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Child Support


Vision Statement:

A program that makes a difference by ensuring families receive the child support they need and deserve.


Mission Statement:

  • To make it easy for parents to provide support for their children
  • To serve customers with respect, concern and professionalism
  • To ensure families can depend on their child support payments
  • To work with parents, partners and the community to continually improve the child support program

About the Child Support Enforcement Program

The Florida Department of Revenue has administered the Child Support Enforcement Program since 1994. Department staff provide child support services in all but two Florida counties. The State Attorney’s Office provides services in Miami-Dade County. The Manatee County Clerk of Court provides services in Manatee County.

The federal government, Florida’s courts, local law enforcement, financial institutions, Florida’s employers, and a host of state agencies all play a part in the successful collection and enforcement of child support.

The services we provide include:

  • Proving paternity
  • Getting child support orders
  • Enforcing child support orders
  • Changing child support orders

We do not enforce visitation or custody.

Our services are available even if a parent lives in another state or country. For more information about our services go to Child Support Services.

Facts:

  • We provide child support services to about a million children.
  • We collected over a billion dollars in child support last year.