Section 30-3A-206 Enforcement and modification of support order by tribunal having continuing jurisdiction. - Alabama Statutes

Section 30-3A-206

Enforcement and modification of support order by tribunal having continuing jurisdiction.

(a) A court of this state may serve as an initiating court to request a tribunal of another state to enforce or modify a support order issued in that state.

(b) A court of this state having continuing, exclusive jurisdiction over a support order may act as a responding court to enforce or modify the order. If a party subject to the continuing, exclusive jurisdiction of the tribunal no longer resides in the issuing state, in subsequent proceedings the tribunal may apply Section 30-3A-316 (Special Rules of Evidence and Procedure) to receive evidence from another state and Section 30-3A-318 (Assistance with Discovery) to obtain discovery through a tribunal of another state.

(c) A court of this state which lacks continuing, exclusive jurisdiction over a spousal-support order may not serve as a responding court to modify a spousal support-order of another state.

(Acts 1997, No. 97-245, p. 398, §1.)