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Although both parents are entitled to an attorney for a child support petition in Family Court, they are not entitled to have one assigned if they cannot afford one (unless the parent is accused of violating an existing order).

Parents start the child support process by filing an application for services or being referred from Cash Assistance. OCSS will locate the noncustodial parent, serve a summons, and establish parentage. After the child support order is established in Family Court, OCSS monitors, collects, and distributes the payments.

Under New York law, you can request a child support modification if there is a 15% change either parent's income. While typically the court will entertain a child support modification only after at least 3 years has passed since the order was entered, the exception is for a 15% change in income.

New York Child Support Online is a website and mobile app that allows parents to manage their child support cases electronically instead of having to visit an office. You can use it to apply for child support, make payments, view payment history, update contact information, and more.

A custodial parent may file a petition with their local child support agency. That petition will then be forwarded to the New York City Law Department office in the county where the non-custodial parent resides. This matter will then be litigated in the New York City Family Court located in the same borough.

Federal and New York State laws require the local CSE unit to enforce a child support order when the noncustodial parent does not pay. Administrative procedures are actions the CSE unit can take without going to court. The SCU will enforce a child support order automatically through payroll deductions.

There are a few ways to file: Visit the Family Court where your court order was issued and complete a Support Petition for Modification form (also known as form 4-11). Call the Family Court where your child support order was issued and they will mail you the Support Petition for Modification form.

Parties are free to petition the court for an upward or downward modification of child-support as many times as they wish. However, the parties do run the risk that the court will stop taking them seriously and mandate orders which will preclude litigants if they make applications too frequently.

In certain cases of willful nonpayment of child support, the delinquent parent may go to jail for up to six months. Noncustodial parents who owe child support arrears equal to or more than four months of current support may be eligible to have their state-issued licenses suspended through the court process.