modification to child support on foriegn decree

What are the options to modify or establish new child support or other
provisions, in the US courts, to an existing divorce decree from a foreign
country ? I am marrying a woman who has no child support requirements in
her existing foreign divorce decree. The absentee father is an illegal
alien in this country.

"Stan Foss" wrote in message
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What are the options to modify or establish new child support or other
provisions, in the US courts, to an existing divorce decree from a
foreign
country ? I am marrying a woman who has no child support requirements in
her existing foreign divorce decree. The absentee father is an illegal
alien in this country.


If he's an illegal in this country, there's nothing to garnish and there is
no legal source of income to bother about!

Your not getting any money from him, so why bother?

"G" wrote in message
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"Stan Foss" wrote in message
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What are the options to modify or establish new child support or other
provisions, in the US courts, to an existing divorce decree from a
foreign
country ? I am marrying a woman who has no child support requirements
in
her existing foreign divorce decree. The absentee father is an illegal
alien in this country.


If he's an illegal in this country, there's nothing to garnish and there
is
no legal source of income to bother about!

Your not getting any money from him, so why bother?



I'm not quite sure about that. Seems like you can make money in this
country, even file taxes without being a legal resident. I think I just
read another post about someone wanting to report the "under the table"
income of the delinquent father. At this point though my question is simply
about modification or replacement of a foreign divorce decree.

However a difficult and lengthy procedure.
First, you must have the existing order from the foreign tribunal
registered in the appropriate family court where the children are
currently residing for either enforcement and modification or just for the
modification. You will need to either have personal service on the
non-custodial parent, or if it is an option in your jurisdiction, you will
have to have published service in an acceptable periodical in the
jurisdiction where the ncp was last located. Upon successful service, you
would then need to convince the judge that the court has appropriate
jurisdiction to modify an existing order issued by a judge from a
different tribunal. You can also try to make it the IV-D child support
office's job to do the same by having your wife fill out an application
for IV-D services.

Good luck. It's not easy to get the order, let alone have it enforced.

Did you want to start sending him money or are you looking to offset your
obligations?
"Stan Foss" wrote in message
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What are the options to modify or establish new child support or other
provisions, in the US courts, to an existing divorce decree from a
foreign
country ? I am marrying a woman who has no child support requirements in
her existing foreign divorce decree. The absentee father is an illegal
alien in this country.