2. File as foreign judgment. Upon receipt of a request for registration, the registering tribunal shall file the order as a foreign judgment, together with one copy of the documents and information, regardless of their form.

3. Additional petition filed at same time. A petition or comparable pleading seeking a remedy that must be affirmatively sought under other law of this State may be filed at the same time as the request for registration, or later. The pleading must specify the grounds for the remedy sought.

4.__Two or more orders in effect.__If 2 or more orders are in effect, the person requesting registration shall:

A.__Furnish to the tribunal a copy of every support order asserted to be in effect in addition to the documents specified in this section;

B.__Specify the order alleged to be the controlling order, if any; and

C.__Specify the amount of consolidated arrears, if any.

5.__Request for determination of controlling order.__A request for a determination of which order is the controlling order may be filed separately or with a request for registration and enforcement or for registration and modification.__The person requesting registration shall give notice of the request to each party whose rights may be affected by the determination.

Uniform Comment

(This is Section 602 of the Uniform Act.)

Subsection (a) outlines the mechanics for registration of an interstate order. Substantial compliance with the requirements is expected, Twaddell v. Anderson, 523 S.E.2d 710 (N.C. App. 1999); In re Chapman, 973 S.W.2d 346 (Tex. App. 1998).

Subsection (b) confirms that the order being registered is not converted into an order of the responding State, but rather continues to be an order of the issuing State.

Subsection (c) warns that if a particular enforcement remedy must be specifically sought under local law, the same rule of pleading is applicable as in an interstate case. For example, if license