How to pay child support with money gram

Paying Child Support

The Child Support team has received many questions regarding how federal stimulus payments will be impacted for customers who owe child support arrears. The following website provided by the U.S. Department of Treasury provides answers to common questions: https://fiscal.treasury.gov/top/faqs-for-the-public-covid-19.html

Most parents pay child support through Income Withholding Orders. If this is not an option, the parent can pay their court ordered support obligation by MoneyGram, mail or online by automatic withdrawal, phone, mobile website, TouchPay or credit card.

Make Payment Online (automatic withdrawal, phone, mobile website or credit card)

A parent can pay via automatic withdrawal, phone (844-324-3856), or credit card by going to https://tn.smartchildsupport.com

Attention: A 2.5% processor fee is applied to all credit/debit card payments made through the Tennessee Child Support Internet Payment Website.

A parent may schedule non-recurring or recurring payments. We encourage parents to take advantage of the recurring payment option in order to save time and ensure support payments are made timely. Important Note: It is the parent’s responsibility to cancel their recurring payments once their obligation has been met.

If a parent has additional questions or needs assistance with making an online payment, they may select the “Contact Us” option on the website and send an e-mail. E-mail requests are monitored closely and answered within 24 hours.  If theparent wishes to speak with someone by phone, they may contact the Child Support Disbursement Unit at (615) 253-4394 (local) or 1-800-838-6911 (toll free).  *If you are calling from a cell phone and have free long distance, please call the local number instead of the toll free number.
 

Parents can use cash to make his/her child support payment by using MoneyGram.

Here's how it works:
1. Find a MoneyGram location. There are over 34,000 U.S. agent locations - moneygram.com/billpaylocations

2. Bring these with you:

• Cash - Enough to make your child support payment, plus the fee of $3.99
• Case Number
• Receive code: 14680

3. Pay the amount and the fee at the cash counter.

More information can be found here.

Child support payments can be made using TouchPay online, through the TouchPay Mobile App or in-person at a TouchPay kiosk in the Tennessee Child Support offices listed below

*In-person cash or credit/debit card payments are accepted at the following Tennessee Child Support offices through TouchPay kiosks(Visa® and MasterCard® accepted).  :

1. Shelby County: 3915 South Mendenhall Rd. Memphis, TN 38115
2. Davidson County 44 Vantage Way, Suite 300 Nashville, TN 37228
3. Hamilton County: Eastgate Town Center 5600 Brainerd Road, Suite D-26 Chattanooga, TN  37411

*The TouchPay Mobile App can be downloaded on any IOS or Android Device:

• IOS: https://apps. apple.com/app/id1549714675
• Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.touchpay.csapp

*A 2.95% fee is applied to all credit/debit card payments (Visa®, MasterCard®, Discover®, and American Express® accepted). For all cash transactions $100 or less, a $3 fee is applied. For cash payments greater than $100, a $2 additional fee is applied per every $100 in payment. Minimum Payment Value: $10; Maximum Payment Value: $9,700. A fee of 2.95% will be added to all PayPal payments.

To learn more about TouchPay’s quick and easy child support payments visit www.gtlfsonlinepay.com.

An Income Withholding Order (IWO) is an order that a court or Child Support Office sends to the non-custodial parent’s employer.  It provides the employer specific information on the amount to withhold from the non-custodial parent’s income to meet the child support obligation.   The child support obligation is withheld automatically by the employer and sent to the State Disbursement Unit for distribution to the custodial parent.   It is the non-custodial parent’s responsibility to send the payment to the State Disbursement Unit (as detailed below) until the Income Withholding Order is put into place by the employer.

If paying by mail, a non-custodial should make their check or money order payable to Tennessee Child Support  and mail it to the following address: 

State Disbursement Unit

P.O. Box 305200

Nashville, TN 37229

Payments mailed to the State Disbursement Unit (SDU) must include the following information to ascertain the payment is applied to the correct child support case.

