25-311. Jurisdiction; filing of petition
A. The superior court is vested with original jurisdiction to hear and decide all matters arising pursuant to this chapter and pursuant to chapter 4, article 1 of this title.
B. A proceeding for dissolution of marriage, annulment or legal separation shall be filed in accordance with the Arizona rules of family law procedure.
Structure Arizona Revised Statutes
Title 25 - Marital and Domestic Relations
§ 25-101 - Void and prohibited marriages
§ 25-102 - Consent required for marriage of minors
§ 25-103 - Purposes of title; application of title
§ 25-111 - Requirement of license and solemnization; covenant marriages
§ 25-112 - Marriages contracted in another state; validity and effect
§ 25-121 - Marriage license; application; affidavit
§ 25-123 - Recording licenses; endorsement of solemnization; recording return; lost licenses
§ 25-124 - Persons authorized to perform marriage ceremony; definition
§ 25-125 - Marriage ceremony; official; witnesses; marriage license; covenant marriages
§ 25-127 - Issuance of marriage license by a city or town; transfer of fees; handling fee
§ 25-128 - Unlawful acts of person authorized to solemnize marriages; classification
§ 25-130 - Abstract of marriage in lieu of reproducing marriage license
§ 25-202 - Enforcement of premarital agreements; exception
§ 25-204 - Amendment or revocation of agreement
§ 25-205 - Limitation of actions
§ 25-214 - Management and control
§ 25-215 - Liability of community property and separate property for community and separate debts
§ 25-217 - Ownership of property acquired after moving into state
§ 25-218 - Surrogate parentage contracts; prohibition; custody; definition
§ 25-311 - Jurisdiction; filing of petition
§ 25-312 - Dissolution of marriage; findings necessary
§ 25-313 - Decree of legal separation; findings necessary; termination of decree
§ 25-314 - Pleadings; contents; defense; joinder of parties; confidentiality
§ 25-314.01 - Summary consent petition and decree
§ 25-315 - Preliminary injunction; effect
§ 25-316 - Temporary orders; definition
§ 25-317 - Separation agreement; effect
§ 25-318.01 - Military retirement benefits; disability related waiver
§ 25-318.02 - Convicted spouse; award of community property; definition
§ 25-318.03 - Human embryos; disposition; responsibility for resulting child; definitions
§ 25-319 - Maintenance; guidelines; computation factors
§ 25-320.02 - Self-employed parent; tax practitioner; definition
§ 25-321 - Representation of child by counsel; fees
§ 25-322 - Payment of maintenance or support; records; disclosure
§ 25-323.03 - Forms; alternative forms
§ 25-325 - Decree; finality; restoration of maiden name
§ 25-326 - Independence of provisions of decree or temporary order; forms
§ 25-328 - Sequence of trials when custody or parenting time is an issue
§ 25-330 - Employer cooperation
§ 25-331 - Notification requirements
§ 25-341 - Abrogation of alienation of affections action
§ 25-351 - Domestic relations education; plan; administration
§ 25-352 - Applicability of program; compliance
§ 25-354 - Children's issues education fund; report
§ 25-355 - Fees; deferral or waiver
§ 25-381.01 - Purposes of article
§ 25-381.03 - Applicability of article; determination by superior court
§ 25-381.04 - Assignment of judges; number of sessions
§ 25-381.05 - Transfer of cases; reason; duties of transferee judge
§ 25-381.06 - Court assistants; salaries; appointments
§ 25-381.07 - Director of conciliation; powers and duties
§ 25-381.09 - Petition invoking jurisdiction or for transfer of action to conciliation court
§ 25-381.10 - Petition; caption
§ 25-381.11 - Petition; contents
§ 25-381.12 - Blank forms; assistance in preparing and presenting petition
§ 25-381.14 - Hearing; time; place; notice; citation; witnesses
§ 25-381.15 - Time and place of holding hearings
§ 25-381.17 - Orders; duration of effectiveness; reconciliation agreement
§ 25-381.19 - Transfer of certain actions where minor child involved
§ 25-381.20 - Procedure in actions where no child is involved; conciliation court may accept case
§ 25-381.21 - Construction of article
§ 25-381.22 - Subsequent petition filed within one year
§ 25-381.23 - Option for mandatory conciliation
§ 25-403 - Legal decision-making; best interests of child
§ 25-403.01 - Sole and joint legal decision-making and parenting time
§ 25-403.03 - Domestic violence and child abuse
§ 25-403.06 - Parental access to prescription medication and records
§ 25-403.07 - Identification of a primary caretaker and public assistance
