New Jersey § 2a:4-30

§ 2a:4-30.

Recognition and enforcement of registered Convention support order. a. Except as otherwise provided in subsection b., a tribunal of this State shall recognize

and enforce a registered Convention support order. b. The following grounds are the only grounds on which a tribunal of this State may

refuse recognition and enforcement of a registered Convention support order: (1) recognition and enforcement of the order is manifestly incompatible with public

policy, including the failure of the issuing tribunal to observe minimum standards

of due process, which include notice and an opportunity to be heard; (2) the issuing tribunal lacked personal jurisdiction consistent with section 6 of

this act; 1 (3) the order is not enforceable in the issuing country; (4) the order was obtained by fraud in connection with a matter of procedure; (5) a record transmitted in accordance with section 66 of this act 2 lacks authenticity or integrity; (6) a proceeding between the same parties and having the same purpose is pending before

a tribunal of this State and that proceeding was the first to be filed; (7) the order is incompatible with a more recent support order involving the same

parties and having the same purpose if the more recent support order is entitled to

recognition and enforcement under this act in this State; (8) payment, to the extent alleged arrears have been paid in whole or in part; (9) in a case in which the respondent neither appeared nor was represented in the

proceeding in the issuing foreign country: (a) if the law of that country provides for prior notice of proceedings, the respondent

did not have proper notice of the proceedings and an opportunity to be heard; or (b) if the law of that country does not provide for prior notice of the proceedings,

the respondent did not have proper notice of the order and an opportunity to be heard

in a challenge or appeal on fact or law before a tribunal; or (10) the order was made in violation of section 71 of this act. 3 c. If a tribunal of this State does not recognize a Convention support order under

paragraph (2), (4) or (9) of subsection b. of this section: (1) the tribunal may not dismiss the proceeding without allowing a reasonable time

for a party to request the establishment of a new Convention support order; and (2) the State IV-D Agency or its designee shall take all appropriate measures to request

a child support order for the obligee if the application for recognition and enforcement

was received under section 64 of this act. 1

N.J.S.A. § 2A:4-30.129. 2

N.J.S.A. § 2A:4-30.189. 3

N.J.S.A. § 2A:4-30.194.