Section 93-25-206 – Continuing jurisdiction to enforce child-support order

May 13, 2021 | Family Law, Mississippi

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

Miss. Code ยง 93-25-206

Added by Laws, 2015, ch. 367, SB 2301, 1, eff. 7/1/2015.