78B-14-305. Duties and powers of responding tribunal.
(1) When a responding tribunal of this state receives a petition or comparable pleading
from an initiating tribunal or directly pursuant to Subsection 78B-14-301(2), it shall cause the
petition or pleading to be filed and notify the petitioner where and when it was filed.
(2) A responding tribunal of this state, to the extent not prohibited by other law, may do
one or more of the following:
(a) issue or enforce a support order, modify a child-support order, determine the
controlling child-support order, or determine parentage;
(b) order an obligor to comply with a support order, specifying the amount and the
manner of compliance;
(c) order income withholding;
(d) determine the amount of any arrearages and specify a method of payment;
(e) enforce orders by civil or criminal contempt, or both;
(f) set aside property for satisfaction of the support order;
(g) place liens and order execution on the obligor's property;
(h) 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;
(i) 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;
(j) order the obligor to seek appropriate employment by specified methods;
(k) award reasonable attorney fees and other fees and costs; and
(l) grant any other available remedy.
(3) A responding tribunal of this state shall include in a support order issued under this
chapter, or in the documents accompanying the order, the calculations on which the support order
is based.
(4) A responding tribunal of this state may not condition the payment of a support order
issued under this chapter upon compliance by a party with provisions for parent-time.
(5) If a responding tribunal of this state issues an order under this chapter, the tribunal
shall send a copy of the order to the petitioner and the respondent and to the initiating tribunal, if
any.
(6) If 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.
Renumbered and Amended by Chapter 3, 2008 General Session
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