The law requires that child support payments be made to the Department of Revenue (DOR) Child Support Enforcement Division. The DOR then sends the child support to you.
The law also requires that child support be paid by the paying parent's employer from his or her paycheck. This is called income assignment or wage assignment. The Court orders the income assignment.
When you get a child support order at the Probate and Family Court, you fill out and turn in a DOR Child Support Enforcement Services Application Form to the DOR office at the court.
When you get a child support order in a 209A case at a District Court or Boston Municipal Court, you will probably have to send your application to the DOR office. The DOR does not have offices in most District and Boston Municipal Courts.
You can fill out a DOR Child Support Enforcement Services Application before going to court. You can send in the application and ask DOR to handle the child support case for you.
The Department of Revenue (DOR) Child Support Enforcement website has information about what it does about child support.
For more information about the DOR and child support, see The Department of Revenue
Produced by Attorney Jeff Wolf for MassLegalHelp Created January, 2012