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Arkansas · Snapshot Arkansas Code Release 78 (2020-11), retrieved 2026-09-17

Ark. Code Ann. § 9-17-206: Continuing jurisdiction to enforce child-support order.

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Where this section sits in the code
  1. Title 9 Family Law
  2. Subtitle 2. Domestic Relations
  3. Chapter 17 Uniform Interstate Family Support Act
  4. Article 2 Jurisdiction
  5. Part 2 — Proceedings Involving Two or More States

(a) 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.

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

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