A child support judgment is the court decision that mandates a party pay child support. When someone has an outstanding balance on their child support payments, he or she is a child support debtor. Due to the nature of child support, the payment of child support debt takes priority over any other debt, except outstanding state income tax, that might be taken out of a person’s wages or funds.
Child support judgment searches are an important part of a legal professional’s job. The state of New Jersey requires legal professionals to determine if the clients they represent are not child support debtors before allowing their client to receive net proceeds from any settlement, judgment, inheritance or award. Additionally, if the “determination,” or outcome of the search, demonstrates that a client is a child support debtor, the legal professional who initiated the search needs to arrange with the client, and the Probation Division of the Superior Court, for the child support debt to be paid out of the sum of money the client would have received. Here’s how to complete a successful NJ child support search in 2019.
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