Kansas City-area family law specialist Ron Nelson reports:
"On September 29, 2014, President Obama signed HR 4980, “An Act to prevent and address sex trafficking of children in foster care, to extend and improve adoption incentives, and to improve international child support recovery” which implements the 2007 Hague Convention on the International Recovery of Child Support and Other Forms of Family Maintenance in the United States and requires that states enact the most recent version of UIFSA [the Uniform Interstate Family Support Act] on or before September 30, 2018."
The U.S. had been waiting for the passage of implementing legislation before formally joining the treaty, so that we will be ready to comply with it from Day 1.