Case Update (2020): Gyger v. Clement; Foreign child support order, affidavits in U.S. court by a person outside of USA, requirement of notarization
The Supreme Court of North Carolina addressed yet another case this year that dealt with the registration of a foreign family court order. In the case of Gyger v. Clement , they dealt with a Swiss child support order. The parents were never married, but had 2 children born in Geneva, Switzerland. The mother established parentage and obtained a Swiss child support order. She then brought it to North Carolina to register it and enforce it on the children's father. More specifically, the Swiss Central Authority attempted to register its child support order through the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (presumably NC's Title IV-D agency). Defendant father was served about a week after the order's filing in June 2016. He then sought to vacate that child support order, claiming a lack of notice. The Mother presented an affidavit, signed under penalty of perjury, about the case, and submitted it as evidence in the North Carol...