Delaware Code Title 13 Sec. 6-206 – 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 is the controlling order and has not been modified by a tribunal of another state that assumed jurisdiction pursuant to the Uniform Interstate Family Support Act; or
(2) A money judgment for arrears of support and interest on the order accrued before a determination that an order of a tribunal of another state is the controlling order.
Terms Used In Delaware Code Title 13 Sec. 6-206
- 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.
- State: means the State of Delaware; and when applied to different parts of the United States, it includes the District of Columbia and the several territories and possessions of the United States. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302
(b) A tribunal of this State having continuing jurisdiction over a support order may act as a responding tribunal to enforce the order.
69 Del. Laws, c. 238, § ?1; 71 Del. Laws, c. 216, § ?122; 75 Del. Laws, c. 64, § ?1; 80 Del. Laws, c. 60, § ?2;