Section 40-5-1013 – Continuing jurisdiction to enforce child support order

May 13, 2021 | Family Law, Montana

(1) 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:

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

ยง 40-5-1013, MCA

Renumbered from 40-5-150 by Laws 2015, Ch. 174,Sec. 71, eff. 7/1/2015.
Amended by Laws 2015, Ch. 174,Sec. 27, eff. 7/1/2015.
En. Sec. 10, Ch. 328, L. 1993.