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Tenn. Code Ann. § 36-5-2613

Jurisdiction to modify child support order of another state when individual parties reside in this state

Acts 2010, ch. 901, § 1.

(1) If all of the parties who are individuals reside in this state and the child does not reside in the issuing state, a tribunal of this state has jurisdiction to enforce and to modify the issuing state’s child support order in a proceeding to register that order.

(2) A tribunal of this state exercising jurisdiction under this section shall apply the provisions of parts 21 and 22 of this chapter and the procedural and substantive law of this state to the proceeding for enforcement or modification. Parts 23, 24, 25, 27 and 28 of this chapter do not apply.

Current official text: Tennessee Code (LexisNexis). Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Tennessee statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.