Pennsylvania § 7310 Duties of department

Pennsylvania Statutes

§ 7310 — Duties of department

Pennsylvania § 7310

Title 23DOMESTIC RELATIONS

PartPART VIII

Ch. 73CIVIL PROVISIONS OF GENERAL APPLICATION

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23 Pa. Cons. Stat. § 7310 (2026).

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(a)Designation.--The department is the State information agency under this part.

(b)Duties.--The department shall do all of the following:

(1)Compile and maintain a current list, including addresses, of the tribunals in this State which have jurisdiction under this part and any support enforcement agencies in this State and transmit a copy to the state information agency of every other state.

(2)Maintain a register of tribunals and support enforcement agencies received from other states.

(3)Forward to the appropriate tribunal in the place in this State in which the individual obligee or the obligor resides, or in which the obligor's property is believed to be located, documents concerning a proceeding under this part received from another state or a foreign country.

(4)Obtain in

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(a) Designation.--The department is the State information agency under this part.

(b) Duties.--The department shall do all of the following:

(1) Compile and maintain a current list, including addresses, of the tribunals in this State which have jurisdiction under this part and any support enforcement agencies in this State and transmit a copy to the state information agency of every other state.

(2) Maintain a register of tribunals and support enforcement agencies received from other states.

(3) Forward to the appropriate tribunal in the place in this State in which the individual obligee or the obligor resides, or in which the obligor's property is believed to be located, documents concerning a proceeding under this part received from another state or a foreign country.

(4) Obtain information concerning the location of the obligor and the obligor's property within this State not exempt from execution by such means as postal verification; Federal or State locator services; examination of telephone directories; requests for the obligor's address from employers; and examination of governmental records, including, to the extent not prohibited by other law, those relating to real property, vital statistics, law enforcement, taxation, motor vehicles, driver's licenses and Social Security.

(5) (Deleted by amendment).

(6) (Deleted by amendment).

Legislative History

(Dec. 16, 1997, P.L.549, No.58, eff. Jan. 1, 1998; Dec. 28, 2015, P.L.559, No.94, eff. imd.) 1997 Amendment.Act 58 of 1997 was suspended by Pennsylvania Rule of Civil Procedure No. 1910.50(3), as amended May 31, 2000, insofar as it is inconsistent with Rule No. 1910.20 relating to the availability of remedies for collection of past due and overdue support.