§ 25-403.08 - Resources and fees
§ 25-405 - Interviews by court; professional assistance
§ 25-406 - Investigations and reports
§ 25-407 - Legal decision-making and parenting time hearings; priority; costs; record
§ 25-410 - Judicial supervision
§ 25-412 - Expedited child support and parenting time fund
§ 25-413 - Domestic relations education and mediation fund; report
§ 25-414 - Violation of visitation or parenting time rights; penalties
§ 25-415 - Sanctions for litigation misconduct
§ 25-416 - Sexual assault conviction; effect on rights
§ 25-417 - Parent's blindness; burden of proof; specific written findings; definitions
§ 25-501 - Duties of support; exemption
§ 25-502 - Jurisdiction, venue and procedure; additional enforcement provisions
§ 25-503.01 - Self-employed parent; monies held as security for payment of support
§ 25-505 - Limited income withholding orders; definition
§ 25-505.01 - Administrative income withholding order; notice; definition
§ 25-505.02 - Insurance data exchange; withholding orders; immunity; definitions
§ 25-506 - Order for assignment; foreign support order
§ 25-507 - Forms; alternative forms
§ 25-508 - Enforcement of support orders; fee prohibition
§ 25-510 - Receiving and disbursing support and maintenance monies; arrearages; interest
§ 25-511 - Failure of parent to provide for child; classification
§ 25-511.01 - Spousal maintenance order; violation; classification
§ 25-513 - Employer cooperation; violation; classification
§ 25-514 - Priority of action and judgments
§ 25-516 - Lien; priority; recording; information statement; payoff amount; release
§ 25-517 - License suspension; notice; administrative review or hearing
§ 25-518 - Child support arrearage; license suspension; hearing
§ 25-519 - Regulatory entities; suspension of license
§ 25-520 - Child support enforcement; administrative subpoena; civil penalty
§ 25-521 - Levy; seizure of property for collection of support debt; definitions
§ 25-522 - Administrative review; notice; determination; judicial review; definitions
§ 25-524 - Financial institutions; surrender of assets; nonliability
§ 25-525 - Administrative enforcement; interstate cases; definition
§ 25-526 - Child support enforcement information; internet posting
§ 25-527 - Child support; overpayment; reimbursement
§ 25-528 - Title IV-D recipients; fee
§ 25-529 - Title IV-D cases; alternative medical insurance coverage
§ 25-530 - Spousal maintenance; veterans disability benefits; definition
§ 25-532 - Enrollment of child
§ 25-533 - Insurer obligations
§ 25-534 - Employer obligations
§ 25-552 - Jurisdiction; priority of action
§ 25-553 - Request for arrearages; deadline
§ 25-681 - Child support arrest warrant; definition
§ 25-682 - Time and manner of execution; information
§ 25-683 - Procedure after arrest; payment for release from custody
§ 25-684 - Preexisting warrants
§ 25-685 - Entry into criminal information system
§ 25-804 - Time for instituting proceedings
§ 25-805 - Effect of death, absence or insanity of plaintiff
§ 25-808 - Preliminary injunction; temporary restraining order; effect
§ 25-810 - Liability of parents if putative mother or father is a minor; periodic payments
§ 25-812 - Voluntary acknowledgment of paternity; action to overcome paternity
§ 25-813 - Default order of paternity
§ 25-814 - Presumption of paternity
§ 25-815 - Paternity; full faith and credit
§ 25-816 - Title IV-D child support; paternity establishment; genetic testing
§ 25-817 - Temporary orders; presumption of paternity
§ 25-901 - Covenant marriage; declaration of intent; filing requirements
§ 25-902 - Existing marriages; conversion to covenant marriage; recording requirements
§ 25-903 - Dissolution of a covenant marriage; grounds
§ 25-904 - Decree of legal separation; grounds
§ 25-905 - Temporary orders for support and spousal maintenance
§ 25-906 - Information pamphlet; requirements; distribution
§ 25-1003 - Proceeding governed by other law
§ 25-1004 - Application to Indian tribes
§ 25-1005 - International application of chapter
§ 25-1006 - Effect of child custody determination
§ 25-1008 - Notice to persons outside this state
§ 25-1009 - Appearance and limited immunity
§ 25-1010 - Communication between courts; definition
§ 25-1011 - Taking testimony in another state
§ 25-1012 - Cooperation between courts; preservation of records
§ 25-1013 - Military deployment; home state
§ 25-1031 - Initial child custody jurisdiction
§ 25-1032 - Exclusive continuing jurisdiction
§ 25-1033 - Jurisdiction to modify determination
