Section 63-17-3210 - Applicability of law(A) Except as otherwise provided in this article, this part applies to all proceedings under this article.(B) An individual petitioner or a support enforcement agency may initiate a proceeding authorized under this article by filing a petition in an initiating tribunal for forwarding to a responding tribunal or by filing a petition or a comparable pleading directly in a tribunal of another state or a foreign country which has or can obtain personal jurisdiction over the respondent.Amended by 2015 S.C. Acts, Act No. 33 (SB 500), s 1, eff. 6/1/2015.2008 Act No. 361, Section 2.