Child Support Legal Glossary
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
