How Do You Enforce Child Support Payments?
If a person who has been ordered to make child support payments fails to do so, then the person entitled to receive the payments can do the following: Step 1 Contact your lawyer to file an appropriate action with the court to enforce the child support order. This action may include income or wage assignment and also contempt of court. Step 2 If you cannot afford an attorney, go to your local courthouse to the family court division and ask for the appropriate forms to enforce child support payments. The clerk may have the forms there, or you may be able to download them off of the court’s website. These forms will need to be filled out in their entirety by you and then filed with the court. The court will provide you with a hearing date and time. Step 3 The filed papers will now need to be served on the other party, either through a private process server or with the local sheriff’s department. If the other party fails to show up at the date and time of the hearing, this can result in c
