16.1 Introduction

Chapter

This chapter contains the following section:

• Inter-Jurisdictional Issues

• Transferred Cases

As the Wyoming CSE Program, the Northern Arapaho Child Support Program (NACSP), and the Eastern Shoshone Child Support Program (ESCSP) release additional Joint Policy Interpretation and Direction (JPID) documents, those documents will be added to the Wyoming CSE Manual as new sections.

Overview

The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (PRWORA) as amended by the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 authorized the direct funding of tribal child support programs by the federal government. On March 30, 2004, the federal OCSE published the final Tribal IV-D regulations.

The Northern Arapaho Tribe became a comprehensive child support program on October 1, 2008. The Eastern Shoshone Tribe became a comprehensive child support program on July 1, 2010. Both tribal programs receive direct federal funding. The NACSP and ESCSP will provide the following services:

• Location of alleged fathers and non-custodial parents;

• Paternity establishment;

• Child Support establishment;

• Enforcement of child support orders; and

• Modification of child support orders .

Federal Timeframes

Tribal IV-D programs are not required to meet the same federal timeframes or performance measures as the state IV-D agencies; however, they are still considered a IV-D agency and are required to establish and enforce child support orders. Additionally, tribal IV-D programs, including the NACSP and ESCSP, have not adopted the Uniform Intergovernmental Family Support Act (UIFSA); however, the NACSP and ESCSP shall still give full faith and credit to Wyoming child support orders as required by the Full Faith and Credit Child Support Order Act of 1994 (FFCSOA). For more information on these two laws please see Chapter 11 Intergovernmental.

Cross Reference

Appendix 11.C – Intergovernmental Forms