The U.S. Department of State, Office of the Legal Advisor, has published the list of countries that have been declared reciprocating for the enforcement of family support (maintenance) obligations for U.S. residents. The countries are: Australia, the Canadian Provinces [of British Columbia, Manitoba,

and Nova Scotia], the Czech Republic, Ireland, Poland, Portugal, and the Slovak Republic. These countries have established procedures through which U.S. residents can enforce support obligations. U.S. agencies participating in the program of Title IV-D of the Social Security Act must provide enforcement to those jurisdictions as if the request came from a U.S. state. The law also allows individual U.S. states to establish or continue reciprocating family or child support arrangements with foreign countries where there has not been any federal declaration. For more information, get in touch with the Office of the U.S. Central Authority for International Child Support Enforcement (OCSE), 370 L'Enfant Promenade SW, 4 Aerospace Building, Washington, D.C. 20447, Phone: (202) 260-5953, or the individual state IV-D Agencies. Citation: 66 Federal Register 58544 (November 21, 2001).