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Home » US Law » 2022 New Hampshire Revised Statutes » Title LV - Proceedings in Special Cases » Title 546-B - Uniform Interstate Family Support Act » Section 546-B:11-b – Continuing, Exclusive Jurisdiction to Modify Spousal Support Order.
    546-B:11-b Continuing, Exclusive Jurisdiction to Modify Spousal Support Order. –

I. A tribunal of this state issuing a spousal support order consistent with the law of this state has continuing, exclusive jurisdiction to modify the spousal support order throughout the existence of the support obligation.

II. A tribunal of this state may not modify a spousal support order issued by a tribunal of another state or a foreign country having continuing, exclusive jurisdiction over that order under the law of that state or foreign country.

III. A tribunal of this state that has continuing, exclusive jurisdiction over a spousal support order may serve as:

(a) An initiating tribunal to request a tribunal of another state to enforce the spousal support order issued in this state; or

(b) A responding tribunal to enforce or modify its own spousal support order.

Source. 2015, 75:1, eff. Jan. 1, 2016.