Child Support Enforcement: Orientation and Overview
Summary: This web based training application from the Office of Child Support Enforcement explains how child support orders are established. It also explains the responsibilities of the office of child support enforcement on the state and federal levels.
Concepts Covered: Child Support Enforcement functions, intake, enforcement, and Title IV-D orders
Recommended For: Any parent who is attempting to secure or maintain a child support order.
Establishing Paternity
Summary: This web based training application from the Office of Child Support Enforcement explains how and why paternity is established through the state.
Concepts Covered: Reasons to establish paternity, laws pertaining to paternity, and how paternity is established.
Recommended For: Any unmarried parent who wishes to establish paternity and/or initiate child support collection.
Child Support Enforcement: Locating Parents
Summary: This web based training application from the Office of Child Support Enforcement explains how parents are located for the purpose of establishing and/or enforcing a child support order. The application also includes a "quiz" to help viewers assess their understanding of the concepts covered.
Concepts Covered: State Parent Locator Service (SPLS), Expanded Federal Parent Locator Service (EFPLS)
Recommended For: Any parent who is attempting to secure or maintain a child support order, particularly is the whereabouts of either parent is unknown or unverified.
Child Support Enforcement: Enforcing the Order
Summary: This web based training application from the Office of Child Support Enforcement explains how child support orders are enforced. It also explains the role of automated processes in maintaining child support collection efforts, and innovative techniques that are used to further assist the collection process.
Concepts Covered: Child support collection agencies, administrative enforcement processes, and automated wage withholding
Recommended For: Any parent who is attempting to secure or maintain a child support order.
Child Support Enforcement: The Distribution of Child Support Money
Summary: This web based training application from the Office of Child Support Enforcement explains how child support money is distributed. It also explains the responsibilities of the office of child support enforcement on the state and federal levels. The application also includes a "quiz" to help viewers assess their understanding of the concepts covered.
Concepts Covered: Child support arrears, Title IV-D/public assistance cases, and variables affecting the order of distribution
Recommended For: Any parent who is attempting to secure or maintain a child support order.
Processing Interstate Child Support Cases (UIFSA)
Summary: This web based training application from the Office of Child Support Enforcement explains the history of the is the Uniform Interstate Family Support Act, and explains how interstate child support orders are established and maintained.
Concepts Covered: Interstate child support collection, UIFSA, controlling orders, continuing exclusive jurisdiction
Recommended For: Any parent who is attempting to secure or maintain a child support collection order across state lines.
Child Support Training Developed Especially for Tribes
Summary: This web based training application from the Office of Child Support Enforcement explains how child support orders are established and enforced for Tribes, in particular.
Concepts Covered: Tribal processes, the establishment of child support orders, enforcement, collection, distribution
Recommended For: Any parent who lives in a Tribal system and is attempting to secure or maintain a child support order.
