The Department of Revenue

DOR/CSE can:

• work with parents to get a child support order;
• work with the Department of Transitional Assistance (DTA) to get a child support order;
• help find the other parent;
• figure out who the father of a child is – “paternity”;
• go to court to get child support orders;
• collect child support and send it to the parent the child lives with;
• review child support orders for possible changes;
• go to court to ask to change child support orders;
• make sure parents pay the child support by:
  • increasing the amount of child support taken from the parent’s paycheck;
  • charging interest on past-due child support;
  • seizing a parent’s property;
  • taking a parent’s tax refund;
  • levying a parent's bank account;
  • taking a parent's driver's license or professional license;
  • reporting overdue child support to credit reporting agencies; and
  • taking a parent to court.

DOR/CSE does not: 

• deal with custody, parenting time, or visitation;
• take either parent’s side in court. Their job is to get the right amount of child support for your child;
• hire private investigators to see if a parent is hiding money;
• make parents obey alimony orders if it is not part of a child support order; or
• make parents pay child support by bringing criminal charges, except in very special situations.