- Illinois assigns responsibility for child enforcement to the DHS and Attorney General. Parents who don't receive their due child support payments can simply report the issue to either agency and enforcement officials will take over from there. In fact, courts and state officials discourage communication and contact between parties that can turn hostile or violent. Illinois government officials are neutral parties tasked with enforcing court orders and use official and professional tones in dealing with people.
- When necessary, child support enforcement officials will seek court orders to allow them to escalate enforcement activities. DHS may ask the courts for an order to suspend a parent's driver's license for failure to pay child support. It can also garnish wages, seize assets and place liens on property with court approval. Custodial parents do not have to involve themselves in these activities.
- Parents -- both custodial and non-custodial -- must comply with DHS and Attorney General requests and directions. Therefore, a parent asking for child support enforcement aid should be prepared to submit documents, answer questions, make statements, disclose finances and do anything else officials request in the course of their duties.
- Illinois officials enforce Illinois judgments across state lines. When non-custodial parents move out of state and try to evade their child support responsibilities, federal laws allow state enforcement agencies to corporate and seek garnishments, court orders and assets seizures wherever a parent may go. As a result, custodial parents due child support do not have to involve themselves in interstate legal battles.
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