{"data":{"id":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-93-25-710","jurisdiction":"us-ms","citation":"Miss. Code Ann. § 93-25-710","heading":"Foreign support agreement.","body":"(a) Except as otherwise provided in subsections (c) and (d), a tribunal of this state shall recognize and enforce a foreign support agreement registered in this state.\n(b) An application or direct request for recognition and enforcement of a foreign support agreement must be accompanied by:\n(1) A complete text of the foreign support agreement; and\n(2) A record stating that the foreign support agreement is enforceable as an order of support in the issuing country.\n(c) A tribunal of this state may vacate the registration of a foreign support agreement only if, acting on its own motion, the tribunal finds that recognition and enforcement would be manifestly incompatible with public policy.\n(d) In a contest of a foreign support agreement, a tribunal of this state may refuse recognition and enforcement of the agreement if it finds:\n(1) Recognition and enforcement of the agreement is manifestly incompatible with public policy;\n(2) The agreement was obtained by fraud or falsification;\n(3) The agreement is incompatible with a support order involving the same parties and having the same purpose in this state, another state, or a foreign country if the support order is entitled to recognition and enforcement under this chapter in this state; or\n(4) The record submitted under subsection (b) lacks authenticity or integrity.\n(e) A proceeding for recognition and enforcement of a foreign support agreement must be suspended during the pendency of a challenge to or appeal of the agreement before a tribunal of another state or a foreign country.","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":"5d8fff7e33df473d96c20e42651a97535ac496a28bbc874694091f5c4ef612ff","source_id":"us-ms","stale":false,"prev":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-93-25-709","next":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-93-25-711","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."}