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Parents’ Fair Share —
How can support payments be
What’s This
Parents’ Fair Share is a program that helps
noncustodial parents become self–sufficient made and received?
so they can financially support their children. FSD offers several ways for child support pay-
Services include:
• Parent education
ments to be made and received. Information on
all of these methods may be obtained by calling
About
• Remedial education
one of the telephone numbers below or viewing
the Internet site listed. Child Support?
• Job training and search
If you are ordered to pay child support, you
• Peer support
may:
• Mediation
• Arrange for automatic withdrawal from
• Child support services your checking or savings account;
• Make online support payments at:
mo.smartchildsupport.com;
What information is needed? • Send a check or money order; or
• Send a payment through Western
FSD staff want to provide helpful and courteous Union®.
service. Parents can help by providing as much
information as possible. Information they can If you receive child support, you may:
provide includes: • Arrange for direct deposit of your pay-
ments into your bank account; or
• Legal documents such as birth certificates,
marriage licenses, divorce decrees and • Receive payments on the SecuritE Card,
support payment records; which is a prepaid debit MasterCard®
loaded with your support payments.
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source; Family Support Division
615 Howerton Court
• Complete P.O. Box 2320
financial Jefferson City, MO 65102–2320
information; (573) 751–4301
and TDD: (800) 735–2966 Every child has a right to receive
CSE Help Line: (800) 859–7999
support from both parents even if the
• Any changes
in job,
Internet address: parents are divorced, separated or
www.dss.mo.gov/cse never married. The Family Support
address or
Division helps families get the support
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health care All services provided on a nondiscriminatory basis
coverage. CSE–1 (Rev. 6–06) they need.
Who is eligible for Establishment and
What help is available? Review of Support Orders —
child support services?
FSD establishes child and medical support
The Missouri Family Support Division (FSD) F S D h e l p s f a m i l i e s b y p ro v i d i n g t h e
orders when a support order does not exist. FSD
is a state agency that provides child support following services:
also reviews existing child and medical support
services to:
orders to determine if the orders should be
Location —
changed. When determining the amount of the
• Custodial parents — parents who live with If a parent’s whereabouts is unknown, FSD uses
child support payment, FSD staff use the child
the children. the following resources to help find that parent:
support guidelines established by the Missouri
• Noncustodial parents — parents who do • Division of Motor Vehicle and Driver Supreme Court. The guidelines consider the
not live with the children. Licensing records; income of both parents.
• Division of Employment Security records;
• Custodians — legal guardians of the Enforcement of Support Orders —
children (other than the parents). • State Parent Locator Service, which provides FSD helps families receive their child, medical
information from Missouri tax records, the and spousal support by:
• Adult children — persons between the
Department of Corrections and other states’
ages 18–21. • Withholding income (wages, Workers’
locator resources;
Compensation benefits, unemployment
• Alleged fathers — men whose fatherhood • Federal Parent Locator Service, which compensation benefits, etc.);
is in question. provides information from the Social • Intercepting federal and state income tax
Security Administration, Internal Revenue refunds;
A person does not have to live in Missouri Service, Department of Defense and other
to receive FSD’s services. If children receive federal locator resources; and • Ordering employers to enroll noncustodial
public assistance, FSD parents’ children in health care plans;
• New Hire Reporting, which employers use
will automatically • Reporting noncustodial parents who owe
to report newly hired employees to FSD.
provide services. past–due support to credit bureaus;
If children do not Paternity Establishment — • Filing liens on personal and/or real
receive public FSD can help establish paternity (legal property;
assistance, a fatherhood) for children born to unmarried • Intercepting lottery winnings;
person can parents. If the parents are certain “dad” is the • Suspending licenses (drivers, recreational,
apply for child’s father, all they need to do is sign a form. professional);
services. In Missouri the form is called the Affidavit
Acknowledging Paternity. If there is any doubt • Asking the prosecuting attorney to file civil
who the child’s father is, FSD can arrange for contempt or criminal non–support charges;
and
genetic tests. If the genetic tests show
the man to be the child’s father, • Working with other states to collect support
FSD or the court may when noncustodial parents live outside
enter an order Missouri.
establishing
paternity.
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