Child Support Enforcement

Each state has a child support enforcement department that helps parents to collect the child support that they are owed. The child support enforcement department will take the non-custodial parent to court to get a ruling on the issue. If the non-custodial parent still does not pay, the child support enforcement agency has other ways to collect the child support that is owed. They can garnish the wages of the non-custodial parent. They can have their driver's license suspended or revoked until all outstanding child support is collected. They can take away other state licenses such as hunting and fishing licenses. They can collect the non-custodial parents' income tax returns each year until the arrears of child support are collected. In some states, if they still can't collect any support for the custodial parent, they can place the picture of the non-custodial parent on a website for "Deadbeat parents" until all support is paid in full. Using the child support enforcement agency can prove to be very beneficial to the custodial parent. In some states, parents do not have a choice on whether to use the agency or not. Automatically whenever they get a divorce, child support is set up through the agency where the non-custodial parent's wages are garnished, the support is sent to the agency, and then the agency sends the check to the custodial parent.

Fast Facts

  • In 2008, total distributed amounts by the child support enforcement agencies totaled $26.6 billion.
  • In 2008, total amount collected by the child support enforcement agencies was over $32.2 billion.

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