Who can receive child support?
Any parent or person who has legal or physical custody of a child can get help in locating the child’s other (non-custodial) parent, establishing a child’s paternity (legal fatherhood), establishing a child support order, modifying or adjusting a child support order, obtaining health insurance for a child, collecting current child support, and enforcing a child support obligation (collecting past due child support/arrears) by completing an application for services form. Once the completed application is received and processed by our office, the child support process begins. This service is available for both welfare and non-welfare recipients. The more accurate the information provided regarding the non-custodial parent, the more effective our office will be in our efforts to collect child support. An application for services may be obtained on-line at the California Department of Child Support or by contacting our office People who receive public assistance through the Family Assistan
