Okla. Stat. tit. 43, § 43-601-705: Direct request for establishment or modification -

Direct request for recognition and enforcement

A. A petitioner may file a direct request seeking establishment

or modification of a support order or determination of parentage of

a child. In the proceeding, the law of this state applies.

B. A petitioner may file a direct request seeking recognition

and enforcement of a support order or support agreement. In the

proceeding, Sections 601-706 through 601-713 of this title apply.

C. In a direct request for recognition and enforcement of a

Convention support order or foreign support agreement:

1. A security, bond or deposit is not required to guarantee the

payment of costs and expenses; and

2. An obligee or obligor that in the issuing country has

benefited from free legal assistance is entitled to benefit, at

least to the same extent, from any free legal assistance provided

for by the law of this state under the same circumstances.

D. A petitioner filing a direct request is not entitled to

assistance from the Oklahoma Department of Human Services.

E. This article does not prevent the application of laws of

this state that provide simplified, more expeditious rules regarding

a direct request for recognition and enforcement of a foreign

support order or foreign support agreement.