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NOTE: This section was repealed by L.2016, c.1, effective 2016-04-01.

New Jersey Statutes, Title: 2A, ADMINISTRATION OF CIVIL AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE

    Chapter 4:

      Section: 2A:4-30.89: Assessment of fees, costs.

          
25. a. The petitioner may not be required to pay a filing fee or other costs.

b. If an obligee prevails, a responding tribunal may assess against an obligor filing fees, reasonable attorney's fees, other costs, and necessary travel and other reasonable expenses incurred by the obligee and the obligee's witnesses. The tribunal may not assess fees, costs, or expenses against the obligee or the support enforcement agency of either the initiating or responding state, except as provided by other law. Attorney's fees may be taxed as costs, and may be ordered paid directly to the attorney, who may enforce the order in the attorney's own name. Payment of support owed to the obligee has priority over fees, costs and expenses.

c. The tribunal shall order the payment of costs and reasonable attorney's fees if it determines that a hearing was requested primarily for delay. In a proceeding under sections 33 through 46 of this act, a hearing is presumed to have been requested primarily for delay if a registered support order is confirmed or enforced without change.

L.1998,c.2,s.25.



This section added to the Rutgers Database: 2013-06-10 16:36:30.






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