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Child Support
Child Support is money paid by a parent, who isn’t living with his or her children, to help cover the cost of their care. Child Support helps guarantee that children’s basic needs are met: from food, shelter and clothes to education, transportation and medical expenses.
Holmes County Job and Family Services helps ensure that child support is received by identifying paternity, establishing child support orders and enforcing spousal support.
All Holmes County residents are eligible.
How Are Child Support Orders Issued?
If a child is born out-of-wedlock, either party can call the HCJFS Child Support Enforcement Agency and ask to establish paternity. Once that happens, a case worker can help get a child support order. Child support orders are also often issued with a divorce or dissolution.
How Is the Amount of Support Determined?
- Court or administrative orders determine the legal requirement to pay support and how much that payment will be.
- Cases involving children born out-of-wedlock, or cases involving parents who are married but separated, are handled through Juvenile Court.
- Cases involving divorce are handled through the Court of Domestic Relations.