Sec. 6. (a) Except as provided in:

(1) subsection (b); or

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Terms Used In Indiana Code 31-16-16-6

  • 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.
(2) IC 31-14-19-1;

a court may not retroactively modify an obligor’s duty to pay a delinquent support payment.

     (b) A court with jurisdiction over a support order may modify an obligor’s duty to pay a support payment that becomes due:

(1) after notice of the petition to modify the support order has been given either directly or through the appropriate agent to:

(A) the obligee; or

(B) if the obligee is the petitioner, the obligor; and

(2) before a final order concerning the petition for modification is entered.

[Pre-1997 Recodification Citation: 31-2-11-12.]

As added by P.L.1-1997, SEC.8.