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| Child Support Services | New Cases |
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| Applying for Child Support Services |
Any parent or person with custody of a child who needs help to establish a child support or medical support obligation or to collect support payments from the noncustodial parent can apply for child support enforcement services.
Families who are currently receiving State assistance, such as Transitional Employment Assistance (TEA) or Foster Care, automatically receive child support enforcement services. Those families are required to cooperate in establishing paternity and collecting support. Child support payments are then used to repay public assistance benefits.
If you are not on public assistance, you may apply for service if:
- You are the child's parent, legal guardian or caretaker, and
- The child for whom you are seeking support is under 18 years of age or is attending high school.
A non-refundable fee of $25 per case is charged to process your application.
Contact your local child support office for information on collecting support for children who are at least 18 years old but have not yet reached their 23rd birthday. |
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| Reporting New Information |
If you have an open case with OCSE now and need to report new information on the noncustodial parent, go to Locating the Noncustodial Parent page under Child Support Enforcement Services from the OCSE Home Page.
If you do not have a case with OCSE but have information on a noncustodial parent, go to Locating the Noncustodial Parent page under Child Support Enforcement Services from the OCSE Homepage. |
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| Submitting an Application |
There are four ways to submit a new child support case application:
- Contact the nearest OCSE Office for instructions
- Request an application by phone: Call 501-682-8398
- Request an application by mail:
Arkansas Office of Child Support Enforcement
P.O. Box 8133, Little Rock, AR 72203
- Download application in PDF format and mail to:
Arkansas Office of Child Support Enforcement
P.O. Box 8133, Little Rock, AR 72203
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You will need to provide as much information and as many documents as you can concerning the noncustodial parent. The most important of these are:
- Noncustodial parents' name, address and current employer
- Social Security number and date of birth
- Names and addresses of family members and friends
- Information on income, banks, assets, property owned
- Certified copies of divorce decrees, separation papers, or support orders
- Birth certificates of children
- Records of child support payment history
- If paternity is an issue, any written statements (letters or notes) in which the alleged father has said or implied he is the father of the child.
The more complete, reliable and accurate the information you provide, the easier it is to collect child support for your children. Your file is not open to the public. The information you supply to OCSE is confidential.
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| Child Support Charts |
| The following information is provided by the Arkansas Judiciary. Administrative Order #10, issued by the Arkansas Supreme Court, lays out the rules for determining net income and instructions on using the Family Support Chart. All links open in new windows. |
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