• Name of the non-custodial parent
• Docket and Court ID Number*
• Social Security Number

*If Docket Number and Court ID Number are not provided, the Tennessee Child Support Enforcement System (TCSES) case number must be provided.

Non-custodial parents should return the payment coupon received from the Department of Human Services (DHS) with their payments, or include the appropriate identifying information mentioned above on their check or money order.  Payments not properly identified cannot be processed.

View Processed Payments

Both the Custodial Parent and Non-Custodial Parent may find a listing of processed payments on-line through the Child Support Payment System at https://apps.tn.gov/tcses/. The site will show the most recent payment information first.  However, the search may be narrowed to payment information for the current month, the last six months, a date range, and/or full payment history.

Please note:  If you enter a date range or choose payment history, the system will display payment information based on the earliest information that can be provided.  The automated system was implemented in January 1996.  The earliest payment information that may be available on this online service is August 1, 2005.  If you had a case that was paid through the clerk’s office prior to October 1, 1999, you must obtain payment information from the clerk for those payments.

If, after selecting date range or payment history, it is felt payment information is not shown, contact  should be made with the Child Support Disbursement Unit at (615) 253-4394 (local) or 1-800-838-6911 (toll free), for assistance.  *If you are calling from a cell phone and have free long distance, please call the local number instead of the toll free number.

The Custodial Parent and Non-Custodial Parent will need their case number or member ID, and their own social security number to access the information.

1.1.4Child Support - How to Pay

We are pleased to offer several ways to pay child support. Select a child support payment option below.

Find a Location

Find MoneyGram

Visit www.MoneyGram.com to find a convenient location

• Over 25,000 U.S. agent locations inside retailers like
  CVS/pharmacy, Advance America, Kroger, Walmart, Smith’s
  and thousands more! A convenience fee of $3.99 will apply.  

Bring these with you:        

• Payment: enough for your bill plus the MoneyGram fee;

   all MoneyGram locations accept cash, some also accept

   PIN Debit cards

• Your Account Number/UPI

• Receive Code: 16506

Complete the MoneyGram form or use the MoneyGram kiosk to complete your transaction.  
Payment processes may vary depending on your location.
Simply ask an associate for help. A transaction limit may apply at certain locations. 

The payment is guaranteed in 2 to 3 days.

You can also use the MoneyGram app or visit start.moneygram.com to set your transaction up in advance of going to the store to pay.

Payments

Make Payments Online - Venmo, PayPal, PayPal Credit, Debit and Credit Cards

We are pleased to now offer a convenient online payment option for child support powered by an independent processor. This is available for both employers and non-custodial parents. Payments for the same UPI/Case Number with different suffixes (A, B, etc.) may be combined 

To Non-Custodial Parents:

• You must provide your name, phone number, social security number, UPI/case number, and payment information. You must also provide a valid e-mail address to receive payment confirmation.

• The following payment types are accepted online: Venmo, PayPal, PayPal Credit, Debit and Credit cards with Visa, MasterCard, or Discover logo.
• There will be a convenience fee of $8.95 per $1,000.00.
   If you need to make a payment over $5,000.00, you will need to make more than one payment. Your financial institution may charge additional fees.

MAKE PAYMENTS ONLINE

To Employers:

• The online payment option allows you to submit regular income withholdings for your employees and also to submit the required $2. 00 Income Withholding Fee. Each payment will be processed separately on the site.

• You must provide your company name, phone number, and a valid e-mail address. You will also need the full name of the employee, employee's social security number, UPI/case number, and the amount withheld.
• The following payment types are accepted online: Venmo, PayPal, PayPal Credit, Debit and Credit cards with Visa, MasterCard, or Discover logo.
• There will be a convenience fee of $8.95 per $1,000.00. 
  If you need to make a payment over $5,000.00, you will need to make more than one payment. Your financial institution may charge additional fees.

