My question involves child support in the State of: NJ
I filed a motion earlier this year for a modification of support. While waiting for the Court to grant my motion and issue an Order revising the amount of support, I continued to make payment of my old support obligation.
In June, the Court issued an Order which reduced my support obligation retroactively to March. There is now a large credit balance in the support account due to money having been already disbursed to my ex.
I have received conflicting information from the NJ Child Support call center representatives and case worker(s) and I am trying to sort out how I can be refunded my overpayment. Initially, I was told that I simply needed to request that I be issued a check for the credit amount, which I did. Subsequently, when inquiring about the status of said check, I was told that I need to file another motion with the Court in order to be refunded the credit.
Can anyone help to clarify this? If there is a credit in the support account, am I permitted to simply not make payments until the credit is exhausted?
Thanks

