Continuing jurisdiction to enforce child-support order

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(a) A tribunal of the District that has issued a child-support order consistent with the law of the District, may serve as an initiating tribunal to request a tribunal of another state to enforce:

(1) The order if the order is the controlling order and has not been modified by a tribunal of another state that assumed jurisdiction pursuant to the Uniform Interstate Family Support Act; or

(2) A money judgment for arrears of support and interest on the order accrued before a determination that an order of a tribunal of another state is the controlling order.

(b) A tribunal of the District having continuing jurisdiction over a support order may act as a responding tribunal to enforce the order.

(Feb. 27, 2016, D.C. Law 21-73, § 206, 63 DCR 222.)


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