§ 206 - Enforcement and modification of support order by tribunal having continuing jurisdiction - Vermont Statutes

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

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

(b) A tribunal of this state having continuing, exclusive jurisdiction over a support order may act as a responding tribunal 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 316 (Special Rules of Evidence and Procedure) of this title to receive evidence from another state and section 318 (Assistance with Discovery) of this title to obtain discovery through a tribunal of another state.

(c) A tribunal of this state which lacks continuing, exclusive jurisdiction over a spousal support order may not serve as a responding tribunal to modify a spousal support order of another state. (Added 1997, No. 11, § 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1998.)