CourtHelp Legal Glossary

If a person gets public assistance benefits and then later on gets child support, part or all of the public assistance money must be repaid to the government.

Money paid by a parent to another to help support a child or children after a separation.

This is the agency in every state that makes, enforces and changes child support. It also looks for parents that don’t have custody (called "noncustodial parents," or "NCPs"), or to find the person assumed to be the father of a child (called a "putative father," or "PF"). It collects and gives out child support money, and is also known as an "IV-D agency."

A special section in the New York City Family Court located in New York County which handles child support and paternity when the child requiring support receives public assistance. CSET makes and enforces these child support and paternity orders.

The law that determines the amount of child support to be paid.

A national database of information on all people with IV-D (called "4 D") cases and people with non-IV-D orders that were entered or changed on or after October 1, 1998.

See child support enforcement (CSE) agency.

A kind of child support where medical or dental insurance coverage is paid by a parent. Depending on the court order, medical support can be that parent's only financial obligation to the child.

A written objection to an order that was made by a support magistrate. A review of the objection must be made by a judge.

The federal agency responsible for administering the national child support program. A division of the Administration of Children’s Services, it gives those with custody help in getting support, financial and medical, establish paternity, support obligations and enforces court orders.

An order directing payments of child support, spousal (husband or wife) support or both.

An order putting back into place support payments that had been stopped by the court.

A decision by the court that temporarily stops payments of support.

A decision by the court that ends payments of support.

An order or judgment that gives medical support for a child of a parent covered by a group health plan or gives health benefit coverage for the child.

When a support order from one state is filed in a new state with the Clerk of the Court in following the rules of the Uniform Interstate Family Support Act. This allows the child and or supposal support order to be enforced in the new state.

Court-ordered money given by one married person to the other or the ex-spouse.

Payment for housing, food, clothing, and related living expenses.

A part of the Human Resource Administration that collects, accounts for, and pays out money, because of an order of support.

Person who can hear and decide support issues in Family Court

A court order that decides the how much money should be paid for the support of a child or spouse (husband or wife). A support order can include money; health care; payment of debts; or repayment of court costs and attorney fees, interest, and penalties; and other kinds of support.

A request to the court to say who is legally responsible for the support of a child, a spouse or a relative, and how much support should be paid.

An order given during a case that says who should pay support while the case lasts.

The law that gives the court the power to make and force its child and/or spousal support orders in different states.