Enforcement of Support Orders
Once a child support and medical support order is obtained, an Income Withholding Order (Wage Assignment) and National Medical Support Notice is served to the non-custodial parent’s employer. Regular child support payments will then be withheld from the non-custodial parent’s wages.
If a non-custodial parent is late or fails to pay court ordered child support, Child Support Services has many enforcement tools to collect the support including:
- Income Withholding Order
- Suspension of driver license
- Suspension of professional license
- Writ of attachment
- Levy on bank accounts
- Garnishment against personal property
- Liens recorded against real property
- Income tax refund intercept
- Unemployment and State disability intercepts
- Prevent issuance of passport
- Contempt of Court proceeding
- Criminal complaint for failure to provide (includes a possible jail sentence)
- Coordination with other states
