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| administered through the child support | | | | are automatically withdrawn from the |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