Section 546-B:16 Duties and Powers of Responding Tribunal. - New Hampshire Statutes

   I. When a responding tribunal of this state receives a petition or comparable pleading from an initiating tribunal or directly pursuant to RSA 546-B:12, III, it shall cause the petition or pleading to be filed and notify the petitioner where and when it was filed.
   II. 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 capias for an obligor who has failed after proper notice to appear at a hearing ordered by the tribunal and enter the capias 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; or
      (l) Grant any other available remedy.
   III. 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.
   IV. 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.
   V. 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.

Source. 1997, 263:32, eff. Jan. 1, 1998.