Arkansas Code Annotated
Ark. Code Ann. § 9-17-603 (2026)
Effect of registration for enforcement
✓ current as of May 2026
- A support order or income-withholding order issued in another state or a foreign support order is registered when the order is filed in the registering tribunal of this state.
- A registered support order issued in another state or a foreign country is enforceable in the same manner and is subject to the same procedures as an order issued by a tribunal of this state.
- Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, a tribunal of this state shall recognize and enforce, but may not modify, a registered support order if the issuing tribunal had jurisdiction.
History. Acts 1993, No. 468, § 1; 2015, No. 888, § 1.
Amendments. The 2015 amendment inserted “or a foreign support order” in (a); in (b), inserted “support” and “or a foreign country”; and in (c), deleted “article 6 of” preceding “this chapter” and inserted “support”.
Case Notes
Modification of Order.
Chancellor erred in modifying a Florida child support order where none of the requirements of § 9-17-611 or subsection (c) of this section were met. Office of Child Support Enforcement v. Cook, 60 Ark. App. 193, 959 S.W.2d 763 (1998).
Cited: Office of Child Support Enforcement v. Wood, 373 Ark. 595, 285 S.W.3d 599 (2008).
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 4
cases, 1998–2017 · leading case: Off. of Child Support Enf't v. Neely, 41 S.W.3d 423 (Ark. Ct. App. 2001).
Off. of Child Support Enf't v. Neely, 41 S.W.3d 423 (Ark. Ct. App. 2001). “Arkansas Code Annotated section 9-17-603(c) (Repl. 1998) provides: “Except as otherwise provided in article 6, a tribunal of this state shall recognize and enforce, but may not modify, a registered order if the issuing tribunal had jurisdiction.”
Medeiros v. Medeiros, 2017 Ark. App. 122 (Ark. Ct. App. 2017). “” Ark. Code Ann. § 9-17-602 (b). The support order issued in another state is considered “registered” when the order is filed.”
Off. of Child Support Enf't v. Cook, 959 S.W.2d 763 (Ark. Ct. App. 1998). “” The following limitations are placed upon modification of child-support orders issued in other states: (a) After a child support order issued in another state has been registered in this state, the responding tribunal of this state may modify that order only if, after notice…”
Off. of Child Support Enf't v. Wood, 285 S.W.3d 599 (Ark. 2008). “Arkansas Code Annotated section 9-17-603(c) provides that a tribunal of this state may only modify a registered order pursuant to the provisions of article 6 if the issuing tribunal had jurisdiction.”
— Ark. Code Ann. § 9-17-603(c) — 3 cases
Off. of Child Support Enf't v. Neely, 41 S.W.3d 423 (Ark. Ct. App. 2001). “Arkansas Code Annotated section 9-17-603(c) (Repl. 1998) provides: “Except as otherwise provided in article 6, a tribunal of this state shall recognize and enforce, but may not modify, a registered order if the issuing tribunal had jurisdiction.”
Off. of Child Support Enf't v. Cook, 959 S.W.2d 763 (Ark. Ct. App. 1998). “” The following limitations are placed upon modification of child-support orders issued in other states: (a) After a child support order issued in another state has been registered in this state, the responding tribunal of this state may modify that order only if, after notice…”
Off. of Child Support Enf't v. Wood, 285 S.W.3d 599 (Ark. 2008). “Arkansas Code Annotated section 9-17-603(c) provides that a tribunal of this state may only modify a registered order pursuant to the provisions of article 6 if the issuing tribunal had jurisdiction.”
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