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Texas Family Code - Section 159.206. Continuing Jurisdiction To Enforce Child Support Order

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§ 159.206.  CONTINUING JURISDICTION TO ENFORCE CHILD 
SUPPORT ORDER.  (a) A tribunal of this state that has issued a child 
support order consistent with the law of this state may serve as an 
initiating tribunal to request a tribunal of another state to 
enforce:
		(1)  the order, if the order:                                                 
			(A)  is the controlling order;  and                                          
			(B)  has not been modified by a tribunal of 
another state that assumed jurisdiction under the Uniform 
Interstate Family Support Act;  or
		(2)  a money judgment for support arrearages and 
interest on the order accrued before a determination that an order 
of another state is the controlling order.
	(b)  A tribunal of this state having continuing jurisdiction 
over a support order may act as a responding tribunal to enforce the 
order.

Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 20, § 1, eff. April 20, 1995.  
Amended by Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 1247, § 9, eff. Sept. 1, 
2003.

Last modified: August 11, 2007