Child Support Resources

• Overview
• Articles
• Web Resources
• Laws
• Glossary

• Accrual
• ACF
• Action Transmittal
• Adjudication
• Administration for Children and Families (ACF)
• Administrative Offset
• Administrative Procedure
• AEI
• AFDC
• Agent of the Child
• Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC)
• Arrearage
• Assignment of Support Rights
• AT
• Automated Administrative Enforcement of Interstate Cases (AEI)
• Automated Voice Response System (AVR)
• AVR
• Burden of Proof
• C:D
• Case
• Case ID
• Case Initiation
• Case Law
• Case Member
• Cash Concentration and Disbursement "Plus" (CCD+)
• CCA
• CCD+
• CCPA
• CEJ
• Central Registry
• Centralized Collection Unit
• Child Support
• Child Support Enforcement (CSE) Agency
• Child Support Enforcement Network (CSENet)
• Child Support Enforcement Program
• Child Support Pass-Through
• Client
• Common Law
• Complainant
• Complaint
• CONNECT:Direct (C:D)
• Consent Agreement
• Consumer Credit Agencies (CCA)
• Consumer Credit Protection Act (CCPA)
• Continuing Exclusive Jurisdiction
• Continuing Exclusive Jurisdiction (CEJ)
• Cooperation
• Corporate Trade Exchange (CTX)
• Court Order
• CP
• CSE
• CSENet
• CTX
• Custodial Parent
• Custodial Party (CP)
• Custody Order
• DCL
• Decree
• Default
• Default Judgment
• Defendant
• Dependent
• DHHS
• Direct Income Withholding
• Disbursement
• Disclosure Prohibited Notice
• Disestablishment
• Disposable Income
• Disposition
• Distribution
• DOB
• EDI
• EFT
• Electronic Data Interchange (EDI)
• Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT)
• Enforcement
• Enumeration and Verification System (EVS)
• Establishment
• EVS
• External Locate Source
• Family Support Act
• Family Violence (FV) Indicator
• Family Violence Indicator
• FCR
• Federal Case Registry (FCR)
• Federal Employer Identification Number (FEIN)
• Federal Income Tax Offset Program
• Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) Code
• Federal Parent Locator Service (FPLS)
• Federal Tax Refund Offset Program
• Federally assisted Foster Care
• FEIN
• FFCCSOA
• Financial Institution Data Match (FIDM)
• Finding
• FIPS
• FMS
• Foster Care
• FPLS
• FSA
• Full Faith and Credit
• Full Faith and Credit for Child Support Orders Act (FFCCSOA)
• FVI
• Garnishment
• Genetic Testing
• Good Cause
• Guidelines
• HR Bills
• IM
• Immediate Income Withholding
• Immediate Wage Withholding
• Imputed Income
• Income
• Income Withholding
• Information Memorandum (IM)
• Initiating Jurisdiction
• Intercept
• Interstate Cases
• IRS
• IV-A ("Four-A")
• IV-A Case
• IV-D ("Four-D")
• IV-D (Four-D) Child Support Enforcement Program
• IV-D Case
• IV-E
• IV-E Case
• Judgment
• Judicial Remedies
• Jurisdiction
• Legal Father
• Lien
• Litigation
• Locate
• Locate Information
• Long Arm Jurisdiction
• Long Arm Statute
• MAO
• Medicaid Program
• Medical Assistance Only (MAO)
• Medical Support
• Monthly Support Obligation (MSO)
• Motion
• MSFIDM
• MSO
• Multistate Employer
• Multistate Financial Institution Data Match (MSFIDM)
• NACHA
• National Automated Clearing House Association (NACHA)
• National Directory of New Hires
• National Directory of New Hires (NDNH)
• National Personnel Records Center (NPRC)
• NCP
• NDM
• NDNH
• New Hire (NH) Data
• New Hire Reporting
• NH
• Non IV-A Case
• Non IV-D Orders
• Non-custodial Parent (NCP)
• NPRC
• Obligated
• Obligation
• Obligee
• Obligor
• OCSE
• Office of Child Support Enforcement (OCSE)
• Office of Personnel Management (OPM)
• Offset
• Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993 (OBRA '93)
• OPM
• Order
• Order/Notice to Withhold Child Support
• Parentage
• Partner Support
• Passport Denial Program
• Paternity
• Paternity Judgment
• Payee
• Payor
• Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (PRWORA)
• PF
• PIQ
• Plaintiff
• Pleadings
• Policy Interpretation Question (PIQ)
• Presumption of Paternity
• Private Case
• Pro Se
• Proactive Matching
• Probability of Paternity
• Proceeding
• PRWORA
• Public Assistance
• Putative Father (PF)
• Qualified Medical Child Support Order (QMCSO)
• Quarterly Wage (QW) Data
• Quasi-Judicial
• QW
• Recipient
• Reciprocity
• Referral
• Respondent
• Responding Jurisdiction
• Review and Adjustment
• Revised Uniform Reciprocal Enforcement of Support Act (RURESA)
• RURESA
• SCR
• SDNH
• SDU
• Service by Publication
• Service of Process
• SESA
• Show Cause
• Single State Financial Institution Data Match
• SPLS
• Spousal Support
• SSA
• SSN
• Standardized Data Elements
• State Case Registry (SCR)
• State Directory of New Hires
• State Disbursement Unit (SDU)
• State Employment Security Agency (SESA)
• State Parent Locator Services (SPLS)
• State Workforce Agencies (SWAs)
• Statute of Limitations
• Stay
• Subpoena
• Summons
• Support Order
• TANF
• Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF)
• Third Party Liability
• Tribal Organizations
• Tribunal
• Two-State Action
• UI
• UIFSA
• Unclaimed Funds
• Unemployment Insurance (UI) Claim Data
• Uniform Interstate Family Support Act (UIFSA)
• Uniform Reciprocal Enforcement of Support Act (URESA)
• Unreimbursed Public Assistance (UPA)
• UPA
• URESA
• Visitation
• Voluntary Acknowledgment of Paternity
• Wage Assignment
• Wage Attachment
• Wage Withholding