Relating to the Implementation of the Convention on the International Recovery of Child Support and Other Forms of Family Maintenance
Designates Health and Human Services as Child Support Authority
What it does
The Department of Health and Human Services is directed to act as the U.S. Central Authority for the Hague child-support convention and authorize state child-support agencies to handle applications.
Real-world impact
- Makes the Department of Health and Human Services the U.S. Central Authority.
- Allows state child-support agencies to act on international Convention applications.
- Authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services to adopt rules and perform required duties.
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Summary
This order designates the Department of Health and Human Services as the United States' Central Authority under the Hague Convention on the International Recovery of Child Support, which enters into force for the U.S. on January 1, 2017.
It lets the Secretary of Health and Human Services carry out the Central Authority's duties and allows the Department to designate state child-support agencies as public bodies to handle Convention applications.
This creates the official U.S. point of contact to process international child-support requests.
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