognition of convention support orders and foreign support agreements.