Child support is critical for many families’ month-to-month living. Enforcing this type of support is among the courts’ most key responsibilities and incredibly significant use of their authority. Since child support payments are so important to many families, some states are allowed to extend their jurisdiction to nonresidents in order to collect child support payments.
The need is genuine for single parents or any other family that gets child support, and the courts should be allowed to enforce an action that they have determined. Some states have jurisdiction over residents of other states, or nonresidents, because of the actions or orders that were brought against them in that state.
Financial support for children is one of those actions. Parents who are attempting to flee their responsibility can not escape by simply leaving the state. States have outlined regulations regarding who and how they can pursue the collection of support from nonresidents.
A nonresident of a state can still be served with a support collection action if they are in the state. So if a fleeing parent establishes residency in another state but comes back to the state where they owe financial support to a child, they can be served with an action to collect their overdue payment.
Also, if a nonresident ever resided with the child whose support they are supposed to pay, they can be served with action by that state. Finally, if a child was conceived in a state that a person is not a resident of, they can still be within the jurisdiction of that state in regards to support payments.
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