ARTICLE 3.  CIVIL PROVISIONS OF GENERAL APPLICATION

 

Note

 

  Article heading reenacted by L 2015, c 77, pt of §1.

 

 

     §576B-301  Proceedings under this chapter.  (a)  Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, this article applies to all proceedings under this chapter.

     (b)  An individual petitioner or a support enforcement agency may initiate a proceeding authorized under this chapter by filing a petition in an initiating tribunal for forwarding to a responding tribunal or by filing a petition or a comparable pleading directly in a tribunal of another state or a foreign country which has or can obtain personal jurisdiction over the respondent. [L 1997, c 295, pt of §1; am L 2015, c 77, pt of §1]