By Child-Support.com Staff – Last updated
In order to have a child support order enforced in Kansas, a parent or guardian first has to apply for child support services using the following application.
How to File a Complaint
If you are seeking to have a child support order enforced, you must fill out an application, sign it and bring it in to your local child support office.
How to Fill In
Step 1: Download the application
Step 2: On the first page enter the non-custodial parent’s name, your name, your social secuirty number and your date of birth and then sign it.
Step 3: On the second page, enter the following information about yourself:
- Custodial Parent/Guardian Full Name
- SSN
- Your date of birth
- Sex
- Mailing address
- Telephone numbers
- Name and phone of emergency contact
- Have you and/or the child/ren received Public Assistance (cash or TANF) in the State of Kansas?
- Have you received Public Assistance (cash or TANF) in another state?
- If yes, list all state(s) and dates.
- What is your relationship to the child/ren
Step 4: Enter the following information about each child for whom you are seeking support:
- Child’s Full Name
- Sex
- SSN
- Birth Date
- Noncustodial Parent Name(s)
- Date of Birth
- Child’s Birthplace City and State
- Name of Father listed on Birth Certificate
Step 5: Enter the following information about existing child support orders and processes:
- Is there a child support or medical order(s) for the child/ren?
- Name of person who is ordered to provide current or medical support:
- Court Case Number
- County
- State
- Child
- If unable to provide a court case number, please provide county, state and date of court order (Month/Year):
- Have you taken legal action to enforce payment?
- If yes, type of action
- Who filed the action?
- Result of action?
- Do you have an attorney?
- Name and address of your attorney?
- If there is no order already established, do you think the other person will be agreeable to signing a voluntary order?
Step 6: Enter the following information about the non-custodial parent:
- Noncustodial parent’s name
- Sex
- SSN
- Date of birth
- Approx age
- Has the Noncustodial parent ever used a different SSN?
- Place of birth
- Current address
- Last known mailing and physical address
- Telephone numbers
- What is the Noncustodial parent’s race?
- Physical description of Noncustodial parent including
Height, Weight, Eye color, Hair color - Tattoos, scars and other physical traits
- Name of the Noncustodial Parent’s mother
- Noncustodial Parent’s father
- Where does the Noncustodial Parent work
- Employer address
- Telephone number
- Type of business
- Name of bank where Noncustodial Parent has a checking or savings account
- Where is the last place you knew the Noncustodial Parent worked?
- Employer name
- Address
- Telephone number
- Date of employment
- Is the Noncustodial Parent on Active Duty in the Military?
- If yes, Branch of Service
- Rank
- Years of Service
- Duty Station/Unit
- Is the Noncustodial Parent in the National Guard or Reserves? Yes No Unknown Previously
- Service
- Rank
- Date of Service
- Does the Noncustodial Parent have an attorney?
- Name and address of attorney
- Has the Noncustodial Parent ever filed Bankruptcy
- Does the Noncustodial Parent have a driver’s license?
- Reason for the Noncustodial Parent’s absence
- Protection From Abuse Order?
- Restraining Order?
- Deceased?
- Has the Noncustodial Parent ever belonged to a Labor Union or Professional Group?
- Has the Noncustodial Parent ever been arrested, put on probation, sent to prison or paroled?
- Has the Noncustodial Parent ever attended a college, university or vocational school?
- Has the Noncustodial Parent of your child ever provided support for you or your child?
- When did the Noncustodial Parent provide support
- Where did you live at the time the Noncustodial Parent provided support?
- Where did the Noncustodial Parent live at the time support was provided?
- Has the Noncustodial Parent ever made a promise in writing to support your child?
- Does the Noncustodial Parent have any other type of income?
- If the Noncustodial Parent is deceased, do you receive Social Security benefits or other insurance benefits
for the child? - If the Noncustodial Parent receives disability payments from the Social Security Administration, does the child receive Social Security benefits from the Noncustodial Parent’s disability?
- Does the Noncustodial Parent own property (Examples: car, truck, motorcycle, boat, camper, trailer, house, farm, rental property, land, business, tools, equipment, etc.)?
- Does the Noncustodial Parent have any other natural or adopted child/ren?
- Do any children live with non-custodial parent?
- Is the Noncustodial Parent ordered to pay child support for any other child/ren?
- List friends and family members the Noncustodial Parent is most likely to keep in touch with
- Has the Noncustodial Parent ever received Public Assistance?
- In an emergency, how do you get in touch with the Noncustodial Parent?
- Who provides medical insurance for the child/ren?
- What is his or her relationship to the child/ren?
- Medical Coverage Details
- Do any of your child/ren listed have special medical needs?
- List all the medical expenses resulting from the pregnancy and/or the birth of your child/ren that you have actually paid. (Receipts of payments must be provided)
- How were the medical expenses paid?
Step 7: Enter the following information about your marital status:
- What is your current marital status?
- List information about all marriages
Step 8: Enter information about child support received.
Step 9: If you don’t need paternity services, go to page 12 and read the legal rights and duties. Sign on page 14.
Step 10: Send your signed application with copies of any child support orders or other relevant documentation to your local child support office.
What CSS Can Do
CSS can take a number of different actions to enforce cild support orders including the following:
- income withholding order
- passport denial
- recreational license denial
- driver’s license restriction
- Consumer Credit Bureau reporting
- tax refund intercept
- contempt
Contact CSS:
You can call 1 (888) 757-2445 or contact your local child support office:
