Collecting Child Support
Once Colorado child support is ordered, Colorado law gives you a number of tools, including withholding money from your ex-spouse's income, to help you in collecting child support. The court can also order the payment of health insurance premiums.
How do you collect child support?
It is often difficult to know what causes parents to ignore their financial obligations to their children and the legal obligation imposed by a child support order. But when it happens, there are ways in Colorado to start a legal action to collect your child support payments.
In order to enforce your child support order, you will have to locate the other parent first. If you have no idea where the other parent currently lives or works, it is helpful if you know his or her social security number, phone number, old employers, or new spouse. Use directories, Google, the Department of Motor Vehicles, or even a private investigator to help you search.
There are various enforcement tools used in collecting child support. These include income assignments, wage garnishments, bank account garnishments, and even liens against real estate. The federal government, the state of Colorado, and the military cooperate with parents seeking income assignments. And there are even ways to enforce child support orders involving parents who live in another state.
All of the Bradford forms listed on this page are available to use when collecting child support.
The process of collecting child support necessarily follows from a court order obtained. The result of the proper calculation of child support is going to be the basis of the payment that is to be made by the parent.
Colorado Child Support Forms
This six-page informational document gives a broad explanation of the the Colorado Child Support Guideline detailed in the Colorado Statutes. It defines income and expenses, and discusses how to complete the necessary worksheets.
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Child Support in Colorado
This schedule lists the basic amount of child support needed based on the number of children and income of both parents. This amount is placed on the appropriate worksheet to calculate the final amount of child support for each parent.
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Here we provide some previews of our Colorado Child Support Forms:
Child Support in Colorado
(Revision Date: 1/1/2011)
Child Support Obligations in Colorado
(Revision Date: 1/1/2011)
