As Amended
SEC. 93-11-5. Definitions.
As used in Sections 93-11-1 through 93-11-71 unless the context requires otherwise:
(1) "State" includes any state, territory or possession of the United States and the District of Columbia in which this or a substantially similar reciprocal law has been enacted.
(2) "Initiating state" means any state or jurisdiction in which a proceeding pursuant to this or a substantially similar reciprocal law is commenced.
(3) "Responding state" means any state or jurisdiction in which any proceeding pursuant to the proceeding in the initiating state is or may be commenced.
(4) "Court" means the chancery court of each county in this state and when the context requires, means the court of any other state as defined in a substantially similar reciprocal law.
(5) "Law" includes both common and statute law and civil law where applicable.
(6) "Duty of support" includes any duty of support imposed or imposable by law, or by any court order, decree of judgment, whether interlocutory or final, whether incidental to a proceeding for divorce, judicial or legal separation, separate maintenance or otherwise.
(7) "Obligor" means any person owing a duty of support.
(8) "Obligee" means any person to whom a duty of support is owed.
(9) "Jurisdiction" means any state or political subdivision, territory or possession of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and any province or territory of Canada.
SOURCES: Codes, 1942, Sec. 456-02; Laws, 1954, ch. 211, Sec. 2; 1993, ch. 506, Sec. 1, eff from and after July 2, 1993.
1997 Amendment:
SECTION 131. Sections 93-11-1, 93-11-3, 93-11-5, 93-11-7, 93-11-9, 93-11-11, 93-11-13, 93-11-15, 93-11-17, 93-11-19, 93-11-21, 93-11-23, 93-11-25, 93-11-27, 93-11-29, 93-11-31, 93-11-33, 93-11-35, 93-11-37, 93-11-39, 93-11-41, 93-11-43, 93-11-45, 93-11-47, 93-11-49, 93-11-51, 93-11-53, 93-11-55, 93-11-57, 93-11-59, 93-11-61, 93-11-63, 93-12-1, 93-12-3, 93-12-5, 93-12-7, 93-12-9, 93-12-11, 93-12-13, 93-12-15 and 93-12-21, Mississippi Code of 1972, which provide for and constitute the Uniform Reciprocal Enforcement of Support Law of Mississippi and the Enforcement of Child Support Orders from Foreign Jurisdictions Law, are repealed.
SOURCE :1997 Laws, Chapter 588, Sec. 131, SB2164, Effective July 1, 1997.