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 sections 518C.601 to 518C.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.
Minn. Stat. § 518C.609
PROCEDURE TO REGISTER CHILD SUPPORT ORDER OF ANOTHER STATE FOR MODIFICATION.
Known as the Uniform Interstate Family Support Act
The act spans §§ 518C.101 to 518C.905 (77 sections).
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case Stone v. Stone (2001)
Most recently applied in In Re the Welfare of S.R.S. (September 2008)
1994 c 630 art 6 s 9; 2014 c 189 s 48,73; 2015 c 71 art 1 s 119
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: Minnesota Office of the Revisor of Statutes. Reproduced from public-domain Minnesota statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.