19-11-183. Duties of Department of Human Services; available support proceedings.

(a) In a support proceeding under this part, the Department of Human Services shall: (1) Transmit and receive applications; and (2) Initiate or facilitate the institution of a proceeding regarding an application in a tribunal of Georgia. (b) The following support proceedings are available to an obligee under the convention: (1) Recognition or recognition and enforcement of a foreign support order; (2) Enforcement of a support order issued or recognized in Georgia; (3) Establishment of a support order if there is no existing order, including, if necessary, determination of parentage of a child; (4) Establishment of a support order if recognition of a foreign support order is refused under paragraph (2), (4), or (9) of subsection (b) of Code Section 19-11-184.3; (5) Modification of a support order of a tribunal of Georgia; and (6) Modification of a support order of a tribunal of another state or a foreign country. (c) The following support proceedings are available under the convention to an obligor against which there is an existing support order: (1) Recognition of an order suspending or limiting enforcement of an existing support order of a tribunal of Georgia; (2) Modification of a support order of a tribunal of Georgia; and (3) Modification of a support order of a tribunal of another state or a foreign country. (d) A tribunal of Georgia may not require security, bond, or deposit, however described, to guarantee the payment of costs and expenses in proceedings under the convention.