Description:
The Child Support Enforcement Program is designed to:
Establish paternity on behalf of children whose parents were not married to each other at the time of the child's birth.
Establish court orders obligating parents to pay child support and provide health care for their children, including health insurance coverage;
Collect support payments including:
- Child Support
- Family Support (combined support for both the children and the custodial person in a child support case
- In cases where there is an order to make separate child support and spousal maintenance payments (alimony), to collect both child support and spousal maintenance
- Take administrative and legal actions necessary to enforce a support order when parents fail to pay the support they've been ordered to pay.
- Find parents who are not paying support, and locate their income and assets, when necessary to establish or enforce a child support order.