Assistance is available to you at the CSEA.  Please call 330-674-1111 for information about arranging a consultation.  We have a wide range of services which might be applicable to your particular situation.  To be eligible for CSEA services, the child or children must be living in the home of the applicant.  We must deal directly with the child’s custodian.  We cannot process claims from spouses or other family members.

 We help establish paternity, a father-child relationship, using genetic testing.  The identity of the father must be legally established before we can try to collect child support from the child's father.  There can be no child support case until the child is born. 

We can enforce the requirement that medical insurance coverage be provided by one of the parents.

We try to locate the non-custodial parent.  You help us by supplying what information you can about the non-custodial parent, such as name, address, date and place of birth, social security number, and place of employment.  This information can help us with location even if the non-custodial parent is in another state.  Location services can be time-consuming and do not always lead to success.  Your patience will be an important part of the location process.

We can establish and enforce a child support order.  To establish a child support order, we must know where the non-custodial parent lives or works.  

If the non-custodial parent has a job, child support will be withheld from the non-custodial parent’s wages or salary.  To establish withholding, we must know where the non-custodial parent works.  In some cases, monthly support payments may be deducted from the non-custodial parent's bank account.