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Assistance from Agencies about Child Support Issues

Maricopa County

Family Support Services at Maricopa County Clerk of the Superior Court and the Maricopa County Superior Court's Law Library Resource Center have forms and parent resources you may need relative to child support and other domestic relations cases.
 

FAMILY SUPPORT SERVICES

LAW LIBRARY RESOURCE CENTER

Department of Economic Security - Division of Child Support Services (DCSS)

You can apply for services with DCSS, including locating absent parents, establishing paternity, establishing child support or enforcing an existing order, and find office locations and phone numbers.
 

DIVISION OF CHILD SUPPORT SERVICES
 
About Making Child Support Payments

An obligor (parent making payments) should not make payments directly to an obligee (parent receiving payments) or to any other person other than the Arizona Support Payment Clearinghouse. According to ARS § 46-441, direct payments will not be credited against the support obligation. Instead, payments must be made to the Support Payment Clearinghouse, unless the direct payments were ordered by the court or made based on a written support agreement by the parties.

Title IV-D Cases

 If you or the other parent have applied for services from the DCSS, you will be required to make your payments to the Arizona Centralized State Disbursement Unit (SDU), the "Arizona Support Payment Clearinghouse," which is the collection and disbursement unit for processing child support and maintenance payments. Federal law requires each state to operate a SDU.
 

DIVISION OF CHILD SUPPORT SERVICES

Non IV-D Cases

If you have a child support case in the Superior Court and neither parent has applied for DCSS services, contact your local Clerk of the Superior Court, or in Maricopa County, visit Family Support Services.
 

CLERKS OF THE SUPERIOR COURT

 

FAMILY SUPPORT SERVICES