Legal Question in Family Law in California

Reply: out-of-state child support

If you are modifying an old order, you have to modify it in the court that issued it. If there is no order for support, then you would want to file in the jurisdiction where the child resides.

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Re: out-of-state child support

The action may be brought in the child's home state only if the father has significant contacts (a legal term) with that state. Significant contacts could mean having lived in that state or the child conceived in the state. If there are no significant contacts of the father in the child's home state then the action must be brought in the state of the father. The action for child support could always be brought in the state of the father, if that is the desire of the mother. Good Luck, Pat McCrary

Re: out-of-state child support

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NOW, IN RESPONSE TO YOUR INQUIRY --

The court in the state that made the first order regarding the child has exclusive and continuing jurisdication as long as the child and/or either of the parents reside in that state. Otherwise the order would be made or modified in the child's "home state" (which is a term of art).

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