Kansas Statutes 23-36,613. Jurisdiction to modify child support order of another state when individual parties reside in this state
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Terms Used In Kansas Statutes 23-36,613
- 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: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
(a) 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.
(b) A tribunal of this state exercising jurisdiction under this section shall apply the provisions of parts 1 and 2 of this act, this part and the procedural and substantive law of this state to the proceeding for enforcement or modification. Parts 3, 4, 5, 7 and 8 of this act do not apply.