How SupportPay Can Help WIth Child Support

The process of securing child support is not always easy. Child support is the largest unpaid debt in our society today. There is $100 billion in unpaid child support running around out there that is due our children. Custodial parents want to know how they can secure child support, and fast! How SupportPay Can Help WIth Child Support?

While there is no magic wand to make that happen, there are steps to help the process along, speed it up, or support you if you aren’t getting paid. The first step in the process is to obtain a court order. If the parents split, then the court order needs to happen right away. If the parents were never married, its a good idea to start the paperwork process even before a baby is born. Use that pregnancy time to secure all the necessary paperwork so that it is ready to go when the child arrives. Child support is not retroactive, so the sooner the better when filling out necessary papers to secure a court order. The purpose of the court order is so that the courts can back you up and take legal measures to ensure that payments are made.

Once the court order is in place, then both parents will know what their legal responsibilities are. Of course at this point it would be great if both parents proved responsible and paid their portion each month out of love and devotion to their child. But we know from too much experience that this is just not reality. This is not a perfect world. It will be the custodial parent’s job to let the courts know if something is not right. If the non-custodial parent is not paying their share of child support, then legal action can be taken. The following are legal procedures that the parent can expect if needed to enforce child support:

• Withhold income/garnish wages
• Deny passports
• Intercept federal payments
• Set liens of property
• Withhold tax refunds
• Report child debts to credit bureaus
• Suspend licenses – drivers, professional, occupational, etc

The easiest way to transfer money between parents is by using www.supportpay.com. This is an online platform that allows the paying parents to communicate and provide for their kids without having to talk about it. But there still may be situations where you are giving your best efforts and the court is doing their part, and still no money is coming in. Non custodial parents who do not want to pay can be very good at hiding and working the system. Is these extreme cases, there are other support services that may be of help. National Child Support and Support Kids are two collection agencies that will work for you. In the midst of the chaos and the legalities, even if your kids aren’t receiving what is due them, remember that they are the important ones here, not the parent who won’t pay. Don’t let the non paying parent suck all your energy away from the goal of raising happy, healthy kids.