Telephone Payment Information

Credit Card Phone Payments:

To pay by phone 24 hours a day 7 days a week, please call 1-855-288-2352 and follow the instructions. You will need to provide the non-custodial parent's name, social security number, UPI (case number) and payment information.

Visa, MasterCard and Discover cards are accepted. There is a convenience fee of $8.95 per $1,000.00. If you need to pay an amount over $5,000.00, you will need to make more than one payment.  The convenience fee applies to each payment made. Payments for the same UPI/Case Number with different suffixes (A, B, etc.) may be combined. Your financial institution may charge additional fees.

Mail-In Payment Information

Child support payments (money orders, cashier's checks, or business checks) submitted by mail should continue to be mailed to the State Collection and Disbursement Unit (SCaDU) post office box:

NOTE: Payments sent via delivery service or any method requiring a signature must be sent to the physical location listed below instead of the PO Box:

SCaDU
PO Box 98950
Las Vegas, NV 89193-8950

All payments should be payable to the "State Collection and Disbursement Unit" (SCaDU) and must include the following information:

• Name (first, middle, last) of person responsible for paying child support.
• Social Security Number of person responsible for paying child support.
• Child support case number (UPI)

NOTE: Payments for the same UPI/Case Number with different suffixes (A, B, etc.) may be combined.

Child Support Center of Southern Nevada
Greystone Building
1900 East Flamingo Road, Suite 136
Las Vegas, NV 89119

Information for Employers - Please do not include the required $2.00 fee amount with the regular child support payment; the $2.00 fee is a separate payment to the Nevada State Treasurer and must be mailed to a separate address. Withholding note for Employers for $2.00 fee information.

Also on the Premises:

• CLARK COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY FAMILY SUPPORT
• CLARK COUNTY CHILD SUPPORT COURT

EFT Payments

Other Information

Income Withholding for Child Support, Bail Payments & Disclaimer to Non-Custodial Parents and Employers

Income withholding from paychecks is required by law for most child support cases. Make a web-based payment when the court has not ordered income withholding, or if you need to supplement existing income withholding payments. Existing income withholding orders cannot be terminated and replaced with web-based payments. Web-based payments will not prevent the implementation of an income withholding order. 

Bail payments for individuals in police custody MUST be coordinated with the enforcing authority and CANNOT be made online or by phone.  

DISCLAIMER to Non-Custodial Parents and Employers:

The Division of Welfare and Supportive Services (DWSS) doe snot endorse or guarantee the products, information or recommendations provided by linked sites and is not liable for any failure of products or services advertised on those sites. Third party vendors are required to comply with contract provisions to forward payments to DWSS, but whether or not the vendor properly delivers the child support payment is your responsibility. Also, third party websites may have a privacy policy different from that of DWSS and may provide more or less security than the DWSS website.

How to transfer child support directly to the child, including to his bank account? - Lawyer in Samara and Moscow

The child has the right to receive maintenance from his parents and other family members (clause 1, article 60 of the RF IC). The amounts due to the child, in particular as alimony, are at the disposal of the parents (persons replacing them) and are spent by them on the maintenance, upbringing and education of the child. At the same time, the court, at the request of a parent who is obliged to pay alimony for minor children, has the right to make a decision on the transfer of no more than 50% of the amount of alimony payable to accounts opened in the name of minor children in banks (clause 2, article 60 of the RF IC; p. 15 Decisions of the Plenum of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation dated 25.10.1996 No. 9).

The main reason for transferring maintenance directly to the child's account is usually the fear of the transferring parent that the receiving parent may use the maintenance amounts for other purposes.

Target spending of alimony should be understood as the direction of funds for the maintenance, upbringing, education of the child and the preservation of the material level, which allows for its full development (clause 1, section III of the Review of judicial practice, approved by the Presidium of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation on May 13, 2015).

Alimony can be transferred not only on the basis of a court decision, but also on the basis of a notary agreement. In such an agreement, parents have the right to establish that part of the alimony (or the entire amount) is transferred directly to the child into his account.