§ 25-1034 - Temporary emergency jurisdiction
§ 25-1035 - Notice; opportunity to be heard; joinder
§ 25-1036 - Simultaneous proceedings
§ 25-1037 - Inconvenient forum
§ 25-1038 - Jurisdiction declined by reason of conduct
§ 25-1039 - Information to be submitted to court
§ 25-1040 - Appearance of parties and child
§ 25-1221 - Bases for jurisdiction over nonresident
§ 25-1222 - Duration of personal jurisdiction
§ 25-1223 - Initiating and responding tribunal of state
§ 25-1224 - Simultaneous proceedings
§ 25-1225 - Continuing, exclusive jurisdiction to modify child support order
§ 25-1226 - Continuing jurisdiction to enforce child support order
§ 25-1227 - Determination of controlling child support order
§ 25-1228 - Child support orders for two or more obligees
§ 25-1229 - Credit for payments
§ 25-1230 - Application of chapter to nonresident subject to personal jurisdiction
§ 25-1231 - Continuing, exclusive jurisdiction to modify spousal support order
§ 25-1052 - Enforcement under Hague convention
§ 25-1054 - Temporary visitation
§ 25-1055 - Registration of child custody determination
§ 25-1056 - Enforcement of registered determination
§ 25-1057 - Simultaneous proceedings
§ 25-1058 - Expedited enforcement of child custody determination
§ 25-1059 - Service of petition and order
§ 25-1061 - Warrant to take physical custody of child
§ 25-1062 - Costs, fees and expenses
§ 25-1063 - Recognition and enforcement
§ 25-1065 - Role of attorney general
§ 25-1066 - Role of law enforcement
§ 25-1067 - Costs and expenses
§ 25-1203 - State tribunal and support enforcement agency
§ 25-1204 - Remedies cumulative
§ 25-1205 - Application of chapter to resident of foreign country and foreign support proceeding
§ 25-1241 - Proceedings under this chapter
§ 25-1242 - Proceeding by minor parent
§ 25-1243 - Application of law of state
§ 25-1244 - Duties of initiating tribunal
§ 25-1245 - Duties and powers of responding tribunal
§ 25-1246 - Inappropriate tribunal
§ 25-1247 - Duties of support enforcement agency
§ 25-1248 - Duty of the attorney general
§ 25-1250 - Duties of department of economic security
§ 25-1251 - Pleadings and accompanying documents
§ 25-1252 - Nondisclosure of information in exceptional circumstances
§ 25-1254 - Limited immunity of petitioner
§ 25-1255 - Nonparentage as defense
§ 25-1256 - Special rules of evidence and procedure
§ 25-1257 - Communications between tribunals
§ 25-1258 - Assistance with discovery
§ 25-1259 - Receipt and disbursement of payments
§ 25-1271 - Establishment of support order
§ 25-1272 - Proceeding to determine parentage of a child
§ 25-1281 - Employer's receipt of income withholding order of another state
§ 25-1282 - Employer's compliance with income withholding order of another state
§ 25-1283 - Employer's compliance with two or more income withholding orders
§ 25-1284 - Immunity from civil liability
§ 25-1285 - Penalties for noncompliance
§ 25-1286 - Contest by obligor
§ 25-1287 - Administrative enforcement of orders
§ 25-1301 - Registration of order for enforcement
§ 25-1302 - Procedure to register order for enforcement
§ 25-1303 - Effect of registration for enforcement
§ 25-1305 - Notice of registration of order
§ 25-1306 - Procedure to contest validity or enforcement of registered support order
§ 25-1307 - Contest of registration or enforcement
§ 25-1309 - Procedure to register child support order of another state for modification
§ 25-1310 - Effect of registration for modification
§ 25-1311 - Modification of child support order of another state
§ 25-1312 - Recognition of order modified in another state
§ 25-1314 - Notice to issuing tribunal of modification
§ 25-1315 - Jurisdiction to modify child support order of foreign country
§ 25-1316 - Procedure to register child support order of foreign country for modification
§ 25-1333 - Relationship of department of economic security to United States central authority
§ 25-1334 - Initiation by department of economic security of support proceeding under convention
§ 25-1336 - Registration of convention support order
§ 25-1337 - Contest of registered convention support order
§ 25-1338 - Recognition and enforcement of registered convention support order
§ 25-1339 - Partial enforcement
§ 25-1340 - Foreign support agreement
§ 25-1341 - Modification of convention child support order
§ 25-1342 - Personal information; limit on use
§ 25-1343 - Record in original language; English translation
§ 25-1361 - Grounds for rendition
§ 25-1362 - Conditions of rendition