93-25-19 - Enforcement and modification of support order by tribunal having continuing jurisdiction. - Mississippi Statutes

§ 93-25-19. Enforcement and modification of support order by tribunal having continuing jurisdiction.
 

(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 which assumed jurisdiction pursuant to this act; or 

(b) A money judgment for support arrears and interest on the order accumulated prior to a determination that an order 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. 
 

Sources: Laws,  1997, ch. 588, § 80; Laws, 2004, ch. 406, § 6, eff from and after July 1, 2004.