Section 19-11-183. Duties of Department of Human Services; available support proceedings

   (a) In a support proceeding under this part, the Department of Human Services shall:

   (1) Transmit and receive applications; and

   (2) Initiate or facilitate the institution of a proceeding regarding an application in a tribunal of Georgia.

(b) The following support proceedings are available to an obligee under the convention:

   (1) Recognition or recognition and enforcement of a foreign support order;

   (2) Enforcement of a support order issued or recognized in Georgia;

   (3) Establishment of a support order if there is no existing order, including, if necessary, determination of parentage of a child;

   (4) Establishment of a support order if recognition of a foreign support order is refused under paragraph (2), (4), or (9) of subsection (b) of Code Section 19-11-184.3;

   (5) Modification of a support order of a tribunal of Georgia; and

   (6) Modification of a support order of a tribunal of another state or a foreign country.

(c) The following support proceedings are available under the convention to an obligor against which there is an existing support order:

   (1) Recognition of an order suspending or limiting enforcement of an existing support order of a tribunal of Georgia;

   (2) Modification of a support order of a tribunal of Georgia; and

   (3) Modification of a support order of a tribunal of another state or a foreign country.

(d) A tribunal of Georgia may not require security, bond, or deposit, however described, to guarantee the payment of costs and expenses in proceedings under the convention.

Code 1981, § 19-11-183, enacted by Ga. L. 2013, p. 705, § 1/SB 193.