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Application for child support services

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Welcome to Minnesota's child support program! Child support is money parents pay to their child's other parent or caregiver to support their child. Before completing this application, please read the Understanding Child Support handbook to learn more about the program.

Please provide as much information as possible, including a daytime phone number to help us better serve you. The child support program will use this information to help you collect or pay support. Complete a separate application for each parent with whom you have a child.

Child support services include:

  • Locating parents
  • Establishing paternity and court orders for child support
  • Enforcing child support orders
  • Processing payments made by one parent and sending them to the other parent
  • Reviewing, modifying, and adjusting orders for child support
  • Working with other states to establish and enforce child support orders.

If you have questions about filling out this application, contact your local county child support agency. If you experience technical issues while completing this application, contact the Minnesota Child Support Help Desk.

The child support program will keep secure any information we collect about you from this application. A complete notice of our privacy practices is available online.

The Minnesota child support program asks for demographic information like race, ethnicity, and gender for use in data collection and analysis of differences in program services and outcomes. Collection of this data will aid the program in designing and implementing more effective, inclusive, and equitable practices statewide. In addition, it will help ensure compliance with state and federal civil rights and anti-discrimination laws. 

Please note: Any information entered in this application will be lost if you close your browser before you hit submit. 

Required field

If you checked "Yes" above, a county child support worker will contact you to discuss your concerns upon processing this application.

1. Applicant information

Do you receive:

2. Applicant employment information

Work status

Work status

3. Other parent information

Other parent receives:

4. Other parent employment information

Work status

Work status

If unemployed:

5. Minor children

Provide information about the minor child(ren) living with you whose parent you list in section three.  If you have not established parentage for your child(ren), the child support agency will ask you for more information to help establish parentage.

Click the + icon to add a child

Provide information about the other minor children whose parent is not listed in section three.

6. Child(ren) health care coverage information

Child(ren) health insurance type:

Other parent health insurance for the child(ren):

Is either parent court-ordered to provide:

7. Child care

Complete for each child who has child care expenses.

Click the + icon to add a child

8. Applicant relationship to other parent

What is your relationship to the other parent? (check all that apply)

9. Court order and legal information

Type of order (check all that apply)

10. Support payment information

11. Other information

12. Certification and signatures

By typing my name in the 'Electronic signature' field and clicking the 'Submit' button, I am enrolling in full child support services from Minnesota's child support program available under Title IV-D of the Social Security Act. By submitting this form, I understand:

  • The services available to me and my responsibilities
  • I am authorizing the Minnesota child support program to take legal action, relating to child support on behalf of the child(ren) for which I am applying
  • The Minnesota child support program has discretion to determine the appropriate action to take to establish, enforce, and modify my child support order
  • I must cooperate with the Minnesota child support program to receive services, which may include:
    • providing verbal or written information
    • participating in genetic testing to establish paternity
    • appearing as a witness at court hearings necessary to pursue the requested child support services, and
    • notifying the child support agency of any changes in circumstances that may affect my child support case
  • My failing to cooperate may result in my case being closed
  • The county attorney's office represents only the county and State of Minnesota, and does not represent me, the other parent, the child(ren) or other custodian of the child(ren)
  • I have the right to my own attorney and may hire one at any time
  • The child support program may verify the information I provide on this application through sources authorized by law, contact the other parent to obtain additional information, and use all information obtained to determine what action to take
  • The Minnesota Child Support Payment Center will receive and distribute all child support payments. If I am a parent who receives child support, I authorize the Center to act in my name in endorsing and cashing any drafts, checks, money orders, or other negotiable instruments received by the public authority
  • If I wish to close my child support case, I must tell my county child support agency verbally or in writing. The child support agency can only stop child support services if my child(ren) do not receive public assistance. If I close my case, the child support agency may continue to collect any amounts owed to the state or county due to the receipt of public assistance
  • I am required to return any support amounts I receive from the Minnesota child support program by mistake.

Understanding Child Support handbook

Notice of Privacy Practices