Section 30-4-91

(Repealed effective January 1, 2000) Powers and duties of court of state acting as initiating state generally.

(a) If the court of this state, acting as an initiating state, finds that the petition sets forth facts from which it may be determined that the defendant owes a duty of support and that a court of the responding state may obtain jurisdiction of the defendant or his property, it shall so certify and shall cause three copies of (1) the petition, (2) its certificate and (3) this article to be transmitted to the court in the responding state.

If the name and address of such court is unknown and the responding state has an information agency comparable to that established in the initiating state, it shall cause such copies to be transmitted to the state information agency or other proper official of the responding state, with a request that it forward them to the proper court and that the court of the responding state acknowledge their receipt to the court of the initiating state.

(b) When the court of this state, acting as an initiating state, has reason to believe that the defendant may flee the jurisdiction, it may request in its certificate that the court of the responding state obtain the body of the defendant by appropriate process if permissible under the law of the responding state.

(Acts 1951, No. 879, p. 1515, §11; Acts 1953, No. 823, p. 1107, §5; Acts 1997, No. 97-245, p. 398, §1.)