A tribunal of this state exercising personal jurisdiction over a nonresident in a proceeding under this chapter or other laws of this state relating to a support order, or recognizing a foreign support order, may receive evidence from outside this state pursuant to section 25-1256, communicate with a tribunal outside this state pursuant to section 25-1257 and obtain discovery through a tribunal outside this state pursuant to section 25-1258. In all other respects, articles 3, 4, 5 and 6 of this chapter do not apply and the tribunal shall apply the procedural and substantive law of this state.

Terms Used In Arizona Laws 25-1230

  • Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
  • Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
  • Foreign support order: means a support order of a foreign tribunal. See Arizona Laws 25-1202
  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • Law: includes decisional and statutory law and rules and regulations having the force of law. See Arizona Laws 25-1202
  • Outside this state: means a location in another state or a country other than the United States, whether or not the country is a foreign country. See Arizona Laws 25-1202
  • State: means a state of the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands or any territory or insular possession subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. See Arizona Laws 25-1202
  • Support order: means a judgment, decree, order, decision or directive, whether temporary, final or subject to modification, issued in a state or foreign country for the benefit of a child, a spouse or a former spouse, that provides for monetary support, health care, arrearages, retroactive support or reimbursement for financial assistance provided to an individual obligee in place of child support. See Arizona Laws 25-1202
  • Tribunal: means a court, administrative agency or quasi-judicial entity authorized to establish, enforce or modify support orders or to determine parentage of a child. See Arizona Laws 25-1202

 

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