§ 8-502. Past-due child support; judgment by operation of law.
A. Any payment or installment of support under any child support order is, on and after the date it is due:
1. A judgment by operation of law, with the full force and effect of any other judgment of the Osage Nation, including the ability to be enforced; and
2. Entitled to as a judgment to full faith and credit in the Osage Nation and in any other tribe or state; and
3. Not subject to retroactive modification by the Osage Nation or any tribe or state, except that the court may permit a modification with respect to any period during which there is pending a petition for modification, but only from the date that notice of such petition has been given, either directly or through an appropriate agent, to the obligee or (where the obligee is the petitioner) to the obligor.
B. A payment schedule for a judgment shall not exceed three years, unless the payment schedule be unjust, inequitable, unreasonable or inappropriate under the circumstances or not in the best interest of the child. The Office of Administrative Hearings or Trial Court may consider the reasonable support obligation of either parent for other children in the custody of the parent.
C. A judgment for past-due child support shall be enforceable until paid in full.
D. A judgment for child support shall not become dormant for any purpose; the recording, servicing and extending a judgment shall follow applicable tribal and state law.
E. A judgment for child support may be enforced by indirect civil contempt proceedings and other enforcement actions allowed by tribal and federal Title IV-D law. ONCA 12-51, eff. June 18, 2012.