The Vermont Statutes Online
The Statutes below include the actions of the 2025 session of the General Assembly.
NOTE: The Vermont Statutes Online is an unofficial copy of the Vermont Statutes Annotated that is provided as a convenience.
(Cite as: 15B V.S.A. § 1705)
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§ 1705. Direct request
(a) A petitioner may file a direct request seeking establishment or modification of a
support order or determination of parentage of a child. In the proceeding, the law
of this State applies.
(b) A petitioner may file a direct request seeking recognition and enforcement of a support
order or support agreement. In the proceeding, sections 1706 through 1713 apply.
(c) In a direct request for recognition and enforcement of a Convention support order
or foreign support agreement:
(1) a security, bond, or deposit is not required to guarantee the payment of costs and
expenses; and
(2) an obligee or obligor that in the issuing country has benefited from free legal assistance
is entitled to benefit, at least to the same extent, from any free legal assistance
provided for by the law of this State under the same circumstances.
(d) A petitioner filing a direct request is not entitled to assistance from the governmental
entity.
(e) This chapter does not prevent the application of laws of this State that provide simplified,
more expeditious rules regarding a direct request for recognition and enforcement
of a foreign support order or foreign support agreement. (Added 2015, No. 16, § 2, eff. June 1, 2015.)