93-25-27 - Proceedings under chapter. - Mississippi Statutes

§ 93-25-27. Proceedings under chapter.
 

(1)  Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, Sections 93-25-27 through 93-25-63 apply to all proceedings under this chapter. 

(2)  An individual or a support enforcement agency may initiate a proceeding authorized under this chapter by filing a petition in an initiating tribunal for forwarding to a responding tribunal or by filing a petition or a comparable pleading directly in a tribunal of another state which has or can obtain personal jurisdiction over the respondent. 
 

Sources: Laws,  1997, ch. 588, § 84; Laws, 2004, ch. 406, § 11, eff from and after July 1, 2004.