Q: Moved to NJ from PA & PA isn’t legally enforcing my support
I found on the Internet from a New Jersey official website that I can have New Jersey enforce my support order. Can someone please call me or let me know what I do to go about this because everybody seems to give me a run-around .
A: Under the Uniform Interstate Family Support Act, if you now live in New Jersey, you can seek to domesticate your Penn court order for spousal support and then the New Jersey court system has the authority to “enforce your spousal support order” entered by the court in Penn but the New Jersey Court does not have the authority to modify the existing spousal support order, which can only be done by the court system in Penn (since it entered the prior court order for spousal support).
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