252K.305 - DUTIES AND POWERS OF RESPONDING TRIBUNAL.
252K.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 section 252K.301, subsection 3, it shall cause the
petition or pleading to be filed and notify the movant where and when
it was filed.
2. A responding tribunal of this state, to the extent otherwise
authorized by law, may do one or more of the following:
a. Issue or enforce a support order, modify a child support
order, or render a judgment to 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's fees and other fees and costs.
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 visitation.
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
movant and the respondent and to the initiating tribunal, if any. Section History: Recent Form
97 Acts, ch 175, §138
Referred to in § 252K.401