NJSA 2A:4-30.87 Verification of complaint, petition, pleadings; contents.

NJSA 2A:4-30.87 Verification of complaint, petition, pleadings; contents.

23. a. A petitioner seeking to establish or modify a support order or to determine parentage in a proceeding under this act shall verify the complaint, petition or comparable pleading. Unless otherwise ordered under section 24 of this act, the complaint, petition or comparable pleading or accompanying documents shall provide, so far as known, the name, residential address, and social security numbers of the obligor and the obligee, and the name, sex, residential address, social security number, and date of birth of each child for whom support is sought. The complaint, petition or comparable pleading shall be accompanied by a certified copy of any support order in effect. The complaint, petition or comparable pleading may include any other information that may assist in locating or identifying the respondent.

b.The complaint, petition or comparable pleading shall specify the relief sought. The complaint, petition or comparable pleading and accompanying documents shall conform substantially with the requirements imposed by the forms mandated by federal law for use in cases filed by a support enforcement agency.

NJSA 2A:4-30.81 Filing of complaint, petition, comparable pleading; notification to petitioner; powers of tribunal.

NJSA 2A:4-30.81 Filing of complaint, petition, comparable pleading; notification to petitioner; powers of tribunal.

17. a. When a responding tribunal of this State receives a complaint, petition or comparable pleading from an initiating tribunal or directly pursuant to subsection c. of section 13 of this act, it shall cause the complaint, petition or comparable pleading to be filed and notify the petitioner where and when it was filed.

b.A responding tribunal of this State, to the extent otherwise authorized by law, may do one or more of the following:

(1)issue or enforce a support order, modify a child support order, or render a judgment to determine parentage;

(2)order an obligor to comply with a support order, specifying the amount and the manner of compliance;

(3)order income withholding;

(4)determine the amount of any arrearages, and specify a method of payment;

(5)enforce orders by civil or criminal contempt, or both;

(6)set aside property for satisfaction of the support order;

(7)place liens and order execution on the obligor's property;

(8)order an obligor to keep the tribunal informed of the obligor's current residential address, telephone number, employer, address of employment, and telephone number at the place of employment;

(9)issue 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;

(10) order the obligor to seek appropriate employment by specified methods;

(11) award reasonable attorney's fees and other fees and costs; and

(12) grant any other available remedy.

c.A 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.

d.A 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.

e.If 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, or may deliver a copy to the parties at the conclusion of a proceeding.