14-5-603. Effect of registration for enforcement.

(a) A support order or income-withholding order issued in another state is registered when the order is filed in the registering tribunal of this state.

(b) A registered order issued in another state is enforceable in the same manner and is subject to the same procedures as an order issued by a tribunal of this state.

(c) Except as otherwise provided in this part 6, a tribunal of this state shall recognize and enforce, but may not modify, a registered order if the issuing tribunal had jurisdiction.

Source: L. 93: Entire article R&RE, p. 1597, § 1, effective January 1, 1995.

Editor's note: This section was contained in an article that was repealed and reenacted in 1993. Provisions of this section, as it existed in 1993, are similar to those contained in 14-5-141 as said section existed in 1992, the year prior to the repeal and reenactment of this article.

Annotator's note: Since § 14-5-603 is similar to § 14-5-141 as it existed prior to the 1993 repeal and reenactment of this article, relevant cases construing that provision have been included in the annotations to this section.

Procedures and defenses available. When a complaining party registers a foreign support order in the responding state, the procedures and defenses available thereafter are those applicable to an action to enforce a foreign money judgment. In re McMahan, 660 P.2d 515 (Colo. App. 1983).

Applied in Malmgren v. Malmgren, 628 P.2d 164 (Colo. App. 1981).