{"data":{"id":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-93-25-204","jurisdiction":"us-ms","citation":"Miss. Code Ann. § 93-25-204","heading":"Simultaneous proceedings.","body":"(a) A tribunal of this state may exercise jurisdiction to establish a support order if the complaint or comparable pleading is filed after a complaint or comparable pleading is filed in another state or a foreign country only if:\n(1) The complaint or comparable pleading in this state is filed before the expiration of the time allowed in the other state or the foreign country for filing a responsive pleading challenging the exercise of jurisdiction by the other state or the foreign country;\n(2) The contesting party timely challenges the exercise of jurisdiction in the other state or the foreign country; and\n(3) If relevant, this state is the home state of the child.\n(b) A tribunal of this state may not exercise jurisdiction to establish a support order if the complaint or comparable pleading is filed before a complaint or comparable pleading is filed in another state or a foreign country if:\n(1) The complaint or comparable pleading in the other state or foreign country is filed before the expiration of the time allowed in this state for filing a responsive pleading challenging the exercise of jurisdiction by this state;\n(2) The contesting party timely challenges the exercise of jurisdiction in this state; and\n(3) If relevant, the other state or foreign country is the home state of the child.","path":["Title 93. Domestic Relations","Chapter 25. Uniform Interstate Family Support Act","Article 2. Jurisdiction."],"source_url":"https://archive.org/download/gov.ms.code.ann.2018/release78.2020.07.08/gov.ms.code.title.93.odt","current_through":"2020-07-08","vintage":"Mississippi Code Release 78 (2020-07), retrieved 2026-09-17","retrieved_at":"2026-10-27T05:54:58Z","sha256":"a73de54b9170ced46bf91433f299c7d0f81470ba48761b96c4cc8d656f20d051","source_id":"us-ms","stale":false,"prev":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-93-25-203","next":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-93-25-205","notices":[{"id":"open-us-law","title":"Open US Law compilation","text":"Compilation CC BY 4.0, Open US Law (Vaquill AI). GroundRules uses only the releases published under CC BY 4.0: from v2026.09 the compilation is licensed CC BY-NC 4.0, and GroundRules does not use those releases. Each affected row names its release in its vintage label. GroundRules parsed and filtered the compilation to retain enacted text.","url":"https://huggingface.co/datasets/vaquill/open-us-law","license_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"},{"id":"pro-ms","title":"Mississippi Release 78 supplement","text":"Mississippi electronic product files were republished by Public.Resource.Org under a public-domain dedication. GroundRules uses enacted text from Release 78 only as a labeled supplement to the newer Open US Law rows.","url":"https://archive.org/details/gov.ms.code.ann.2018"}]},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}