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Miss. Code Ann. § 93-25-211: Continuing, exclusive jurisdiction to modify spousal-support order.
Where this section sits in the code
- Title 93. Domestic Relations
- Chapter 25. Uniform Interstate Family Support Act
- Article 2. Jurisdiction.
(a) A tribunal of this state issuing a spousal-support order consistent with the law of this state has continuing, exclusive jurisdiction to modify the spousal-support order throughout the existence of the support obligation.
(b) A tribunal of this state may not modify a spousal-support order issued by a tribunal of another state or a foreign country having continuing, exclusive jurisdiction over that order under the law of that state or foreign country.
(c) A tribunal of this state that has continuing, exclusive jurisdiction over a spousal-support order may serve as:
(1) An initiating tribunal to request a tribunal of another state to enforce the spousal-support order issued in this state; or
(2) A responding tribunal to enforce or modify its own spousal-support order.
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