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36-6-231 - Proceeding for enforcement of registered decree when modification procedures are pending in another state.

36-6-231. Proceeding for enforcement of registered decree when modification procedures are pending in another state.

If a proceeding for enforcement under this part is commenced in a court of this state and the court determines that a proceeding to modify the determination is pending in a court of another state having jurisdiction to modify the determination under this part, the enforcing court shall immediately communicate with the modifying court. The proceeding for enforcement continues unless the enforcing court, after consultation with the modifying court, stays or dismisses the proceeding.

[Acts 1999, ch. 389, § 32.]