Continuing, exclusive jurisdiction to modify spousal-support order

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

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A tribunal of this state issuing a spousal-support order consistent with the law of this state has continuing, exclusive jurisdiction to modify the spousal-support order throughout the existence of the support obligation.

A tribunal of this state may not modify a spousal-support order issued by a tribunal of another state or a foreign country having continuing, exclusive jurisdiction over that order under the law of that state or foreign country.

A tribunal of this state that has continuing, exclusive jurisdiction over a spousal-support order may serve as:

  1. An initiating tribunal to request a tribunal of another state to enforce the spousal-support order issued in this state; or
  2. A responding tribunal to enforce or modify its own spousal-support order.


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