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Child Support A to Z

Intro

Find links to child support topics and terms. 

Widgets

A

Applying for child support services

Arrears debt (past due support)

Assets, levy or seizure of

Automatic recurring withdrawal of payments

B

Basics of child support

Brochures about child support topics

C

Calculating support obligations

Case information updates

Changing a child support order

Child support resources

Closing a child support case

Closing a ReliaCard

Complaint/case dispute process

Contact us

Contempt proceedings

Cost-of-living adjustments (COLA)

Cost-recovery fee

County child support offices directory

Court orders to establish parentage

Credit bureau reporting

D

Debt/arrears (past due support)

DEI Action Toolkit 

Dental, medical unreimbursed, uninsursed expenses

Direct deposit

DNA testing to determine biological father

Dispute resolution and case reviews

Documents in ezDocs

Driver's license suspension

E

Enforcing orders

Establishing court orders for support

Establishing parentage

Estimating support

Employers' Connection

ezDocs

F

Facts about child support in Minnesota

Federal criminal prosecution

Fees - state cost recovery

Fees - federal annual

Federal tax refund offset

Filing a motion to modify child support

Formal disputes and case reviews

Forms library, child support

Full child support services

G

Genetic testing to determine biological father

Guidelines Calculator

Glossary for Minnesota Child Support Online

Guidelines for determining child support

H

Health care coverage

I

Income withholding for support payments

Income withholding-only-services

 

Informational brochures about child support

Interstate cases

Intercept federal tax refunds

Interest on past due child support

J

Jail

Job loss and child support

L

Legal father

License suspension, occupational

License suspension, recreational

Levy of assets

License suspension, drivers

Locating parents

Lottery winnings offset 

M

Medical expenses - unreimbursed and uninsured

Medical support and health care coverage

Military families

Minnesota Access and Visitation Grant

Modify orders, filing motion to

Minnesota Child Support Online

Multiple support obligations

O

Occupational license suspension

Offset - federal tax refunds

Online case and payment information

P

Parentage

Parents' roles and responsibilities

Passport holds

Past due child support

Paternity

Payment information

Payment and case information

PIN to set up secure access to information

Prison

Pro se (filing motions with the court on your own)

R

Recognition of parentage

Recreational license suspension

Resources, child support

ReliaCard, stored value card account

Reports on child support topics

Resolution of disputes and case reviews

S

Safety measures

Seizure of assets

Servicemembers' Civil Relief Act

Starting child support cases

Student grant holds

Stored value card accounts

State child support help desk

State tax refund offset

Suspension, driver's license

Suspension, occupational license

Suspension, recreational license

T

Tax refund offset, federal

Tax refund offset, state

U

Unemployment

Unreimbursed, uninsursed medical, dental expenses

W, X, Y, Z

Warrants, how to cash

Withholding support from income

Withdraws from bank account

Working with other states