Delaware Code Title 13 Sec. 6-211 – Continuing, exclusive jurisdiction to modify spousal-support order
(a) A tribunal of this State issuing a spousal-support order consistent with the law of this State has continuing, exclusive jurisdiction to modify the spousal-support order throughout the existence of the support obligation.
Terms Used In Delaware Code Title 13 Sec. 6-211
- 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.
- Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
- 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 may not modify a spousal-support order issued by a tribunal of another state or a foreign country having continuing, exclusive jurisdiction over that order under the law of that state or foreign country.
(c) A tribunal of this State that has continuing, exclusive jurisdiction over a spousal-support order may serve as:
(1) An initiating tribunal to request a tribunal of another state to enforce the spousal-support order issued in this State; or
(2) A responding tribunal to enforce or modify its own spousal-support order.
69 Del. Laws, c. 238, § ?1; 71 Del. Laws, c. 216, §§ ?117-121; 75 Del. Laws, c. 64, § ?1; 80 Del. Laws, c. 60, § ?2;