78B-14-305 - Duties and powers of responding tribunal.
78B-14-305. Duties and powers of responding tribunal.
(1) When a responding tribunal of this state receives a petition or comparable pleadingfrom an initiating tribunal or directly pursuant to Subsection 78B-14-301(2), it shall cause thepetition 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 doone or more of the following:
(a) issue or enforce a support order, modify a child-support order, determine thecontrolling child-support order, or determine parentage;
(b) order an obligor to comply with a support order, specifying the amount and themanner 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 residentialaddress, telephone number, employer, address of employment, and telephone number at the placeof employment;
(i) issue a bench warrant for an obligor who has failed after proper notice to appear at ahearing ordered by the tribunal and enter the bench warrant in any local and state computersystems 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 thischapter, or in the documents accompanying the order, the calculations on which the support orderis based.
(4) A responding tribunal of this state may not condition the payment of a support orderissued 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 tribunalshall send a copy of the order to the petitioner and the respondent and to the initiating tribunal, ifany.
(6) If requested to enforce a support order, arrears, or judgment or modify a support orderstated in a foreign currency, a responding tribunal of this state shall convert the amount stated inthe foreign currency to the equivalent amount in dollars under the applicable official or marketexchange rate as publicly reported.
Renumbered and Amended by Chapter 3, 2008 General Session