Child support index
Find a specific page or step-by-step instructions within our child support section.
Informational resources
Overview: Child support
Options to get order: What you can file to get a child support order
Guide to child support for incarcerated parents
Child support orders
Making an agreement a child support order
Paying and collecting child support
End or change an Income Withholding Order because support ended
Local child support agency (LCSA) cases
Opening a case or responding to case
- Ask the LCSA to start a child support case
- If the LCSA started a child support case (you received an FL-600)
Asking to change support
- Asking to change child support in an LCSA case
- How to serve the LCSA a Request for Order
- What to expect in an LCSA court hearing
Responding to a LCSA request for a court date
- If you received a Notice of Motion or Order to Show Cause (form FL-680 or 683)
- Respond to government child support request (form FL-680 or FL-683)
Set-asides (cancel an order or judgment)
Overview: Set aside a family law judgment or order
Legal reasons a judge can set aside an order or judgment
- Ask the judge to set aside a spousal or child support order
- Ask the court to set aside a default judgment based on presumed income
If served a Notice to set aside based on presumed income (you received Form FL-640)