Child Support

The county administers a child support program whose goal is to help families work toward becoming or remaining self-sufficient through improved child support collections. By locating and working with both parents to establish and enforce support orders, the county's child support program helps children receive the financial, medical and child care support they deserve. Child support programs include:

• Enforcement
• Establishment
• Paternity

See also: FAQs for Child Support

Child Support Enforcement

The purpose of this program is to enforce support obligations, collect current and past due support payments and modify existing obligations.

Services include:

• locate absent parents
• enforce the collection of financial, medical and child care support
• adjust orders given by the court based on the cost-of-living index
• work with other states to enforce support when one parent does not live in Minnesota.

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Child Support Establishment

The purpose of this program is to establish a court order for financial, medical and child care support when no other type of support order exists.

Services include:

• locate non-custodial parents
• identify and verify sources of income for non-custodial parents
• establish support obligations, if appropriate.

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Child Support Paternity

The purpose of the paternity program is to help persons who have a child born outside of marriage to establish a legal parent and child relationship.

Services include:

• locate alleged fathers
• coordinate genetic testing
• help parties file a Recognition of Parentage
• adjudicate paternity through the court process
• establish financial obligations for non-custodial parents.

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page last updated - 11/28/2007

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