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111TH CONGRESS SEAEExEc. REPT.
2d Session SENATE 111-2
HAGUE CONVENTION ON THE INTERNATIONAL RECOV-
ERY OF CHILD SUPPORT AND OTHER FORMS OF FAM-
ILY MAINTENANCE (TREATY DOC. 110-21)
JANUARY 22, 2010.-Ordered to be printed
Mr. KERRY, from the Committee on Foreign Relations,
submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany Treaty Doc. 110-21]
The Committee on Foreign Relations, to which was referred the
Hague Convention on the International Recovery of Child Support
and Other Forms of Family Maintenance, adopted at The Hague on
November 23, 2007 (Treaty Doc. 110-21), having considered the
same, reports favorably thereon with two reservations and three
declarations as indicated in the resolution of advice and consent,
and recommends that the Senate give its advice and consent to
ratification thereof, as set forth in this report and the accom-
panying resolution of advice and consent.
CONTENTS
Page
I. P u rpose ........................................................................................................... 1
II. B ackground .................................................................................................... 2
III. Sum m ary of Convention ................................................................................ 3
IV . E ntry Into Force ........................................................................................... 6
V. Im plem enting Legislation ............................................................................. 6
VI. Com m ittee Action .......................................................................................... 7
VII. Committee Recommendations and Comments ............................................ 7
VIII. Text of Resolution of Advice and Consent to Ratification .......................... 9
VIII. Annex I.-Transcript of October 6, 2009 Hearing ...................................... 11
I. PURPOSE
The object of this Convention, as provided for in Article 1, is to
ensure the effective international recovery of child support and
other forms of family maintenance. The Convention seeks to
achieve this purpose by providing rules that will, for the first time
on a worldwide scale, create uniform, simple, and inexpensive pro-
cedures for the establishment, recognition, and enforcement of child
support and family maintenance obligations in international cases.
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