Yes. Your local CSEA can help you establish paternity and get a support order, regardless of where the father lives. In some cases, this can even be done if he lives in another country.

Yes. Even though the child's father is providing support, he may change his mind, become disabled, or even die. In most cases, unmarried parents can ensure certain benefits for their children only if paternity has been established. Children who are supported by only one parent often do not have enough money for even basic needs. Every child is entitled to financial support and other resources from both parents.

Yes. Please ask your CSEA to help you. They can register your California support order in Nebraska, which is where the modification will occur. Your order can also be enforced there.

Parents involved in an administrative action with the Office of Recovery Services are served with a Notice of Agency Action. The Notice of Agency Action lists specific information about the case, proposed child support amounts and information about medical insurance coverage. The Notice of Agency Action also lists the options available to each parent after they receive the Notice.

Establishing paternity as soon as possible ensures that a child is entitled to certain legal rights and privileges.

If you don't establish paternity, your child will not be able to get child support or health insurance even after the alleged father gets a job. Proving he is the father as soon as possible makes collecting child support easier later.

Either the mother or the father may complete an application for services and a paternity affidavit. If the father isn't willing to sign a voluntary paternity affidavit, the agency may order DNA testing to prove fatherhood. And if the father lives outside Alaska, the child support agency can ask the other state to help establish paternity.

An Administrative hearing will be scheduled at our agency to establish a child support order and a medical support order. Parties must bring proof of their income year-to date-, copies of their tax returns for the last three years, proof of expenses for day care and health insurance premiums and copies of birth certificates or child support orders for other biological children. This information is necessary to calculate the amount of child support to be ordered..

Children have the right to support from both parents. This is true even when the parents are not married to one another. If the parents of a child were not married when the child was born, they need to establish paternity. To establish paternity is to establish fatherhood--to legally name a child's father. Establishing paternity truly benefits a child. Establishing fatherhood is important to a child's sense of self. Every child should know who his or her father is.

The caseworker will need as much information as possible about the alleged father, the pregnancy and the child. Some of these questions may be personal. Please be assured that we keep the information confidential. We will also want to know whether the alleged father has ever provided financial support, or in any other way acknowledged -- through letters or gifts -- that the child is his.

Yes. Generally, the father has a right to establish his paternity rights. There are times, as provided in statute, when CSSD may not establish paternity.

We do not have any information regarding how to establish paternity when one of the parents is deceased. You will need to contact an Attorney for assistance in establishing paternity. I have established paternity. I need to establish an Order for Child Support, Custody, etc. What do I do? A:You can go to the Self Service Center or go to an office supply, legal form store or a document preparation service to obtain the forms for establishing post paternity orders.

He may ask for scientific paternity testing. A court will examine the results of the paternity test and then decide whether the alleged father is the biological father.

Probably not. Past-due support may accumulate while the father is in jail. But unless he has other assets, such as property or any income such as wages from a work-release program, it is unlikely that support can be collected while he is in jail. Depending on State law, your support order may be modified so that payment is deferred until he is released and working.

When paternity is established, by the proper filing of a Voluntary Declaration of Paternity form, by a court order or by an administrative order, the father has a legal obligation to support his child. Because both parents must support a child, even when they do not live together, the parent without physical custody of the child is required to pay a set amount of monthly support to the parent with physical custody of the child.

You may have already established paternity if you signed a Voluntary Acknowledgement of Paternity at the hospital when the baby was born. If you did not establish paternity at the hospital, then you must do one of the following: a) sign the Voluntary Acknowledgement of Paternity now b) go to court to establish paternity with the Clerk of Circuit Court c) see a Healthcare and Family Services representative. You may wish to contact an attorney to assist you.

The father does have the right to see his children, however child support and child custody/visitation are two separate issues and the father will have to address visitation on his own.

Yes. The county Department of Child Support Services will ask for a genetic test from the court in the other state. Also, a man can sign a Declaration of Paternity voluntarily declaring he is a child’s father even if he lives in another state.