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The 2024 Florida Statutes

Title VI
CIVIL PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE
Chapter 88
UNIFORM INTERSTATE FAMILY SUPPORT ACT
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F.S. 88.3051
88.3051 Duties and powers of responding tribunal.—
(1) When a responding tribunal of this state receives a petition or comparable pleading from an initiating tribunal or directly pursuant to s. 88.3011(2), it shall cause the petition or comparable 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 one or more 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 a bench warrant, capias, or writ of bodily attachment for an obligor who has failed after proper notice to appear at a hearing ordered by the tribunal and enter the bench warrant, capias, or writ of bodily attachment 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.
(l) Grant any other available remedy.
(3) A responding tribunal of this state shall include in a support order issued under this act, or in the documents accompanying the order, the calculations on which the support order is based.
(4) A responding tribunal of this state may not condition the payment of a support order issued under this act upon compliance by a party with provisions for visitation.
(5) If a responding tribunal of this state issues an order under this act, the tribunal shall send a copy of the order to the petitioner and the respondent and to the initiating tribunal, if any.
(6) 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.
History.—s. 3, ch. 96-189; s. 21, ch. 97-170; s. 20, ch. 2011-92.

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Arrestable Offenses / Crimes under Fla. Stat. 88.3051
Level: Degree
Misdemeanor/Felony: First/Second/Third

Current data shows no reason an arrest or criminal charge should have occurred directly under Florida Statute 88.3051.

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Cases Citing Statute 88.3051

Total Results: 4

State of Florida, Department of etc. v. Autumn Danielle Pare

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 2015-10-20T00:00:00-07:00

Citation: 177 So. 3d 663

Snippet: not a reason to deny a petition for support. § 88.3051(4), Fla. Stat. (2014) (“A responding tribunal of

Department of Revenue v. Marchines

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 2007-03-16T00:00:00-07:00

Citation: 974 So. 2d 1085, 2007 Fla. App. LEXIS 3848, 2007 WL 777507

Snippet: 88.1021, followed the protocol set out in section 88.3051 and notified Mr. Mar-chines of the registration…circuit court or other appropriate location. Section 88.3051(1) directs the Department, when it receives a petition

Houston v. Maglio

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 2003-05-21T00:00:00-07:00

Citation: 845 So. 2d 971, 2003 Fla. App. LEXIS 7963, 2003 WL 21180332

Snippet: the original paternity judgment. See §§ 88.3041, 88.3051, Fla. Stat. (2002). Maglio moved to dismiss this

State, Dept. of Revenue Ex Rel. Rochell v. Morris

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 1999-05-27T00:53:00-07:00

Citation: 736 So. 2d 41

Snippet: refusal to comply with visitation obligations. See § 88.3051(4), Fla. Stat. (1997); Department of Revenue et