Massachusetts General Laws ch. 209D sec. 6-613 – Jurisdiction to modify child support order of another state when individual parties reside in the commonwealth
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Section 6–613. Jurisdiction to modify child support order of another state when individual parties reside in the commonwealth.
Terms Used In Massachusetts General Laws ch. 209D sec. 6-613
- 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.
(a) If all of the parties who are individuals reside in the commonwealth and the child does not reside in the issuing state, a tribunal of the commonwealth 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 the commonwealth exercising jurisdiction under this section shall apply Articles 1 and 2, this Article and the procedural and substantive law of the commonwealth to the proceeding for enforcement or modification.
Articles 3, 4, 5, 7, and 8 do not apply.