2A:4-30.75 Response to multiple registrations, petitions for enforcement.


2A:4-30.75  Response to multiple registrations, petitions for enforcement.

      11.      In responding to multiple registrations or petitions for enforcement of two or more child support orders in effect at the same time with regard to the same obligor and different individual obligees, at least one of which was issued by a tribunal of another state, a tribunal of this State shall enforce those orders in the same manner as if the multiple orders had been issued by a tribunal of this State.

      L.1998,c.2,s.11.
 
2A:4-30.76  Crediting of amounts collected.

      12.      Amounts collected and credited for a particular period pursuant to a support order issued by a tribunal of another state must be credited against the amounts accruing or accrued for the same period under a support order issued by a tribunal of this State.

      L.1998,c.2,s.12.
 
2A:4-30.77  Applicability of article; proceedings.

      13.  a.  Except as otherwise provided in this act, this article applies to all proceedings under this act.

      b.      This act provides for the following proceedings:

      (1)       establishment of an order for spousal support or child support pursuant to section 32 of this act;

      (2)      enforcement of a support order and income-withholding order of another state without registration pursuant to sections 33  through 39 of this act;

      (3)      registration of an order for spousal support or child support of another state for enforcement pursuant to sections 40 through 53 of this act;

      (4)      modification of an order for child support or spousal support issued by a tribunal of this State pursuant to sections 6 through 9 of this act;

      (5)      registration of an order for child support of another state for modification pursuant to sections 40 through 53 of  this act;

      (6)      determination of parentage pursuant to section 54 of this act; and

      (7)      assertion of jurisdiction over nonresidents pursuant to sections 4 and 5 of this act.

      c.      An individual or a support enforcement agency may commence a proceeding authorized under this act by filing a complaint, petition or comparable pleading in an initiating tribunal for forwarding to a responding tribunal or by filing a complaint, petition or a comparable pleading directly in a tribunal of another state which has or can obtain personal jurisdiction over the respondent.

      L.1998,c.2,s.13.