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Miss. Code Ann. § 93-27-203

Jurisdiction to modify determination

Applied in 5 court decisions — leading case 35 So. 3d 1221 - Yeager v. Kittrell (2009)

Most recently applied in Kevin McKeown v. Elizabeth Allison Estes (March 2017)

Laws, 2004, ch. 519, § 15, eff from and after July 1, 2004.

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Except as otherwise provided in Section 93-27-204, a court of this state may not modify a child custody determination made by a court of another state unless a court of this state has jurisdiction to make an initial determination under Section 93-27-201(1)(a) or (b); and:

The court of the other state determines it no longer has exclusive, continuing jurisdiction under Section 93-27-202 or that a court of this state would be a more convenient forum under Section 93-27-207; or

A court of this state or a court of the other state determines that neither the child, the child’s parents, nor any person acting as a parent presently does not reside in the other state.

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.