are you people serious? before you slam someone get your facts straight. 'if' jurisdiction is changed, it would be for custody only. child support stays where the ncp is - and follows the ncp wherever he/she moves. so changing 'jurisdiction' for custody is not going to have any impact whatsoever on child support
to answer your question - check out uccjea. yes you can change the jurisdiction - but you will have to do one of two things - get the current state to relinquish jurisdiction based on it being an inconvenient forum. and/or get your new state to communicate w/ the old state and get permission to 'assume' jurisdiction based on it being hte home state and having the most info on the childs care and training, family relationships etc. of course it depends, if you moved and all your and the fathers family are in the old state - it would be difficult to convince the new state there is more info there just because you live there. by the same token, if you have court history -the old state can say it IS a convenient forum, as they know the history, and the childs father and family still have a close connection to that state regardless of where the child physically resides. there are several factors in uccjea that you have to see if any apply that you could petition based on those grounds. i had two cases moved. one was a fight becuase jf like court only if it was close for him and expensive for me - but he soon proved his frivolousness and the courts agreed to move it to where i am (had he not been such a jerk they would have kept it w/ him simply becuase he still lived there no matter how long i lived in pa). the other just got moved because we both eventually left the state.
depending on the state your in its harder to move the case. the one i just moved - even though uccjea CLEARLY states that the original jurisisdiction remains unless xyz (several criteria to be met) OR both parties leave the state...pa tried to argue that IN had to relinquish jurisdiction. um. no. we both left so they no longer have it period - read the law. it was such a nightmare, my ex wasn't even arguing about the change and the pa court still hassled me until i wrote the attorney general. so just know your facts and proceed from there.
