§2966.__Continuing jurisdiction to enforce child support order

1.__Initiating tribunal to enforce or modify.__A tribunal of this State that has issued a child support order consistent with the laws of this State may serve as an initiating tribunal to request a tribunal of another state to enforce:

A.__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

B.__A money judgment for arrears of support and interest on the order accrued before a determination that an order of another state is the controlling order.

2.__Responding tribunal to enforce or modify.__A tribunal of this State having continuing jurisdiction over a support order may act as a responding tribunal to enforce or modify the order.

Uniform Comment

(This is Section 206 of the Uniform Act.)

This section is the correlative of the continuing, exclusive jurisdiction asserted in the preceding section. It makes the relatively subtle distinction between the CEJ "to modify a support order" established in Section 205 and the "continuing jurisdiction to enforce" established in this section. A keystone of UIFSA is that the power to enforce the order of the issuing State is not "exclusive" with that State. Rather, on request one or more responding States may also exercise authority to enforce the order of the issuing State. Secondly, under the one-order-at-a-time system, the validity and enforceability of the controlling order continues unabated until it is fully complied with, unless it is replaced by a modified order issued in accordance with the standards established by Sections 609-615. That is, even if the individual parties and the child no longer reside in the issuing State, the controlling order remains in effect and may be enforced by the issuing State or any responding State without regard to the fact that the potential for its modification and replacement exists. The 2001 amendments to Subsection (a) authorize the issuing tribunal to initiate a