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| Every child needs financial and emotional support and every child has the right to support from both parents. Minnesota’s child support program benefits children by enforcing parental responsibility for their support. |
| The Child Support Enforcement Division supervises the child support program. County child support offices administer it by working with parents to establish and enforce support orders. The child support program helps: |
| • families work toward becoming and remaining self-sufficient |
| • parents establish a financial partnership |
| Child support information is classified as private data under the Minnesota Government Data Practices Act. Anyone can ask for public data. |
| • the person who is the subject of the data |
| • others who the law says can see the data |
| • anyone the person who is the subject of the data says, in writing, can see the data. |
| If you want the Department of Human Services (DHS) and the county child support office to give private information concerning your child support case to a third party, such as your current spouse, attorney, relative or friend, you can complete the Authorization for Release of Child Support Information to a Third Party. Fax or mail the authorization to the person you want to release the information. |
| Job Loss and Child Support - During these hard economic times, parents, who have been laid off, may not be able to meet their child support obligations. Help is available. |
| Tax time! The child support agency may be able to collect past-due child support from a parent's state or federal income tax refund or property tax credit even if the noncustodial parent is making consistent payments. |
| The Child Support Publications page offers separate links for publications in Spanish, Hmong and Somali. Each alternate language link lists all child support publications for that language. |
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