Barbara Cattanach
Director

517 Court Street
Room 504
Neillsville, WI 54456

Phone: 715-743-5213
Fax: 715-743-5290

Mission Statement: The Child Support Enforcement program is operated through the cooperative efforts of federal, state and local government. The agencies originated to set and enforce child support and insurance orders, the idea being, if both parents supported the children the burden would not fall upon the tax payers via county aid. The Child Support Agency and the agency attorney do not represent either parent or the children but represent the interests of the state.

The program is designed to:

• Establish paternity on behalf of children whose parents were not married to each other at the time of the child's birth;
• Establish court orders obligating parents to pay child support and provide health care for their children, including health insurance coverage;
• Collect support payments including:
  1. Child Support
  2. Family support (combined support for both the children and the custodial person in a child support case), and
  3. In cases where there is an order to make separate child support and spousal maintenance payments (alimony) to collect both child support and spousal maintenance.
• Take administrative and legal actions necessary to enforce a support order when parents fail to pay the support they have been ordered to pay; and
• Find parents who are not paying support and locate their income and assets, when necessary to establish or enforce a child support order.

The child support program is authorized by federal law, and is operated in accordance with federal and state laws and regulations.