LCDJFS Logo

Lorain County Job & Family Services

Fraud Costs All of Us Logo

Vist us on Facebook

Photo of People and businding

Menu

SUPPORT ENFORCMENT

Lorain CSEA and other counties are responsible for enforcing child, spousal, and medical support provisions in child support orders. This includes both, collecting money owed for support and ensuring that ordered health insurance coverage is in place. A case is in default when it is at least one full month’s obligation in arrears. When an obligor does not consistently meet the monthly obligation on a case, they are in default, we may take additional enforcement actions including, but not limited to:

  • Intercepting tax refunds
  • Seizing bank accounts
  • Suspending drivers and professional licenses
  • Placing a lien on property
  • Filing a Contempt motion in court
  • Filing criminal non-support charges
  • Income Withholdings

 

The word "Income" includes, but is not limited to:

  • Personal earnings
  • workers' compensation payments
  • Unemployment compensation benefits
  • Pensions
  • Annuities
  • Allowances
  • Private or governmental retirement benefits
  • Disability or sick pay
  • Insurance proceeds
  • Lottery prize awards
  • Any form of trust fund or endowment
  • Lump-sum payments
  • Assets in a financial institution
  • Any other payment in money

 

Questions regarding any of the above links, please call 440-284-4401 option 3.

Ohio Child Support Calculator - Home Page

END A SUPPORT ORDER

A child support order should end when:

  • The child is 18 and no longer attends an accredited high school fulltime.
  • The child previously reached the age of 18 and has graduated or is no longer attending an accredited high school on a full-time basis.
  • The child reaches the age of 19 unless otherwise noted in a court order.
  • The child’s marriage.
  • The child’s emancipation.
  • The child’s enlistment in the military.
  • The child’s adoption or deportation.
  • Change of legal custody of the child.
  • The obligor’s death.
  • The child’s death.
  • The obligor and obligee are married and reside together with the child.
  • The obligor or obligee is a grandparent and there is a change in the status of the child or child’s parent.

Any questions, please call 440-284-4401 option #3.

SEEK-WORK PROGRAM

Seek Work Program Rule 5101:12-50-17.

What is Seek-work? If unemployed and unable to pay the full child support obligation, an obligor may enroll in the CSEA Job Readiness Program.

 

  • This program requires the obligor to report every month to the agency to indicate that he or she is searching for a job.
  •  If a court or child support enforcement agency has ordered you to seek work effective September 29, 2015, or later, you must register with OhioMeansJobs and complete other work activities specified in your seek work order.
  • Failure to complete these activities will result in non-compliance with your support order. If you are legally prohibited from using a computer, you must contact your local OhioMeansJobs Center to be scheduled for an in-person appointment to get help completing these activities.
  • When the court or the CSEA issues a seek work order to the obligor, the court or CSEA shall include in the order the requirement that the obligor register with "OhioMeansJobs" pursuant to section 3121.03 of the Revised Code.
  • When the court or CSEA has issued a minimum child support obligation in accordance with section 3119.06 of the Revised Code, the CSEA shall not enforce the obligation of the obligor to pay the amount of support due under a support order while the obligor is receiving means-tested public assistance, as described in division (C)(12)(a) of section 3119.01 of the Revised Code, and is complying with any seek work orders issued pursuant to section 3121.03 of the Revised Code

 

Any questions on program; or would like to participate, please call 440-284-4401 ext. #3.

 

 

Child Support