About Child Support Collections

Posted by Irshad Alam
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Most custodian parents experience serious challenges when trying to collect unpaid financial support for their children from non custodial parents. The state collections agency for child support in your locality has devised several methods that can be of significant help in assisting you to collect either past due or current child support. The most convenient and popular tactic used in collection of child support involves withholding of income. This is widely preferred method of retrieving payments for your child support. There are still other methods that the enforcement agencies uses to enforce child support payments including judicial action garnishing of bank accounts, reporting to the state consumer credit bureau, pass port suspension or denial, licenses revocation and even interception of income sources.

If you are seeking child support collections, the first thing you should do as a custodial parent is to contact your non custodial partner. After that, establish a legal paternity and the court should immediately order the other parent to make payments for child support. Depending with the parent in question, he may opt to abide by the court order or simply ignore them. If he or she agrees to pay, the better for you but in case the payments are not made on time or are not made totally, then you should proceed with child support enforcement.

When you are trying to locate the non custodial parent, it is essential that you provide your state enforcement office for child support with sufficient information and details. This should include their address, social security numbers, family names, friends, residential state and even their work place. After being located, you need to first establish a legal paternity after which an order is issued by the court to collect the payments. If the father fails to sign a paternity acknowledgment on the basis that he is not the biological father, DNA paternity should be done to provide sufficient prove of the paternity. If proved to be the real father, then he must take responsibility and pay the child support. Failure to make the payments accordingly would result in use of appropriate methods by the agency to retrieve the payments.