2010 Pennsylvania Code
Title 23 - DOMESTIC RELATIONS
Chapter 76 - Enforcement and Modification of Support Order After Registration
7611 - Modification of child support order of another state.

     § 7611.  Modification of child support order of another state.
        (a)  Authority.--After a child support order issued in
     another state has been registered in this State, the responding
     tribunal of this State may modify that order only if section
     7613 (relating to jurisdiction to modify child support order of
     another state when individual parties reside in this State) does
     not apply and after notice and hearing it finds that:
            (1)  The following requirements are met:
                (i)  the child, the individual obligee and the
            obligor do not reside in the issuing state;
                (ii)  a petitioner who is a nonresident of this State
            seeks modification; and
                (iii)  the respondent is subject to the personal
            jurisdiction of the tribunal of this State.
            (2)  The child, or a party who is an individual, is
        subject to the personal jurisdiction of the tribunal of this
        State and all of the parties who are individuals have filed
        written consents in the issuing tribunal for a tribunal of
        this State to modify the support order and assume continuing,
        exclusive jurisdiction over the order. If the issuing state
        is a foreign jurisdiction which has not enacted a law or
        established procedures substantially similar to procedures
        under this part, the consent otherwise required of an
        individual residing in this State is not required for the
        tribunal to assume jurisdiction to modify the child support
        order.
        (b)  General rule.--Modification of a registered child
     support order is subject to the same requirements, procedures
     and defenses that apply to the modification of an order issued
     by a tribunal of this State, and the order may be enforced and
     satisfied in the same manner.
        (c)  Restriction.--A tribunal of this State may not modify
     any aspect of a child support order that may not be modified
     under the law of the issuing state. If two or more tribunals
     have issued child support orders for the same obligor and child,
     the order that controls and must be so recognized under section
     7207 (relating to recognition of controlling child support
     order) establishes the aspects of the support order which are
     not modifiable.
        (d)  Continuing, exclusive jurisdiction.--On issuance of an
     order modifying a child support order issued in another state, a
     tribunal of this State becomes the tribunal of continuing,
     exclusive jurisdiction.
        (e)  Filing.--(Deleted by amendment).
     (Dec. 16, 1997, P.L.549, No.58, eff. Jan. 1, 1998)

        1997 Amendment.  Act 58 amended subsecs. (a) and (c) and
     deleted subsec. (e).
        Cross References.  Section 7611 is referred to in section
     7610 of this title.