How to Garnish Wages for Child Support
Wage garnishment is performed by your state agency of child support enforcement or the Attorney General's office. The goal of wage garnishment is to guarantee that children receive the financial support that is needed. The child support is removed immediately from the payroll check a parent and mailed to the custodial parent. The earlier the application is processed, the sooner support can be received.
- Telephone the local agency of child support enforcement to file for wage garnishment. You must furnish as much data on the noncustodial parent as you can, including name, address, phone number, Social Security number, race and age. An application fee is commonly needed.
- Go to the hearing. For noncustodial parents that reside out of the state or country, they may be permitted to call in for the hearing.
- Provide the case worker with validation of your revenue and disbursements. The noncustodial parent has to pay the equivalent substantiation. The case worker then ascertains an ordered amount of child support. The sum includes basic monthly support, along with a portion for medical, dental and anything owed.
- Permit the child support case worker to reconcile the new support order into the computer system. The garnishment starts on the following payroll check.
- The garnished child support payment will be deposited into your bank account or mailed to you. The support is split up throughout the payroll checks so that you receive a set amount of money monthly. If the noncustodial parent is compensated each week, then you get weekly payments. If they are paid every two weeks, you receive payments every other calendar week.