Learn the benefits of child support services and enroll

The benefits of child support:

• Child support provides financial stability
• It can help cover basic needs like food, housing, and clothing
• It can be used to pay for medical coverage and uninsured medical costs like copayments and prescriptions
• It can help pay for school-related expenses, tutoring, and extracurricular activities
• Child support leads to better academic success and emotional well-being.

DOR provides child support services for parents who pay support and parents who receive support.

Visit Learn about child support services available from DOR.

Fill out an application if:

• You want the Department of Revenue to start working on a new case to establish parentage (ask the court to determine who is your child's other legal parent) and add their name to the child’s birth certificate.
• You want the Department of Revenue to get, change, or enforce a child support order.
• You have a case where we are collecting child support by income withholding (deducting money from the other parent’s paycheck), but you want full enforcement services.
• You and the other parent in your case have another child in addition to the children in your current case, and you want services to get child support for that child.
• You already have a case, but you have a child with a different parent and want services for that child.
• You previously closed a child support case and want to re-open it.

After you submit your application, the next step in our process will be to create a case and send a letter to you and the other parent explaining the steps we will take on your case.