This chart lists all the alternative types of action that are possible for intergovernmental cases that need modification. To use it, find the alternative or alternatives that apply to the particular case you are dealing with. You will then see the corresponding documents required by law or regulation for that alternative, and where to send them.
Standard intergovernmental forms are listed in bold type; other documents are listed in plain type.
Modification
| To do this: | You need these forms and/or documents: | And (if it is a IV-D case) you send them to: |
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| File for modification of your state’s order in your state. |
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The local tribunal in your state. |
| Ask another state to modify an Oklahoma order. |
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The ICR in that other state. |
| File for modification of another state’s order in that state. |
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The ICR in that other state. |
| Register an order for modification. |
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The ICR in the state of the party that is not requesting the modification. |
| Establish a new order in your state using long-arm jurisdiction when there are existing multiple orders, but no order is controlling and no state has CEJ. |
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The local tribunal in your state. |
| Establish a new order in another state using the two-state process when there are existing multiple orders, but no order is controlling, and no state has CEJ. |
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The ICR in that other state. |
*Note: If the case has multiple orders for current support now in effect, you must also provide (or make sure that the state where the action will be carried out has) one certified copy of each order for current support that is now in effect.
The material in this document is taken from Interstate Actions Made Easy: A Quick‐Reference Guide to Enforcing Child Support Across State Lines (publication #4627A), a document prepared by the Training Staff of the New York State Division of Child Support Enforcement contracted through the Professional Development Program at Rockefeller College (NYS DCSE/PDP). This document is slightly modified from New York’s original training document by Child Support Services (CSS) for child support training within Oklahoma.