\n(a) In a support proceeding under this Article, the Department shall do the following:\n(1) Transmit and receive applications.\n(2) Initiate or facilitate the institution of a proceeding regarding an application in a tribunal of this State.\n(b) The following support proceedings are available to an obligee under the Convention:\n(1) Recognition or recognition and enforcement of a foreign support order.\n(2) Enforcement of a support order issued or recognized in this State.\n(3) Establishment of a support order if there is no existing order, including, if necessary, determination of parentage of a child.\n(4) Establishment of a support order if recognition of a foreign support order is refused under G.S. 52C-7-708(b)(2), (4), or (9).\n(5) Modification of a support order of a tribunal of this State.\n(6) Modification of a support order of a tribunal of another state or foreign country.\n(c) The following support proceedings are available under the Convention to an obligor against which there is an existing support order:\n(1) Recognition of an order suspending or limiting enforcement of an existing g support proceedings are available under the Convention to an obligor against which there is an existing support order:\n(1) Recognition of an order suspending or limiting enforcement of an existing support order of a tribunal of this State.\n(2) Modification of a support order of a tribunal of this State.\n(3) Modification of a support order of a tribunal of another state or a foreign country.\n(d) A tribunal of this State may not require security, bond, or deposit, however described, to guarantee the payment of costs and expenses in proceedings under the Convention. (2015-117, s. 1.)
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