Please note!

The transfer of funds to a child, including to an account, without a court decision or without a notarized agreement on the payment of alimony is not considered alimony and can be regarded as a gift of money to a child.

If you want to transfer child support directly to the child, we recommend that you follow the following algorithm.

Step 1. Discuss with the other parent the possibility of signing a notarized child support agreement or modifying it (if the agreement is already in place) to include a condition that a portion of the child support be transferred to the child's account.

If the parents have agreed among themselves, they should apply to a notary to certify the agreement on the payment of alimony (art. 99 - 101 RF IC). In a notarial agreement, parents can establish that part of the alimony is placed at the disposal of the second parent (for the maintenance of the child), and part is transferred directly to the child's account.

The agreement can be changed at any time by mutual agreement of the parties, including if the parents agreed to transfer part of the amount of alimony to the child's account later (clause 2, article 101 of the RF IC).

Step 2. In case of failure to reach an agreement to conclude or change a notarial agreement on the payment of alimony, apply to the court.

A request to change the agreement on the payment of alimony can be filed with the court only after receiving the other parent's refusal to propose to change the agreement or not receiving a response within 30 days, unless a different period is specified in the agreement itself (clause 1, article 101 of the UK Russian Federation; Article 452 of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation).

If alimony was collected on the basis of a court decision or order, then the alimony payer submits an application to change the order of execution of the decision to the court that made the decision to collect alimony (Article 203 of the Code of Civil Procedure of the Russian Federation; clause 15 of the Resolution of the Plenum of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation N 9).

Keep in mind that a court decision on the transfer of part of the alimony to the accounts of minors is possible, in particular, in the event of improper performance by the parent receiving alimony of the obligation to spend it on the maintenance, upbringing and education of the child and preserving with this method of execution of the court decision the level of material support of the child, sufficient for its full development.

In this regard, a parent who insists on transferring a part of the amount of alimony to the child's account must prove that the other parent is spending the alimony inappropriately (Articles 56, 57 of the Code of Civil Procedure of the Russian Federation).

Please note!

If a parent pays child support, he is entitled to receive a tax deduction for personal income tax for children (clause 4, clause 1, article 218 of the Tax Code of the Russian Federation).

Remember, at any stage of a family dispute, the Legal Center for Family Affairs of Attorney Anatoly Antonov is ready to provide you with legal support. Call us by phone in Samara + 7 (846) 212-99-71 right now and sign up for a consultation at a convenient time for you.

Lawyer Anatoly Antonov Family Affairs Center provides the following legal services on issues of paying child support for minor children, as well as other family members:

• legal advice;
• drawing up an agreement on the payment of alimony;
• drawing up a statement of claim for the issuance of a court order;
• preparation of a statement of claim for the recovery of alimony and attachments to it, as well as filing it with the court;
• preparation of objections regarding claims for the recovery of alimony, for a reduction in the amount of alimony;
• familiarization with the materials of the case on the recovery of alimony, on the reduction of the amount of alimony;
• participation in court hearings (possibly without the presence of the principal) for the recovery of alimony;
• obtaining a court decision on the recovery of alimony;
• appeal against the decision of the court in a higher instance.

The original article is taken from the website of the Electronic Journal "Azbuka Prava"

Relevance date of the material: 01/06/2016

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“Want to get money from me”: how parents collect alimony from children

“Father doesn’t care that I have a baby” his maintenance - the man lost his part-time job and lived only on a small pension.

“It was strange when the summons came to me. I called my father, although we didn’t communicate much, since he left my mother when I was 14 years old. As far as I know, he did not pay alimony himself, sometimes he sent a penny, which, obviously, would not be enough to feed the child. Now he wants to get money from me,” the girl was indignant in a conversation with Gazeta.Ru.

The parent explained to Anastasia that he was in a distressed condition - he literally did not have enough to live on. The man offered two options: for the daughter to send him a fixed amount every month on her own, or, in case of refusal, he will continue to collect alimony from her through the court.

