23-36,301. Proceedings under act. (a) Except as otherwise provided in this act, K.S.A. 2017 Supp. 23-36,301 through 23-36,319, and amendments thereto, apply to all proceedings under this act.

(b) An individual petitioner or a support enforcement agency may initiate a proceeding authorized under this act by filing a petition in an initiating tribunal for forwarding to a responding tribunal or by filing a petition or a comparable pleading directly in a tribunal of another state or a foreign country which has or can obtain personal jurisdiction over the respondent.

History: L. 1994, ch. 301, § 44; L. 1997, ch. 182, § 37; L. 2015, ch. 64, § 17; July 1.