{"data":{"id":"us-nj/n.j.-stat.-2a-4-30.144","jurisdiction":"us-nj","citation":"N.J. Stat. § 2A:4-30.144","heading":"Duties and powers of responding tribunal.","body":"21.\tDuties and powers of responding tribunal.\na.\tWhen a responding tribunal of this State receives a petition or comparable pleading from an initiating tribunal or directly pursuant to subsection b. of section 17 of this act, it shall cause the petition or pleading to be filed and notify the petitioner where and when it was filed.\nb.\tA responding tribunal of this State, to the extent not prohibited by other law, may do one or more of the following:\n(1)\testablish or enforce a support order, modify a child support order, determine the controlling child support order, or determine parentage of a child;\n(2)\torder an obligor to comply with a support order, specifying the amount and the manner of compliance;\n(3)\torder income withholding;\n(4)\tdetermine the amount of any arrearages, and specify a method of payment;\n(5)\tenforce orders by civil or criminal contempt, or both;\n(6)\tset aside property for satisfaction of the support order;\n(7)\tplace liens and order execution on the obligor's property;\n(8)\torder an obligor to keep the tribunal informed of the obligor's current residential address, electronic-mail address, telephone number, employer, address of employment, and telephone number at the place of employment;\n(9)\tissue a bench warrant for an obligor who has failed after proper notice to appear at a hearing ordered by the tribunal and enter the bench warrant in any local and state computer systems for criminal warrants;\n(10) order the obligor to seek appropriate employment by specified methods;\n(11) award reasonable attorney's fees and other fees and costs; and\n(12) grant any other available remedy.\nc.\tA responding tribunal of this State shall include in a support order issued under this act, or in the documents accompanying the order, the calculations on which the support order is based.\nd.\tA responding tribunal of this State may not condition the payment of a support order issued under this act upon compliance by a party with provisions for visitation.\ne.\tIf a responding tribunal of this State issues an order under this act, the tribunal shall send a copy of the order to the petitioner and the respondent and to the initiating tribunal, if any.\nf.\tIf requested to enforce a support order, arrears, or judgment or modify a support order stated in a foreign currency, a responding tribunal of this State shall convert the amount stated in the foreign currency to the equivalent amount in dollars under the applicable official or market exchange rate as publicly reported.\nL.2016, c.1, s.21.","path":["TITLE 2A ADMINISTRATION OF CIVIL AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE"],"source_url":"https://pub.njleg.state.nj.us/statutes/STATUTES-TEXT.zip","current_through":"P.L.2025, c.405, and J.R.22","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-27T17:54:13Z","sha256":"e5557d026f153057af1cc478aef7e0d0bc0cec46a38c5c1fafdc20316aa3a5f9","source_id":"us-nj","stale":true,"prev":"us-nj/n.j.-stat.-2a-4-30.143","next":"us-nj/n.j.-stat.-2a-4-30.145"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}