Your CSEA can register your support order in Oregon for enforcement. The child support agency in Oregon will then be able to use all the enforcement tools available under its state law to collect your support. Your case may qualify for federal prosecution under the Child Support Recovery Act of 1992 or other federal law. You should discuss this possibility with your CSEA. Ohio has reciprocal agreements with several European countries, most Canadian provinces and certain other foreign countries.

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.

The following information includes frequently asked family law questions. These questions and answers are general in nature and should not be used as specific legal advice for your case. Each case is different and carries its own set of circumstances which must be taken into consideration by competent legal counsel. For specific questions about your case, contact Attorney Donald E. Roach of the Law Office of Jones & Roach.

If you are self-employed you need to take the same action to protect yourself as an employer takes to protect employees, and to use protective equipment on the same basis as employees. Employers also need to take action to protect those who are employed by them to work at home.

Yes, you must provide two years earnings statements indicating your income level. See your lender for more information.

Health and safety law applies to all businesses however small. It covers employees, full or part-time, temporary or permanent; self-employed; young people doing work experience; apprentices; charity workers; mobile workers and home workers. Even if you are self-employed, and do not have employees, you still need to assess health and safety risks which may affect you and others, eg other contractors, office staff, members of the public.

Absolutely, If you have a court order issued to you that your spouse owes you back child support, then we have full rights to search and discover all their hidden assets including existing bank accounts, property, vehicle owner ship, stocks and bonds and any other businesses they may be affiliated to. We then can investigate and also conduct surveillance on your spouse and report to you the time they actually spent with the children.

If your ex-spouse has been ordered to pay either child support or maintenance and fails to do so, you can ask the court to hold your ex-spouse in contempt of court. If the ex-spouse is found to be in contempt, your ex-spouse could be imprisoned. Another available remedy is to garnish his/her wages; the disobedient ex-spouse's employer will deduct money from his/her paycheck and pay you directly.

When children are receiving state assistance, ORS/CSS automatically provides child support services to the family because the amount of grant money the custodial parent receives each month accrues as a debt to the state which you (the non-custodial parent) must repay. In other words, when your children are receiving monthly support in the form of public assistance, the child support you owe for that month must go to the state to offset the debt.

Students living outside Oregon must register by phone. Please see our contact information for Oregon Online phone numbers.

If you are divorced, you may be eligible for retirement benefits based on your ex-spouse's Social Security record, if he or she gets Social Security or is deceased. However, you will need to meet certain conditions: For retirement benefit where your spouse survives, your marriage must have lasted ten years or more; you must usually be currently unmarried; and you must be at least age 62 or older. If your spouse is deceased, the requirements vary.

Your CSEA can explain the two ways this can be done. They may choose to simply send a withholding order directly to an employer anywhere in the country. If needed, they may also choose to register your support order for enforcement, only in the state where he works. The UIFSA law requires the determining of one "Controlling Order." See the Determining a Controlling Order part of the Interstate section for a description of the rules for choosing this order.

Not necessarily. If your ex has income or assets in California, we can probably help regardless of where your ex lives. Many times, even assets and income in other states are reachable by our California attorneys. Although we may advance court costs, you are responsible for paying the actual costs we must pay to process your case.

Send Healthy Steps the income verification that you have. (Example: If you opened a daycare in your home six months ago, send a copy of the ledger showing income and expenses dating from the start of the business.)

The same limits on contributions made to employees' SEP-IRAs also apply to contributions made to a self-employed individual's SEP-IRA. However, special rules apply when figuring out the maximum deductible contribution. See Publication 560 for details on determining the contribution amount. Most SEPs, including the IRS model Form 5305-SEP, require that allocations to all employees' SEP-IRAs be proportional to their salary/wages.

Rule 4-8.4(h) of the Rules Regulating The Florida Bar prohibits a lawyer from wilfully refusing to timely pay a child support obligation. Before a complaint may be filed, the court must first make a finding of willful refusal to pay. This rule should not be used as the primary means for collecting child support, but should be used only after all other available remedies for the collection have been exhausted.

Practically speaking for the time being the answer is "maybe". However, you will not lose out in the long run. Child support orders are not dischargeable in bankruptcy. This means that the child support debt to you will continue even after the bankruptcy. In fact, if your ex gets out from under the crush of debts, s/he may be more likely to pay you. At the very least, you won't be competing with a horde of other creditors for the few dollars that may be available.

Cases involving self-employed parents can be the most challenging to the agency, and often take more time and effort than other cases. If a self-employed parent declines to make voluntary payments or allow automatic income withholding, it may be possible to place liens on payments to the business from regular clients or to collect money directly from the business bank account.