2020 Code of Alabama
Title 30 - Marital and Domestic Relations.
Chapter 3D - Uniform Interstate Family Support Act.
Article 2 - Jurisdiction.
Section 30-3D-211 - Continuing, Exclusive Jurisdiction to Modify Spousal-Support Order.
Section 30-3D-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.
(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.
(Act 2015-284, §1.)