1997 Florida Code
TITLE VI CIVIL PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE
Chapter 88 Uniform Interstate Family Support Act  
PART I GENERAL PROVISIONS (ss. 88.0011-88.193)
88.141   Duty of initiating court.

188.141  Duty of initiating court.--If the initiating court finds that the motion sets forth facts from which it may be determined that the respondent owes a duty of support and that a court of the responding state may obtain jurisdiction of the respondent or the respondent's property, it shall so certify and cause three copies of the motion and its certificate and one copy of this act to be sent to the responding court or the state information agency. Certification shall be in accordance with the requirements of the initiating state. If the name and address of the responding court are unknown and the responding state has an information agency comparable to that established in the initiating state, it shall cause the copies to be sent to the state information agency or other proper official of the responding state, with a request that the agency or official forward them to the proper court and that the court of the responding state acknowledge their receipt to the initiating court.

History.--s. 14, ch. 29901, 1955; s. 15, ch. 79-383; s. 463, ch. 95-147; s. 10, ch. 96-189.

1Note.--Repealed July 1, 1997, by s. 10, ch. 96-189.