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 93-25-601 through 93-25-608 if the order has not been registered. A complaint for modification may be filed at the same time as a request for registration or later. The pleading must specify the grounds for modification.
Miss. Code Ann. § 93-25-609
Procedure to register child-support order of another state for modification
Known as the Uniform Interstate Family Support Act
The act spans §§ 93-25-1–93-25-903 (80 sections).
Applied in 1 court decision — leading case Mississippi Department of Human Services v. Ben Porter (2017)
Most recently applied in Mississippi Department of Human Services v. Ben Porter (June 2017)
Laws, 2015, ch. 367, § 1, eff from and after July 1, 2015.
Current official text: Mississippi Code (LexisNexis). Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Mississippi statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.