Title 15
Domestic Relations
Chapter 23.1
Uniform Interstate Family Support Act
Article 6
Registration, Enforcement and Modification of Support Order
Part 3
Registration and Modification of Child-Support Order of Another State
R.I. Gen. Laws § 15-23.1-609
§ 15-23.1-609. Procedure to register child support order of another state for modification.
A party or support enforcement agency seeking to modify, or to modify and enforce, a child support order issued in another state shall register that order in this state in the same manner provided in §§ 15-23.1-601 — 15-23.1-608, if the order has not been registered. A petition for modification may be filed at the same time as a request for registration, or later. The pleading must specify the grounds for modification.
History of Section.
P.L. 1997, ch. 170, § 15; P.L. 2006, ch. 69, § 2; P.L. 2006, ch. 76, § 2; P.L. 2011, ch. 243, § 1; P.L. 2011, ch. 263, § 1.