California Child Support Blog
Enforcement tools. Statute citations. Real strategies that collect.
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The Arrears Demand Packet: A Filled Example With Interest Running
Unpaid child support in California is not a tab you work out later. Each missed installment is already an enforceable judgment installment, and interest starts the day it was due. The demand packet puts principal, interest, and a payment channel in one place — and it splits what you send the Department of Child Support…
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Build Your Child Support Collection File in One Weekend: The Kit Plus AI Workflow
Everything on this site converges here: a weekend workflow that turns years of frustration into an audited balance, a demand letter in the mail, and an enforcement sequence underway.
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From Order to Collection: The 90-Day Enforcement Campaign Plan
Enforcement succeeds as a sequence, not a gesture. Here is the 90-day campaign that layers the tools in order — each week building the pressure the last one loaded.
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The Demand Letter to a Delinquent Payor: The Document That Precedes the Storm
Before the motions and levies, one letter frames everything: the audited number, the interest running, the tools loaded, and the short window to engage voluntarily. Some payors read it and pay; the rest have been formally warned.
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Negotiating the License Release: Spending Your Leverage for Maximum Return
The suspended license produces the phone call; what you do with the call determines whether the leverage converts to money or evaporates on promises. Release is a transaction — price it like one.
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When He Files to Lower Support: Defending the Order You Fought For
His modification motion is not a formality — an undefended one succeeds by default. The opposition playbook mirrors enforcement: his real income, his real choices, your documentation.
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The Payment Ledger: Ten Minutes a Month That Wins Every Hearing
Every support dispute reduces to one question: what was paid. The parent with the contemporaneous ledger answers it; the parent with memories loses to it.
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The Family Law Facilitator: Free Professional Help in Every Courthouse
Every California superior court staffs an office whose entire job is helping unrepresented parents with support: forms reviewed, procedures explained, calculations run — free, by statute.
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The Request for Order: Filing Your Own Enforcement Motion Without a Lawyer
The RFO is the family court’s all-purpose motion — arrears determination, contempt, seek-work orders, fee awards — and it is built for self-represented parents. One form set, one hearing, real orders.
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Private Child Support Collection Companies: Read the Fee Clause First
Companies promising to collect your support charge 25 to 35 percent of everything recovered — including money DCSS tools would have intercepted free. Know exactly what you are buying before signing years of your children’s support away.
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