Delaware Code Title 13 Sec. 6-301 – Proceedings under this chapter
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(a) Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, the provisions of this subchapter apply to all proceedings under this chapter.
Terms Used In Delaware Code Title 13 Sec. 6-301
- Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
- State: means the State of Delaware; and when applied to different parts of the United States, it includes the District of Columbia and the several territories and possessions of the United States. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302
(b) An individual petitioner or a support enforcement agency may initiate a proceeding authorized under this chapter by filing a petition in an initiating tribunal for forwarding to a responding tribunal or by filing a petition or a comparable pleading directly in a tribunal of another state or a foreign country which has or can obtain personal jurisdiction over the respondent.
69 Del. Laws, c. 238, § ?1; 71 Del. Laws, c. 216, §§ ?127-129; 75 Del. Laws, c. 64, § ?1; 80 Del. Laws, c. 60, § ?3;