FCA § 580-206

Continuing jurisdiction to enforce child support order

§ 580-206. Continuing jurisdiction to enforce child support order. (a) A tribunal of this state that has issued a child support order consistent with the law of this state may serve as an initiating tribunal to request a tribunal of another state to enforce:

(1) the order if the order is the controlling order and has not been modified by a tribunal of another state that assumed jurisdiction pursuant to the Uniform Interstate Family Support Act; or

(2) a money judgment for arrears of support and interest on the order accrued before a determination that an order of a tribunal of another state is the controlling order.

(b) A tribunal of this state having continuing jurisdiction over a support order may act as a responding tribunal to enforce the order.

Official sourcehttps://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/laws/FCT/580-206

In plain English

(a) A NY tribunal that issued a controlling order may serve as an initiating tribunal to ask another state to enforce the order, or to enforce a money judgment for arrears accrued before another order became controlling.
(b) A NY tribunal with continuing jurisdiction may act as a responding tribunal to enforce.

Marked in the text: penalties, time limits, sums of money. Editorial emphasis added by this edition; it does not appear in the statute as enacted.

In print

This provision appears in Volume 5 — The JG-22 Family Court Act and in Volume 1 — The JG-22 in Plain English.