KRS 15.814: Office's duty to locate custodial and noncustodial parents -- Enforcement of

child support obligations -- Registry of information relating to parents --

Assistance from governmental agencies -- Limits on availability of information.

(1) Unless the Office of the Attorney General has reason to believe allegations of child

abuse or domestic violence and that the disclosure of the information could be

harmful to the custodial parent or the child of the parent, the office shall attempt to

locate a noncustodial parent of a child described in KRS 15.812, and establish or set

an amount of modification, and enforce the child support obligation.

(2) Upon the request of a putative father and for the purpose of establishing paternity

only, the Office of the Attorney General shall attempt to locate a custodial parent of

a child described in KRS 15.802 if the office finds the action to be in the best

interest of the child.

(3) If paternity is established for a child described in KRS 15.812 as a resul t of the

location of the custodial parent, the Office of the Attorney General shall establish a

child support obligation or a modification for a child support obligation and shall

enforce the child support obligation if the office finds the enforcement of the order

to be in the best interest of the child.

(4) The Office of the Attorney General shall serve as a registry for the receipt of

information which directly relates to the identity or location of absent parents, and,

upon request of a putative father, the location of a custodial parent, in order to

establish paternity, to answer interstate inquiries concerning deserting parents or

custodial parents, to coordinate and supervise any activity on a state level in search

of an absent parent or custodial par ent, to develop guidelines for coordinating

activities of any governmental agency in providing information necessary for

location of absent parents or custodial parents, to obtain information on the location

of parents to enforce state and federal laws against parental kidnapping and to make

or to enforce a child custody or visitation order, and is to process all requests

received from an initiating county or an initiating state which has adopted the

Uniform Reciprocal Enforcement of Support Act or the Unif orm Interstate Family

Support Act.

(5) In order to carry out responsibilities imposed under this chapter, the Office of the

Attorney General may request information and assistance from any governmental

agency. All state, county, and city agencies, officers, and employees shall cooperate

with the Office of the Attorney General in determining the location of parents who

have abandoned or deserted children and shall cooperate with the office in

determining the location of custodial parents for the purpose of e stablishing

paternity with all pertinent information relative to the location, income and assets,

property, and debt of the parents, notwithstanding any provision of state law

making the information confidential.

(6) The information which is obtained by th e Office of the Attorney General shall only

be available to such governmental agency or political subdivision of any state for

purposes of locating an absent parent to enforce the parent's obligation of support

and for the purposes of location of custodial parents to establish paternity of

putative fathers.