25-1245. Duties and powers of responding
tribunal


A. When a responding tribunal of this state receives a petition or comparable
pleading from an initiating tribunal or directly pursuant to section 25-1241, subsection
B, it shall file the petition or pleading and notify the petitioner of where and when it
was filed.


B. A responding tribunal of this state, to the extent not prohibited by other law,
may do one or more of the following:


1. Issue or enforce a support order, modify a child support order, determine the
controlling child support order or determine parentage.


2. Order an obligor to comply with a support order, specifying the amount and the
manner of compliance.


3. Order income withholding.


4. Determine the amount of any arrearages and specify a method of payment.


5. Enforce orders by civil or criminal contempt, or both.


6. Set aside property for satisfaction of the support order.


7. Place liens and order execution on the obligor's property.


8. 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.


9. Issue a civil arrest warrant for an obligor who has failed after proper notice
to appear at a hearing ordered by the tribunal and enter the civil arrest warrant in any
local and state computer systems for criminal warrants.


10. Order the obligor to seek appropriate employment by specified methods.


11. Award reasonable attorney fees and other fees and costs.


12. Grant any other available remedy.


C. 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.


D. A responding tribunal of this state may not condition the payment of a support
order issued under this chapter on compliance by a party with provisions for visitation.


E. 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.


F. 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.