Montana Code Annotated 2011

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     40-5-150. Enforcement and modification of support order by tribunal having continuing jurisdiction. (1) A tribunal of this state may serve as an initiating tribunal to request a tribunal of another state to enforce or modify a support order issued in that state.
     (2) A tribunal of this state that has continuing, exclusive jurisdiction over a support order may act as a responding tribunal to enforce or modify the order of another state. If a party subject to the continuing, exclusive jurisdiction of the tribunal no longer resides in the issuing state, in subsequent proceedings the tribunal may apply 40-5-175 to receive evidence from another state and 40-5-177 to obtain discovery through a tribunal of another state.
     (3) A tribunal of this state that lacks continuing, exclusive jurisdiction over a spousal support order may not serve as a responding tribunal to modify a spousal support order of another state.

     History: En. Sec. 10, Ch. 328, L. 1993.

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