What is the Uniform Interstate Family Support Act?
A very important issue in child support is whether a New Jersey support award can be enforced in other states. Alternatively, can an out of state child support award be enforced in New Jersey. To address these interstate child support issues, the United States Commission on Interstate Child support, has created a federal law called Uniform Interstate Family Support Act (UIFSA). Each state has their own set of child support guidelines. New Jersey has some of the strictest and highest child support awards in the United States. Therefore, in many cases where a person moves to another state, he may try to have a child support award established anywhere but New Jersey. The child support awards are much lower in the southern states and in Florida than they are in New Jersey. The child support awards are higher in New York than in New Jersey. The UIFSA is very complex. The parties can generally litigate for years and battle over which state has jurisdiction to establish child support. This ca
