Arkansas Code Annotated

Ark. Code Ann. § 9-17-206 (2020)

Continuing jurisdiction to enforce child-support order

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  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:
    1. 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
    2. 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.

History. Acts 1993, No. 468, § 1; 2015, No. 888, § 1.

Amendments. The 2015 amendment rewrote the section heading; rewrote (a) and (b); and deleted former (c).

Part 3 — Reconciliation with Orders of Other States

Publisher's Notes. Part C of this Article was redesignated as Part 3 by Acts 1997, No. 1063, § 20.