NEW JERSEY DIVORCE : INTEREST ON CHILD SUPPORT ARREARS

In this Bergen County divorce case, the child support judgment was to bear post-judgment interest . Where the support is being paid through Probation, it  must calculate and collect the interest. But the Rule only requires Probation to calculate and collect the interest when it locates assets on which to execute, or when the debtor seeks a Warrant of Satisfaction. Where plaintiff calculates the interest herself, she is entitled to an order adding the interest to her former husband's Probation-enforced child support account. The court rejects the contentions that New Jersey Probation has the discretion either to determine that New Jersey child support judgments do not bear interest or to decline to collect it.     Pryce v. Scharff, ___ N.J. Super. ___ (App. Div. 2006); New Jersey App. Div., April 7, 2006