Orders for Custody, Support and Alimony

Orders for Custody, Support and Alimony. In granting or denying an annulment or a divorce, the court may make such orders for custody of minor children for their support, for support of either party, and for the disposition of either or both parties’ interest in any property in which both have interests, as it deems justice and the best interests of all concerned may require. While an action for annulment or divorce is pending, the court may make temporary orders covering any of these matters pending final decree. Any decree as to custody or support of minor children or of the parties is subject to revision by the court at any time upon motion of either party and such notice, if any, as the court deems justice requires. Source: 39 TTC § 103. Commission Comment: While preparing this chapter for enactment in 1983 as part of the original Commonwealth Code, the Commission opted to delete 39 TTC § 101 because it contained obsolete provisions concerning the competency of community and district courts to grant annulments or divorces. (See 8 CMC § 1101, concerning the authority of the Commonwealth Trial Court—renamed the Commonwealth Superior Court in 1989—to grant adoptions, annulments or divorces.) The Congress of Micronesia had previously repealed 39 TTC § 102.