Printable Format23-36,613. Jurisdiction to modify child support order of another state when individual parties reside in this state. (a) If all of the parties who are individuals reside in this state and the child does not reside in the issuing state, a tribunal of this state 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 this state exercising jurisdiction under this section shall apply the provisions of parts 1 and 2 of this act, this part and the procedural and substantive law of this state to the proceeding for enforcement or modification. Parts 3, 4, 5, 7 and 8 of this act do not apply.
History: L. 1997, ch. 182, § 57; L. 2015, ch. 64, § 54; July 1.
Source or Prior Law:
23-9,613.
CASE ANNOTATIONS
1. Duration of child support determined by law of issuing state; Kansas court can not modify Missouri support order; father obligated to pay child support until child finishes college or reaches age 22. In re Marriage of Doetzl, 31 Kan. App. 2d 331, 65 P.3d 539 (2003).
2. Failure to properly register an out-of-state support order does not deprive district court of jurisdiction to rule on such order. Chalmers v. Burrough, 314 Kan. 1, 11, 494 P.3d 128 (2021).