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CHILD SUPPORT: Payments, collections and rights

Child support enforcement programs. These are federal, state, and local effort to locate parents, their employers, and/or their assets; establish paternity if necessary; and establish and enforce child support orders. State and local offices provide day to day operation while the federal role is to provide funding, issue policies, ensure that federal requirements are met, and interact with other federal agencies.

What are the steps to collecting support?

Step 1: Establish Paternity

If a child was born out of wedlock, paternity must be established to make a legal determination of who fathered the child. Either parent can request a blood test in contested paternity cases. Caseworkers will help establish paternity for your child.

Step 2: Establish the Obligation

This is the amount of support to be paid by non-custodial parent as determined by state guidelines as well as medical support for your child.

Step 3: Enforcement of the Child Support Order

CSE offices (this link lists the phone number for each state office) help with collecting the money due no matter where the non-custodial parent lives. When a parent has disappeared, it is usually possible for the CSE office to find him/her with the help of state agencies, such as the Department of Motor Vehicles, or the Federal Parent Locator Service. Your caseworker will tell you what information is needed to find an absent parent or his/her employer. Enforcement includes intercepting Federal and State Income Tax refunds, liens on real and personal property; orders to withhold and deliver property; or seizure and sale of property.

Need help collecting child support? Child support collection laws vary by state so this site is designed to help you learn how to use your State's child support collection laws to collect child support payments (possibly with interest). Use our free online arrearage calculator to figure how much back support your are owed then request help from the nations number 1 child support collection agency.

State Child Support Laws
Learn how child support is determined, at what point does the obligation to pay end, guidelines for maintaining medical insurance and how custody and visitation is determined. You'll also be able to see if your state allows garnishment action for unpaid child support.

More Resources
From searching for child support laws, to state requirements to everything you can image about child support issues, please visit child-support-collections.com. Below is a list of some of the resources they provide and its worth your time. Be sure to bookmark it and take notes because its the only source offering everything you need in one place.

Child support collection laws
Free Child Support Calculator
Child Support FAQ - General
Paternity FAQ
Statute of Limitations on Support Payments
Child Support Enforcement
Support after Age of Majority
Military Child Support Laws|
State Enforcement Agencies

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