{"data":{"id":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-93-25-704","jurisdiction":"us-ms","citation":"Miss. Code Ann. § 93-25-704","heading":"Initiation by the Department of Human Services of support proceeding under Convention.","body":"(a) In a support proceeding under this article, the Department of Human Services of this state shall:\n(1) Transmit and receive applications; and\n(2) Initiate or facilitate the institution of a proceeding regarding an application in a tribunal of this state.\n(b) The following support proceedings are available to an obligee under the Convention:\n(1) Recognition or recognition and enforcement of a foreign support order;\n(2) Enforcement of a support order issued or recognized in this state;\n(3) Establishment of a support order if there is no existing order, including, if necessary, determination of parentage of a child;\n(4) Establishment of a support order if recognition of a foreign support order is refused under Section 93-25-708(b) (2), (4), or (9);\n(5) Modification of a support order of a tribunal of this state; and\n(6) Modification of a support order of a tribunal of another state or a foreign country.\n(c) The following support proceedings are available under the Convention to an obligor against which there is an existing support order:\n(1) Recognition of an order suspending or limiting enforcement of an existing support order of a tribunal of this state;\n(2) Modification of a support order of a tribunal of this state; and\n(3) Modification of a support order of a tribunal of another state or a foreign country.\n(d) A tribunal of this state may not require security, bond, or deposit, however described, to guarantee the payment of costs and expenses in proceedings under the Convention.","path":["Title 93. Domestic Relations","Chapter 25. Uniform Interstate Family Support Act","Article 7. Support Proceeding Under Convention."],"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":"d4634bc45a05db539005f0f69574ada36ea7130edff52702223270f07aa083f7","source_id":"us-ms","stale":false,"prev":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-93-25-703","next":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-93-25-705","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."}