Child Support Enforcement Program

Region IV Child Support State Web Sites
Alabama	http://www.dhr.state.al.us/
Florida	http://dor.myflorida.com/dor/childsupport/
Georgia	http://ocse.dhr.georgia.gov/
Kentucky	http://chfs.ky.gov/dcbs/dcs/
Mississippi	http://www.mdhs.state.ms.us/cse.html
North Carolina	http://www.dhhs.state.nc.us/dss/cse/index.htm
South Carolina	http://www.state.sc.us/dss/csed/
Tennessee	http://www.state.tn.us/humanserv/cs/cs_main.htm

The Child Support Enforcement (CSE) program is a federal/state partnership which promotes family self-sufficiency by securing regular and timely child support payments. State CSE programs locate parents, establish paternity, establish and enforce support orders, and collect payments.
Welfare reform legislation that President Clinton signed in 1996 provides strong measures for ensuring that children receive the support due them; tough new penalties, such as license revocation and seizure of assets, will be available when child support obligations are not met. The 1996 legislation also recognizes the importance to children of access to their no custodial parent.

Child Support Enforcement services are available automatically for families receiving assistance under the new Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) programs and they are also available to families not receiving TANF who apply. During FY 1999, an estimated $15.5 billion in child support payments was collected. In FY 1998, paternity was established for more than 1.5 million children through the CSE program and voluntary in-hospital acknowledgments, providing vital links between the children and their no custodial parents. Almost 1.1 million new child support orders were established through the program in FY 1998. The Federal government collected a record $1.3 billion in delinquent child support by intercepting income tax refunds of non-paying parents for tax year 1998.