A party or support enforcement agency seeking to modify, or to modify and enforce, a foreign child-support order not under the Convention may register that order in this state under §§ 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 at another time. The petition must specify the grounds for modification.
Ark. Code Ann. § 9-17-616
Procedure to register child-support order of foreign country for modification
Known as the Uniform Interstate Family Support Act
The act spans §§ 9–9 (78 sections).
Acts 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.