The 2023 Florida Statutes (including Special Session C)

Title VI
CIVIL PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE

Chapter 88
UNIFORM INTERSTATE FAMILY SUPPORT ACT

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F.S. 88.2061

88.2061 Continuing jurisdiction to enforce child support order.—

(1) A tribunal of this state that has issued a child support order consistent with the law of this state may serve as an initiating tribunal to request a tribunal of another state to enforce:

(a) The order if the order is the controlling order and has not been modified by a tribunal of another state that assumed jurisdiction pursuant to the Uniform Interstate Family Support Act; or

(b) A money judgment for arrears of support and interest on the order accrued before a determination that an order of a tribunal of another state is the controlling order.

(2) A tribunal of this state having continuing jurisdiction over a support order may act as a responding tribunal to enforce the order.

History.—s. 2, ch. 96-189; s. 10, ch. 2011-92.

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Amendments to 88.2061

Arrestable Offenses / Crimes under Fla. Stat. 88.2061

Level: Degree
Misdemeanor/Felony: First/Second/Third

Current data shows no reason an arrest or criminal charge should have occurred directly under Florida Statute 88.2061.

Annotations, Discussions, Cases:

Cases from cite.case.law:

SOOTIN, v. SOOTIN,, 41 So. 3d 993 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 2010)

. . . . § 88.2061(2) (“A tribunal of this state having continuing exclusive jurisdiction over a support order . . .

SPALDING, v. SPALDING,, 886 So. 2d 1075 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 2004)

. . . The Former Wife, who opposed any reduction, argued that under section 88.2061(3), Florida Statutes (2003 . . . Sections 88.2051, 88.2061(3) and 88.6031, Florida Statutes (2003), three of the provisions of UIFSA implicated . . . Similarly, under section 88.2061(3), a court of Florida that lacks continuing exclusive jurisdiction . . .