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2024 Florida Statutes (Including 2025C)
SECTION 1041
Application of act to resident of foreign country and foreign support proceeding.
Application of act to resident of foreign country and foreign support proceeding.
88.1041 Application of act to resident of foreign country and foreign support proceeding.—
(1) A tribunal of this state shall apply parts I through VI of this chapter, and, as applicable, part VII of this chapter, to a support proceeding involving:
(a) A foreign support order;
(b) A foreign tribunal; or
(c) An obligee, obligor, or child residing in a foreign country.
(2) A tribunal of this state that is requested to recognize and enforce a support order on the basis of comity may apply the procedural and substantive provisions of parts I through VI of this chapter.
(3) Part VII of this chapter applies only to a support proceeding under the convention. In such a proceeding, if a provision of part VII of this chapter is inconsistent with parts I through VI of this chapter, part VII of this chapter controls.
History.—s. 4, ch. 2011-92.