40-5-194. Modification of child support order of another state. (1) After a child support order issued in another state has been registered in this state, the appropriate responding tribunal of this state may modify that order only if, after notice and hearing, it finds that:
     (a) 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; or
     (b) an individual party or the child is subject to the personal jurisdiction of the tribunal and all of the individual parties have filed in the issuing tribunal a written consent providing that the appropriate tribunal of this state may modify the support order and that this state may assume continuing, exclusive jurisdiction over the order.
     (2) 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.
     (3) A tribunal of this state may modify only a child support order. A tribunal may not modify provisions, such as custody, visitation, or other provisions not related to support.
     (4) On issuance of an order modifying a child support order issued in another state, a tribunal of this state has continuing, exclusive jurisdiction.
     (5) Within 30 days after issuance of a modified child support order, the tribunal issuing the modification shall file a certified copy of the order:
     (a) with the issuing tribunal that had continuing, exclusive jurisdiction over the earlier order; and
     (b) in each tribunal in which the modifying tribunal knows that earlier order has been registered.

     History: En. Sec. 46, Ch. 328, L. 1993.