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2025 Kentucky Revised Statutes
Chapter 407 - Interstate support enforcement
407.5705 Direct request.

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KY Rev Stat § 407.5705 (2025)
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407.5705 Direct request. (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) A petitioner may file a direct request seeking establishment or modification of a support order or determination of parentage of a child. In the proceeding, the law of this state applies. A petitioner may file a direct request seeking recognition and enforcement of a support order or support agreement. In the proceeding, KRS 407.5706, 407.5707, 407.5708, 407.5709, 407.5710, 407.5711, 407.5712, and 407.5713 apply. In a direct request for recognition and enforcement of a Convention support order or foreign support agreement: (a) A security, bond, or deposit is not required to guarantee the payment of costs and expenses; and (b) An obligee or obligor that in the issuing country has benefited from free legal assistance is entitled to benefit, at least to the same extent, from any free legal assistance provided for by the law of this state under the same circumstances. A petitioner filing a direct request is not entitled to assistance from the Office of the Attorney General. This Article does not prevent the application of laws of this state that provide simplified, more expeditious rules regarding a direct request for recognition and enforcement of a foreign support order or foreign support agreement. Effective: July 1, 2025 History: Amended 2023 Ky. Acts ch. 124, sec. 66, effective July 1, 2025. -- Created 2015 Ky. Acts ch. 18, sec. 59, effective June 24, 2015.
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