Rule Text
In responding to registrations or petitions for enforcement of two or more child support orders in effect at the same time with regard to the same obligor and different individual obligees, at least one of which was issued by a tribunal of another state or a foreign country, a tribunal of this state shall enforce those orders in the same manner as if the orders had been issued by a tribunal of this state.
Amendment history: Acts 1995, No. 251, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 1996; Acts 1997, No. 1241, §1, eff. July 15, 1997; Acts 2015, No. 80, §1, eff. July 1, 2015.
Plain-English Summary (for reference only — not a substitute for the rule text above)
This summary is not the rule. The rule text controls.
When a parent owes child support to more than one person (for example, children from different relationships), and at least one of those support orders came from another state or country, a Louisiana court will still enforce all the orders. It doesn't matter that some orders came from somewhere else. Louisiana treats them the same way it would treat orders made right here in the state.
This means a parent can't avoid paying support just because the orders were issued in different places or by different courts. If someone owes support to two or more people at the same time, Louisiana courts will step in and make sure each order gets enforced fairly, just as if every single order had started in Louisiana. This protects the people who are owed support, no matter where the original court order came from.