CALIFORNIA FAMILY LAW
...Enforcement
......URESA/RURESA [Repealed]
.........Procedural Matters
............Priority of Competing Support Orders
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Priority of competing support orders.

Cal. bound by support termination date stated in registered Ore. orders unless modified on motion and showing of changed circumstances.

Where no modification requested, reciprocal support order will not modify prior order unless reciprocal order reflects that issue of modification was raised and litigated.

Judgment in which child support is reserved does not act to limit welfare reimbursement order (as would prior child support order in a specific amount).

Once registered, foreign support order may be modified based upon Cal. law.

Support arrearages accrued under sister state judgment are res judicata and may not be modified when enforcement sought in Cal.

An amount stated in a reciprocal support order does not modify a prior judgment, absent notice and a stated intent to do so.