Hamilton v. Young (Mississippi 2017)

A Mississippi court does not have jurisdiction to modify the child support provisions of an out-of-state divorce decree unless neither of the parents reside in the issuing state or the parties agree in writing to transfer jurisdiction. The issuing state retains jurisdiction until one of these conditions is met. In this case, a Mississippi chancery court had no jurisdiction to modify the child support provisions of an Ohio divorce decree. The father still lived in Ohio and had not consented to jurisdiction in Mississippi.