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Miss. Code Ann. § 93-27-202

Exclusive, continuing jurisdiction

Applied in 7 court decisions — leading case In re the Adoption of H.C.H. (2013)

Most recently applied in 249 So. 3d 463 - Elle A. Adams v. John Leon Rice (June 2018)

Laws, 2004, ch. 519, § 14, eff from and after July 1, 2004.

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(1) Except as otherwise provided in Section 93-27-204, a court of this state which has made a child custody determination consistent with Sections 93-27-201 or 93-27-203 has exclusive, continuing jurisdiction over the determination until: A court of this state determines that neither the child, nor the child and one parent, nor the child and a person acting as a parent have a significant connection with this state and that substantial evidence is no longer available in this state concerning the child’s care, protection, training, and personal relationships; or

(2) A court of this state or a court of another state determines that the child, the child’s parents, and any person acting as a parent currently do not reside in this state.

(3) A court of this state which has made a child custody determination and does not have exclusive, continuing jurisdiction under this section may modify that determination only if it has jurisdiction to make an initial determination under Section 93-27-201.

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.