2011 Kansas Code
Chapter 23. - DOMESTIC RELATIONS
Article 9. - UNIFORM INTERSTATE FAMILY SUPPORT ACT
23-9,206 Enforcement and modification of support order by tribunal having continuing jurisdiction.
23-9,206. Enforcement and modification of support order by tribunal having continuing jurisdiction. (a) A tribunal of this state may serve as an initiating tribunal to request a tribunal of another state to enforce or modify a support order issued in that state.
(b) A tribunal of this state having continuing, exclusive jurisdiction over a support order may act as a responding tribunal to enforce or modify the order. If a party subject to the continuing, exclusive jurisdiction of the tribunal no longer resides in the issuing state, in subsequent proceedings the tribunal may apply K.S.A. 23-9,316 and amendments thereto (special rules of evidence and procedure) to receive evidence from another state and K.S.A. 23-9,318 and amendments thereto (assistance with discovery) to obtain discovery through a tribunal of another state.
(c) A tribunal of this state which lacks continuing, exclusive jurisdiction over a spousal support order may not serve as a responding tribunal to modify a spousal support order of another state.
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