“I was outraged by all this. A person who communicates with me almost once a year asks me to provide for him. And it doesn't matter that I have a baby who also needs to be fed. In the end, I decided to go all the way and hired a lawyer,” she explained.

The girl's lawyer first tried to explain to her father that Anastasia had no way to help him, but he replied that he "doesn't care". Then the collection of evidence began that Anastasia's father had not helped or communicated with her since her teenage years.

“The process dragged on because my mother died and, in fact, my word was against his. The court session was already scheduled - for the first time they lost. I was assigned to pay him a penny like 4% of earnings, but this has already become a matter of principle, ”said the Muscovite.

As a result, after filing several appeals, Anastasia and the lawyer managed to prove that her father was bankrupt as a parent, and payments in his favor were cancelled.

“We didn’t have love with them”

41-year-old Ekaterina from Murmansk, along with her brother and sister, got into a similar story. Their parents did not take care of their children all their childhood - they were either left alone or sat with relatives.

“You yourself understand that as such, we didn’t have any kind of love with them, therefore, as soon as we grew up, we immediately dispersed around the country, where we began to build our own lives. Now my parents are very old. Only the younger sister helps them, because, one way or another, she believes that she owes them, ”the woman said.

Just a couple of months ago, Ekaterina's mother called and said that she and her father were going to file for alimony, since all children were allegedly obliged to help them.

“We phoned my brother and sister to discuss this application. We, the elders, were offended by our parents and were not going to pay them, because at one time they did not help us, we survived as best we could. The youngest decided to talk to them, but they remained adamant,” she said.

In the course of the proceedings, the children failed to prove that their parents did not take good care of them, and the court ordered everyone to pay 7% of their earnings until the end of their relatives' lives.

“We tried to challenge this decision, but they [the parents] are all the way to help. We discussed it with my brother and decided to put up with it, because nothing can be done, ”concluded Ekaterina.

“They charge for medicines, nurses and cleaners”

Parents can award alimony from their children in almost all cases, unless it is proved that at one time they did not properly fulfill their parental duties: maintenance of the child, payment of alimony, etc. further, lawyer Alexander Redkin explained.

“At the same time, the law clearly states that this can only be the basis for refusing child support, that is, not a 100% reason.

Guaranteed refusal promises only in case of deprivation of parental rights,” he said.

A disabled, needy parent has every right to file for alimony in respect of their adult child, since they are required by law to support their parents, confirmed the head of the family law practice of BGP Litigation, president of the Lawyers Help Children Charitable Foundation Victoria Dergunova.

“The need is checked by the courts in the same way - if a parent has no other source of income other than a pension, then he is needy, according to judicial practice. At the same time, you need to understand that in this case, all adult children are involved in payment - not only the one to whom the parent sued.

The only reason that exempts from the obligation to support his parent is the improper performance of his parental duties. The proof in this case will be administrative or criminal liability for non-payment of alimony, ”the lawyer emphasized.

As Redkin noted, sometimes a parent who is left alone with a child prefers not to apply for alimony in order to protect the children for the future - allegedly, since the parent did not pay child support, he will not apply for them himself. But it's not.

“Many mothers think: if they don’t file alimony, they don’t start enforcement proceedings, that is, there is no evidence that she applied for alimony, then in the future, in the case of a demand for payment from children by the father, she will be able to justify this fact. However, it doesn’t matter whether the parent paid child support or not (if they were not assigned to him) - almost always the court will collect money from the child for maintenance, ”he said.

Dergunova, in turn, gave several examples from the practice of such cases. So, some parents who did not communicate with their children when they were small to receive alimony, say that the former spouses did not allow them to see the child.

“For example, we have very elderly parents who collect alimony to pay for medicines, nurses, cleaners. There is such an example when a child hired a nurse, and then, at her suggestion, the parent filed a claim for alimony and the court satisfied him.

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