Continuing jurisdiction to enforce a child support order

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§ 1206. Continuing jurisdiction to enforce a child support order

(a) A tribunal of this State or the Office of Child Support 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 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 this State having continuing jurisdiction over a support order may act as a responding tribunal to enforce the order. (Added 2015, No. 16, § 2, eff. June 1, 2015.)


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