Establishing Parentage & FAQs

Your Responsibilities

You must report changes that may affect your case. Contact your child support worker if you or the other parent:

  • Applies for public assistance
  • Changes health care providers
  • Changes jobs
  • Changes phone numbers
  • Loses your medical or dental insurance
  • Makes a support payment to the obligee
  • Moves
  • Receives a notice of other court actions regarding support payments
  • Receives a support payment from the obligor

You must also contact your child support worker if the living arrangements of your children change.

  1. When is it necessary to establish parentage?
  2. Why establish parentage?
  3. Your child’s legal parentage must be established before the court will issue an order for support. How is parentage established?
  4. When is it necessary to establish child support orders?
  5. How is a support order established?
  6. How can I change my support order?
  7. How can I go about locating the other parent?
  8. What is income withholding?
  1. What happens to support collected on my case if I receive public assistance?
  2. How do I receive the support collected?
  3. What are my direct deposit choices?
  4. How are payments applied to my case?
  5. How do I receive child support?
  6. How does the child support agency collect arrears?
  7. What is the attorney / applicant relationship?
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