§ 20-4-172 — Administrative 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 act.
(c) The department of family services shall adopt rules
and regulations consistent with federal requirements to
implement this section.