Section 2-206 - Continuing Jurisdiction to Enforce Child Support Order

MA Gen L ch 2 § 2-206 (2019) (N/A)
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Section 2–206. Continuing jurisdiction to enforce child support order.

(a) A tribunal of the commonwealth that has issued a child support order consistent with the law of the commonwealth 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.

(b) A tribunal of the commonwealth having continuing jurisdiction over a support order may act as a responding tribunal to enforce the order.