How to Enforce a Child Support Order

You filed the application for child support, attended the hearing and a child support order was entered by the judge. But,the other parent says they aren't going to pay and you have yet to receive a support check. What you can do when the supporting parent refuses to live up to his obligations is enforce the order.

Instructions

1. List any dates that you receive payments, how much was paid at that time and if the payment was more or less than what was due. Find the payments you have received, total them all and subtract that amount from the amount you should have received in total since the day the order was put in place.

2. Contact your states's Child Support Enforcement Office. You can contact the office to find out what the limits are for arrears and what steps you need to take to get the ball rolling. Have both the amount you are owed and a copy of your support order ready when you call.

3. Open a case with your child support enforcement office and learn the different ways of forcefully coercing supporting parents into paying child support. These methods include removing the money out of the parent's paycheck automatically before he receives it every payday, suspending the parent's driver's license and other professional licenses and actually putting the parent in jail until he pays back a certain percentage of the arrears he owes.

References

• The Clark County Prosecuting Attorney: How Is the Support Order Enforced?