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PUBLIC LAW 8 5. 9 4 - J U L Y 10, 1957

SEC. 2. There are hereby authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act, and the Architect of the Capitol, under the direction of the Senate Office Building Commission, is authorized to enter into contracts and to make such other expenditures, including expenditures for personal and other services, as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this Act. Any appropriations made available under authority of this Act may be expended without regard to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes of the United States, as amended, and section 1316 of the Supplemental Appropriation Act, 1054 (67 Stat. 439). Approved July 10, 1957.

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Public Law 85-94 AN ACT To improve and extend, through reciprocal legislation, the enforcement of duties of support in the District of Columbia.

July 10. 1957 [H. R. 7249]

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the follow- ^^'^o^l ing provisions to improve and extend by reciprocal legislation the enforcement of duties of support and to make uniform the law in respect thereto, shall be in effect in the District of Columbia on and after the effective date of this Act. DEFINITIONS

SEC. 2. As used in this Act, unless the context requires otherwise— (a) "State" includes any State, Territory, or possession of the United States and the Commonwealth of Puerto Kico and the District of Columbia in which this or a substantially similar reciprocal law has been enacted. (b) "Initiating State" means any State in which a proceeding pursuant to this or a substantially similar reciprocal law is commenced. (c) "Responding State" means any State in which a proceeding pursuant to the proceeding in the initiating State is or may be commenced. (d) "Court" means the Domestic Relations Branch of the Municipal Court for the District of Columbia and, when the context requires, means the court of any other State as defined in a substantially similar reciprocal law. (e) "Duty of support" includes: (1) any duty of support imposed by statute or by common law, or by any court order, decree, or judgment, whether interlocutory or final, whether incidental to a proceeding for divorce, judicial separation, separate maintenance, or otherwise; (2) any duty of reimbursement imposed by law jfor moneys expended by a State or a political subdivision or an agency thereof for support, including institutional care; and (3) the duty imposed by section 20 of this Act. (f) "Dependent" means any person who is in need of and entitled to support from a person legally liable for such support. (g) "Plaintiff" means any person or any State or political subdivision or agency thereof, commencing a proceeding pursuant to this or a similar reciprocal law, whether on his or its own behalf, or on behalf of a dependent as herein defined. (h) "Defendant" means any person owing a duty of support, against whom a proceeding is commenced pursuant to this or a similar reciprocal Act. 84352 O - 5 8 - 2 1

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