When there has been a substantial change in the income of the paying party or other factors that determined the original child support obligation, a party may request, by motion, modification of a Port Gamble S’Klallam Community Court child support order.
(a) 
A motion for a modification of child support shall be accompanied by an affidavit setting forth the factual basis for the motion and the modification requested.
(b) 
The party obligated to pay child support, or both parties, if the child is eligible for social security benefits or the parties share equal residential time with the child, shall file updated financial information forms at least ten (10) days before the modification hearing, except that:
(i) 
In agreed modification orders no financial information need be filed with the Court; and
(ii) 
A party is not required to provide his or her financial information as part of the Court record provided the party has made full and complete financial disclosure to the Port Gamble S’Klallam Child Support Program and the Program has certified that it has reviewed the financial information and its recommendation is based upon that information.
(c) 
Child support orders may be modified for future support only. Amounts of past due support shall not be modified except as provided in 21.03.69 through 21.03.76, “Reduction of Past Support Owed.”
(Res. 01 A 117, 12/11/2001, adopted Title 21 on an interim basis; Res. 02 A 098, 9/10/2002, adopted Title 21 as permanent legislation; amended by Res. 22-A-138, 8/22/2022, to eliminate unnecessary paperwork and documentation submission from custodial parent.)
A party may request modification of a foreign child support order by filing a child support petition including all the information set forth in section 21.03.06, as well as a copy of the foreign child support order.
(a) 
The Court shall refer the modification petition to the Port Gamble S’Klallam Child Support Program for its recommendation.
(b) 
The Court may modify an order issued by another nation, state or tribe if the Tribe has jurisdiction to make a child support order; and
(i) 
The court of the other nation, state or tribe no longer has continuing, exclusive jurisdiction of the child support order because that jurisdiction is no longer the child’s state or tribe or the residence of any party; or
(ii) 
Both parties have agreed to the Port Gamble S’Klallam Community Court assuming jurisdiction over the modification.
(Res. 01 A 117, 12/11/2001, adopted Title 21 on an interim basis; Res. 02 A 098, 9/10/2002, adopted Title 21 as permanent legislation.)
A child support order of the Port Gamble S’Klallam Community Court supercedes an administrative order of another nation, state or tribe.
If a party wishes to have a Port Gamble S’Klallam Community Court child support order replace a foreign administrative child support order, he or she may file a child support petition including all the information set forth in section 21.03.06, as well as a copy of the foreign administrative order.
The Port Gamble S’Klallam child support order shall address all time periods covered by the foreign administrative order.
(Res. 01 A 117, 12/11/2001, adopted Title 21 on an interim basis; Res. 02 A 098, 9/10/2002, adopted Title 21 as permanent legislation.)