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The 2025 Florida Statutes

Title VI
CIVIL PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE
Chapter 88
UNIFORM INTERSTATE FAMILY SUPPORT ACT
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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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State, Dept. of Revenue Ex Rel. Rochell v. Morris, 736 So. 2d 41 (Fla. 1st DCA 1999).

Cited 9 times | Published | Florida 1st District Court of Appeal | 1999 WL 334754

...natural father. We reverse. It is well-established that a trial court may not condition the payment of child support, which is a vested right of the child, solely on a custodial parent's failure or refusal to comply with visitation obligations. See § 88.3051(4), Fla....
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State of Florida, Dep't of etc. v. Autumn Danielle Pare, 177 So. 3d 663 (Fla. 1st DCA 2015).

Published | Florida 1st District Court of Appeal

...This ability arises from the fact that child support is a right which belongs to the child. Morris v. Swanson, 940 So. 2d 1256, 1257 (Fla. 1st DCA 2006). The fact that the parties may be engaged in a custody dispute is not a reason to deny a petition for support. § 88.3051(4), Fla....
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Dep't of Revenue v. Marchines, 974 So. 2d 1085 (Fla. 2d DCA 2007).

Published | Florida 2nd District Court of Appeal | 2007 Fla. App. LEXIS 3848, 2007 WL 777507

...ter 88, Florida Statutes (2004), to register and enforce a Pennsylvania child support arrearage judgment against Mr. Mar-chines for over $34,000. The Department, the responding tribunal as defined in section 88.1021, followed the protocol set out in section 88.3051 and notified Mr....
...of chapter 88. And, in this case, the Department did just that. Section 88.1011(14) defines “register” to mean “to record or file” a support order in the Registry of Foreign Support Orders of the circuit court or other appropriate location. Section 88.3051(1) directs the Department, when it receives a petition and order such as the Pennsylvania order at issue here, to “cause the petition or comparable pleading to be filed and notify the petitioner where and when it was filed.” Most...

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