Rule Text
A. Remedies provided by this Chapter are cumulative and do not affect the availability of remedies under other law or the recognition of a foreign support order on the basis of comity.
B. This Chapter does not:
(1) Provide the exclusive method of establishing or enforcing a support order under the law of this state; or
(2) Grant a tribunal of this state jurisdiction to render judgment or issue an order relating to child custody or visitation in a proceeding under this Chapter.
Amendment history: Acts 1995, No. 251, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 1996; Acts 1997, No. 1241, §1, eff. July 15, 1997; Acts 2010, No. 877, §3, eff. July 1, 2010; Acts 2015, No. 80, §1, eff. July 1, 2015.
Plain-English Summary (for reference only — not a substitute for the rule text above)
This summary is not the rule. The rule text controls.
If you're trying to get child support set up or enforced, this rule says you're not limited to just one legal option. The methods described in this chapter of the law are extra tools you can use. They don't replace or block other legal ways to handle support cases that might exist under different laws.
This also means courts can still recognize and honor child support orders from other countries, based on general legal cooperation between different justice systems. So if someone has a valid support order from another country, Louisiana courts don't have to ignore it just because this specific chapter doesn't mention it.
Finally, this rule makes clear that these support laws don't give Louisiana courts any new power over child custody or visitation cases. If a custody or visitation issue comes up, the court has to look to other laws to decide if it even has the authority to make a ruling. This chapter only deals with support, not who gets custody or visitation rights.
