(a) In a proceeding to establish or enforce a support order or to determine parentage of a child, a tribunal of the Virgin Islands may exercise personal jurisdiction over a nonresident individual or the individual’s guardian or conservator if: (1) the individual is personally served with a summons within the Virgin Islands; (2) the individual […]
Personal jurisdiction acquired by a tribunal of the Virgin Islands in a proceeding under this subchapter or other law of the Virgin Islands relating to a support order continues as long as a tribunal of the Virgin Islands has continuing, exclusive jurisdiction to modify its order or continuing jurisdiction to enforce its order as provided […]
Under this subchapter a tribunal of the Virgin Islands may serve as an initiating tribunal to forward proceedings to a tribunal of another state, and as a responding tribunal for proceedings initiated in another state or a foreign country.
(a) A tribunal of the Virgin Islands may exercise jurisdiction to establish a support order if the petition is filed after a pleading is filed in another state or a foreign country only if: (1) the petition in Virgin Islands is filed before the expiration of the time allowed in the other state or the […]
(a) A tribunal of the Virgin Islands that has issued a child-support order consistent with the law of the Virgin Islands has and shall exercise continuing, exclusive jurisdiction to modify its child-support order if the order is the controlling order, and: (1) at the time of the filing of a request for modification, the Virgin […]
(a) A tribunal of the Virgin Islands that has issued a child-support order consistent with the law of the Virgin Islands 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 […]
(a) If a proceeding is brought under this subchapter and only one tribunal has issued a child-support order, the order of that tribunal controls and must be recognized. (b) If a proceeding is brought under this subchapter and two or more child-support orders have been issued by tribunals of the Virgin Islands, another state, or […]
In responding to registrations or petitions for enforcement of two or more child-support orders in effect at the same time with regard to the same obligor and different individual obligees, at least one of which was issued by a tribunal of another state or a foreign country, a tribunal of the Virgin Islands shall enforce […]
A tribunal of the Virgin Islands shall credit amounts collected for a particular period pursuant to any child-support order against the amounts owed for the same period under any other child-support order for support of the same child issued by a tribunal of the Virgin Islands, another state, or a foreign country.
A tribunal of the Virgin Islands exercising personal jurisdiction over a nonresident in a proceeding under this subchapter under other law of the Virgin Islands relating to a support order, or recognizing a foreign support order may receive evidence from outside the Virgin Islands pursuant to section 416, communicate with a tribunal outside the Virgin […]
(a) A tribunal of the Virgin Islands issuing a spousal-support order consistent with the law of the Virgin Islands has continuing, exclusive jurisdiction to modify the spousal-support order throughout the existence of the support obligation. (b) A tribunal of the Virgin Islands may not modify a spousal-support order issued by a tribunal of another state […]
