Guam § 35305 - Duties and Powers of Responding Tribunal.

§ 35305. Duties and Powers of Responding Tribunal.

(a) When a responding tribunal of this state receives a petition or

comparable pleading from an initiating tribunal or directly pursuant to §

35301(b), it shall cause the petition or pleading to be filed and notify the

petitioner where and when it was filed.

(b) A responding tribunal of this state, to the extent not prohibited

by any other law, may do one (1) or more of the following:

(1) establish or enforce a support order, modify a child-support

order, determine the controlling child-support order, or determine

parentage of a child;

(2) order an obligor to comply with a support order, specifying

the amount and the manner of compliance;

(3) order income withholding;

(4) determine the amount of any arrearages, and specify a

method of payment;

(5) enforce orders by civil or criminal contempt, or both;

(6) set aside property for satisfaction of the support order;

(7) place liens and order execution on the obligor’s property;

(8) 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;

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(9) issue a bench warrant for an obligor who has failed after

proper notice to appear at a hearing ordered by the tribunal and enter

the bench warrant in any local and state computer systems for

criminal warrants;

(10) order the obligor to seek appropriate employment by

specified methods;

(11) award reasonable attorney’s fees and other fees and costs;

and

(12) grant any other available remedy.

(c) 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.

(d) 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.

(e) 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.

(f) 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.