Child support can be difficult to collect, even after a court order awards it to the custodial parent. This is a guide about collecting child support.
You can call or visit your county court house, it must be the county where you live. They should have a child support enforcement office located there, in the building. They can help you with all of the steps that need to be taken.
If you are applying for help at your social services department, again in your county of residence, they also can help you with collecting child support from the absent parent.
By Crystal from Zebulon, NC
The custodial parent has not ever gotten support from the noncustodial parent for child who's 9 years old. Also back pay may have already been paid to the noncustodial parent because he lied and said the son lives with him. I already sent papers of custody for the custodial parent in October 2011. I never heard any thing about it. What's next? I need help first.
By Barbara
By HAPPYINHARNED
01/30/2012
If you mean the non-custodial parent has recieved social security back pay. Social security does not pay back pay for dependants but the payment starts after a parent goes to the office and signs a child up. This is done after a person has been apprved and starts drawing social security. If you think this non-custodial parent signed up the child as thier dependant, you need to make an appointment (or just go) with the social security office. You can call and may get some of your questions answered. they are always most helpful. Good Luck.
Can my ex wife ask the courts to withdraw my back child support if my daughter is 21 years old now and they are not needing it? Also, because I am going thru some health and financial issues?
By Michael
By JustPlainJo
08/11/2011
My 77-year-old, sickly hubby still sacrifices a few dollars every month to the child support office, for back support he didn't pay when the mother took him across the country to live. Not only is the son in question 29 now, but the woman who gave him life didn't even raise him. My hubby did. (He got custody within a couple of years.) He never asked for anything because he never needed it, he could work like two men then. We know this woman will not give us back the money or sign whatever form is required to cancel the debt. She gives our son the money instead. It was his & he never got it from her when he was small. This young man now has three children by three different women. He married #3, but a large part of his every paycheck goes to child support for the other two, even the one whose mother took her out of state to avoid losing custody to my son. I'm not happy to see him in this situation, but he did it to himself. I'd rather see him pay his obligations than his children suffer like I did. My own "father" never paid a dime that I knew of. We lived on assistance and scrounging.
My husband was ordered to pay child support and left the country. Can I collect anything from his social security benefits? If so when? Thank you.
By Dimitra from Lilburn, GA
By T&T Grandma
07/29/2010
Depending on the state laws you are in. Many states attach it to tax returns, you can have your license pulled and be jailed for avoiding child support. You need to see a lawyer and/or humane services of your county if your child gets any services of any kind.
My husband's ex owes back child support, around $2500.00. Every time she gets a job and child support comes out she quits.
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