State and federal governments have a variety of techniques for enforcing payments of child support. The most common is a wage deduction order, by which an employer sends a portion of the obligor-parent’s wages to a state agency which then sends the money to the parent who has custody of the child.
Beginning in 1994, all new child support orders were required to provide for an automatic deduction from the obligor’s wages. The wage deduction takes effect immediately unless the parties have agreed otherwise or unless a court waives immediate deductions from wages. Even with such a waiver or agreement, the order must provide that a wage deduction will begin without returning to court if the person owing child support falls more than 30 days behind in payments. Wage withholding can be used to collect current support as well as past-due support.
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