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Out-Of -State Support Orders Cannot Be Modified in New York |
| Published: February 18, 2008, 10:17 am |
| Tags: child support, child support modification, full faith and credit, uniform interstate family support act |
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In this day and age in which parties obtain an order regarding child support in one state and then move to another jurisdiction, it is important to know that the original support order cannot be modified or even extended by a court in the second state, so said the New York Court of Appeals in the case Spencer v. Spencer. As reported in the Times Union, the Spencers divorced in Connecticut in 1994. That same year, Mrs. Spencer and the parties’ three children moved to Albany County. The father remained in Connecticut. At the time of the divorce, a Connecticut court ordered James Spencer to pay $250 a week for each child and to provide medical insurance. The payments were to continue until each child turned 18, when child support terminates in Connecticut. Spencer's oldest son turned 18 in 2004, ending his father's obligation under the Connecticut order. But Susan Spencer filed a petition in Albany County in June 2005, seeking to continue payments until their son turned 21, [ Full article ] |
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