Minnesota Information on Automatic Income Withholding - Child Support

The court may find a parent in contempt of court and impose a jail sentence if they have the ability but are not paying support.

Failure to pay can result in the court sentencing you to jail.

Fill out the income withholding order, mark the appropriate boxes, mark you're terminating support, file it with the court, get the order from the judge, and then serve it on the employer by certified mail. That's the way you would terminate the support.

If the child support owed exceeds $10,000 or is overdue by more than two years, the offense is a felony that carries up to a two-year prison sentence.

An income withholding order (IWO) is a document sent to employers to tell them to withhold child support from an employee's wages. The IWO can come from a state, tribal, or territorial agency; a court; an attorney; or an individual.

By law, if the parties do not provide specific details about their income, the court will set child support based on other available evidence, including past work experience and/or testimony of the other parent, or it can set a minimum amount provided for in the law, including calculating monthly income by assuming

Child support withholding is a court-mandated payroll deduction. You will receive a withholding notice if you are required to make child support deductions from an employee's wages. Typically, an employee's disposable income is used to determine the limits of child support deductions.

Income withholding is a deduction of a payment for child support from a parent's income. This order can be from a court or administratively ordered by a child support agency.