Continuing jurisdiction to enforce child-support order

1. Law
2. Mississippi Code
3. Domestic Relations
4. Uniform Interstate Family Support Act
5. Jurisdiction
6. Continuing jurisdiction to enforce child-support order

A tribunal of this state that has issued a child-support order consistent with the law of this state 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 which assumed jurisdiction pursuant to the Uniform Interstate Family Support Act; or
2. A money judgment for support arrearages and interest on the order accrued before a determination that an order of a tribunal of another state is the controlling order.

A tribunal of this state having continuing jurisdiction over a support order may act as a responding tribunal to enforce the order.

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