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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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