| Child support payments occur only when parents | | | | support and they refuse to pay, the New Mexico |
| are not living with each other. New Mexico Child | | | | Child Support Enforcement Office will provide |
| support is regulated by the state and federal | | | | assistance in collecting payments. The New Mexico |
| agencies across America. Each state in America | | | | Child Support Enforcement Office has several |
| has programs to help custodial and non-custodial | | | | methods in providing assistance in collecting child |
| parents pay, process, and collect past due, child | | | | support payments. The well known method used |
| support payments | | | | to collecting child support payments is income |
| New Mexico child support programs are | | | | withholding, where the child support payments are |
| administered through the child support | | | | automatically withdrawn from the non-custodial |
| enforcement department. As a custodial or | | | | parent's paycheck. This method is used because it |
| non-custodial parent, it is important that you learn | | | | is considered the easiest and most convenient |
| more information about the process of collecting | | | | method for both parents. |
| and receiving New Mexico child support payments. | | | | Other methods are used such as having the |
| When a custodial parent wants to collect child | | | | non-custodial parent's tax refund intercepted, |
| support payments, they must first establish | | | | driver's or professional license revoked, and |
| paternity of the child. When establishing paternity, | | | | passport denial. There can even be liens placed on |
| the court orders will go out for the father to pay | | | | properties or bank accounts if the non-custodial |
| child support. | | | | parents refuses to pay child support. |
| Once the father or mother is placed on child | | | | |