My ex-husband lives in Pennsylvania. Our divorce was finalized in Florida three years ago. He was ordered to pay alimony bas...
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The Uniform Interstate Family Support Act of 1996 (UIFSA) provides for the following types of proceedings to be brought: 1) establishment of an order for spousal support or child support; 2) enforcement of a support order and income-withholding order without registration; 3) registration of an order for spousal support or child support of another state for enforcement; 4) modification of an order for support issued by a tribunal of the forum state; 5) registration of an order for child support of another state for modification; and 6) determination of parentage. All states have enacted legislation providing for domestic enforcement of support obligations in respect to dependents that live in a foreign state. Nearly every jurisdiction has adopted some form of Uniform Support of Dependents statutes, and at present all states have quite similar laws.
The Revised Uniform Reciprocal Enforcement of Support Act RURESA and UIFSA provide that the duties of support applicable under the act are those imposed under the laws of the state where the person owing the duty of support was present during the period for which support is sought. These Acts provide that all duties of support, including arrearages, are enforceable by action irrespective of the relationship between the person owing the duty and the person to whom the duty of support is owed. I am preparing a generic Petition to Enforce Duty to Pay Spousal Support when Respondent is in Another State for the USLF website and it should be online by May 21.