Thursday, February 27, 2014

ALASKA Part 77

What is the difference between child support orders issued by the court and child support orders issued by CSSD?


Both the court and the Child Support Service Division (CSSD) have the authority to issue child support orders.  However, the child support orders come about in different ways.  The court must issue a child support order when it decides the custody and visitation arrangement for a child in a case involving divorce, dissolution, or custody between unmarried parents.  The CSSD issues an order when one parent requests child support because the parents have split up and the parent taking care of the child(ren) wants the other parent to pay support for the child.  Sometimes a parent will have a CSSD support order and then file a custody case in court later.  If the court issues a child support order that is different from the CSSD order, the court’s child support order takes priority and replaces the CSSD order.

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