Total child support collections for the unit have dropped from about $351 million in the 2009 budget year to just over $332 million in the 2012 budget year. The declines are projected to continue ...

CHILD SUPPORT COLLECTION RATES The nine Bay Area counties perform better than the state overall when it comes to collecting current child support. The statewide average is just 41 percent.

Parents who need help collecting child support should notice little difference when services are moved from the district attorney’s office to a new agency, Ventura County’s top prosecutor said ...

With more than $7,000 coming, she figured this private collection firm might be her answer. She signed up.<@SM><@SM><TAB>A year later, she ...

Here’s help for mothers trying to collect child support from absent fathers. A free brochure from the National Women’s Law Center answers questions about getting child support services ...

When I first started in 1992, child support agencies were primarily focused on collecting child support to reimburse the state for those receiving public assistance.

“With Commissioner Doar coming to HRA there has been a strong commitment to child support,” says Frances Pardus-Abbadessa, who heads the city’s Office of Child Support Enforcement (OCSE).

Child Support Collection charges a $95 "application fee." National Child Support charges a $25 "pre-application fee" and an extra $65 if it pursues the case.

Prosecutors increased the rate of child support collections from 47 percent in 2006 to 57 percent in 2010, Levco's final year in office. That's the number that correspondingly came in at 65 ...