South Carolina § 63-17-3570 - Enforcement of orders.
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§ 63-17-3570. Enforcement of orders.
(A) A party or support enforcement agency seeking to enforce a support order or an income-withholding order, or both, issued in another state or a foreign support order may send the documents required for registering the order to a support enforcement agency of this State.
(B) Upon receipt of the documents, the support enforcement agency, without initially seeking to register the order, shall consider and, if appropriate, use any administrative procedure authorized by the law of this State to enforce a support order or an income-withholding order, or both. If the obligor does not contest administrative enforcement, the order need not be registered. If the obligor contests the validity or administrative enforcement of the order, the support enforcement agency shall register the order pursuant to this article.
HISTORY: 2008 Act No. 361, SECTION 2; 2015 Act No. 33 (S.500), SECTION 1, eff June 1, 2015.
Effect of Amendment
2015 Act No. 33, SECTION 1, in (A), substituted "in another state or a foreign support order" for "by a tribunal of another state".
Part VI
Registration, Enforcement, and Modification of Support Order
Subpart 1
Registration for Enforcement of Support Order
DERIVATION TABLE
Showing the sections in former Chapter 7, Title 20 from which the sections in this subpart were derived.
| NewSection | FormerSection |
|---|---|
| 63-17-3610 | 20-7-1132 |
| 63-17-3620 | 20-7-1134 |
| 63-17-3630 | 20-7-1136 |
| 63-17-3640 | 20-7-1138 |
Source: official South Carolina text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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