Child Support | Mass.gov

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Child support is money paid by a parent to help with the financial needs of a child when the parents don't live together anymore. The parent who the child lives with most of the time is often called the custodial parent. The other parent is often called the non-custodial parent. Generally, the non-custodial parent pays child support to the custodial parent.

Top tasks for Child Support

Get a child support order

Request overdue child support payments

All other tasks for Child Support

File changes to child support if both parties agree to the change

File to change child support if only one person wants the change

Child Support Guidelines

Receiving child support

Changing a child support order

Child support guidelines: court forms

Massachusetts law about child support

Massachusetts law about modifications of family law judgments and orders

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Supplemental Probate and Family Court Rule 412: Uncontested actions to modify a judgment or order

Guide on the disclosure of confidential information

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