The Johnson County Attorney’s Office provides services for parents who wish to obtain or provide support for their children. The Child Support Division determines, on a case-by-case basis, which of the child support services listed below are appropriate:
- Locating a non-custodial parent.
- Enforcing child support orders.
- Enforcing medical support orders.
- Establishing child support and medical support.
- Establishing paternity for children born out of wedlock.
- Enforcing alimony payments.
- Collecting delinquent child support and medical bills.
(This project is funded, in part, under a contract with the Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services).
Kentucky Child Support Interactive Website
Kentucky Child Support Enforcement has an interactive website where you can apply for child support services, estimate a child support obligation, make your child support payments, report address changes, upload court orders and other legal documents, verify payment history and past due child support amounts and request updates on ongoing child support actions.
KY New Hire Reporting Center
1-(800) 817-2262
All public and private employers doing business in Kentucky are required by Federal Law to report each newly hired employee to the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Employers are also required to withhold child support payments from the wages paid to employees with a child support obligation.
Private Wage Withholding Cases (Non-IV-D)
(877) 706-8508
Division of Child Support NIVD Unit
P.O. Box 24828
Lexington, Kentucky 40524-4828
The NIVD Unit receives information on private wage withholding cases from private attorneys and inputs the necessary information to the Kentucky Child Support System for distribution of child support payments. Private wage withholdings do not involve the Johnson County Attorney Child Support Office.
ADDITIONAL LINKS:
Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services
Interactive State Child Support
Anyone who has a child support order, or wants to establish one, can apply for child support enforcement services. If paternity has not been established for your child/children, it will be established prior to a child support obligation being established. Custodial or noncustodial parents can apply for support services. Contact the Johnson County Child Support Division for a Non-Public Assistance application.
There are no fees for completing the application for services. There is a small fee for the case, ($25.00 per year) that is taken from the child support that is collected annually. Child support services are automatically provided to current and former recipients of K-TAP and medical assistance.
The Kentucky Child Support Program refers to a parent who does not have physical custody of a child(ren) as the noncustodial parent (NCP). A noncustodial parent is ordered to provide child and/or medical support for the children.
An application for child support services is required. The application can be obtained from your local child support office, by applying and submitting through the KCSI website (KCSI home page), or you can complete the application on the internet. Once the application obtained from the local child support office or from the internet has been completed, it then has to be either hand-delivered or mailed to your local child support office.
A written request for a review must be submitted to the local child support office handling your case, along with income information such as W2s, tax returns, and pay stubs. Proof of day care expenses and health insurance costs should also be provided with the review request whenever possible. There must be a substantial and continuing change that results in the support obligation going up or down by 15% or more before the local office will file a legal action to change the amount. If a participant on a case requests an increase in child support and it is found that the new child support amount actually qualifies for a decrease, the child support office may then proceed with action to decrease the child support. The same applies when a participant requests a decrease and the case actually qualifies for an increase.
What can the Child Support Enforcement Office do when the noncustodial parent does not pay his/her child support?
There are many enforcement remedies that can be used to enforce and collect a child support obligation. The type of action chosen depends on the circumstances of the case. Some of the remedies that Child Support Enforcement can use to enforce a child support order are:
- Court action resulting in jail time
- Interception of tax refund
- Passport denial
- Liens
- Driver’s, professional/occupational or wildlife (hunting/fishing) license revocation/denial
- Levying financial institution (bank) accounts
- Withholding of unemployment benefits
Visit the Kentucky Child Support Website‘s complete list of Frequently Asked Questions pertaining to child support laws in our state.