Significant difficulties arise in enforcing child support and spousal support obligations when the person owing the duty of support has departed from the state in which the dependent resides. Such difficulties have led all American jurisdictions to enact legislation providing for domestic enforcement of support obligations with respect to dependents residing in a foreign state where the foreign state has enacted similar reciprocal legislation. The Revised Uniform Reciprocal Enforcement of Support Act (RURESA) was superseded by the Uniform Interstate Family Support Act of 1992 (UIFSA of 1992), which in turn was largely superseded by the Uniform Interstate Family Support Act of 1996 (UIFSA of 1996). The UIFSA of 1996 has now been adopted in almost all states.
This form offers a starting point in trying to locate an absconded spouse by compiling a great deal of important information about the spouse in one document.
