A party or support enforcement agency seeking to modify, or to modify and enforce, a child-support order issued in another state shall register that order in this state in the same manner provided in §§ 9-17-601 through 9-17-608 if the order has not been registered. A petition for modification may be filed at the same time as a request for registration, or later. The pleading must specify the grounds for modification.
Ark. Code Ann. § 9-17-609
Procedure to register child-support order of another state for modification
Known as the Uniform Interstate Family Support Act
The act spans §§ 9–9 (78 sections).
Acts 1993, No. 468, § 1; 1997, No. 1063, § 17; 2015, No. 888, § 1.
Current official text: Arkansas General Assembly. Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Arkansas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.