769.305 Duties and powers of responding tribunal.

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(1)Whenever a responding tribunal of this state receives a petition or comparable pleading from an initiating tribunal or directly under s. 769.301

(3), it shall cause the petition 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 do any of the following:

(a)Establish or enforce a support order, modify a child support order, determine the controlling child support order, or determine parentage of a child.

(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, electronic mail address, telephone number, employer, address of employment, and telephone number at the place of employment.

(i)Issue an order under s. 818.02

(6)for the arrest of an obligor who has failed after proper notice to appear at a hearing ordered by the tribunal and enter the order for arrest 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 fees and other fees and costs.

(L)Grant any other available remedy.