Support Enforcement Services are available for applicants who receive:
- AFDC
- Foster Care cases, also known as IV-E cases
- Non-IV-E Medicaid, and
- Non-AFDC Medicaid
The same services are also available to applicants who do not receive any of these forms of assistance. There is a one-time application fee of $25.00.
IV-D Program Functions:
There are five (5) major program services in child support enforcement:
- Absent parent location (also known as Parent Locate)
- Establishment of paternity
- Establishment of support obligation, including medical support obligations
- Collection and distribution of support payments, including spousal support in conjunction with child support order
- Enforcement of support obligation, including medical and spousal
Louisiana has new license suspension statutes (La. R.S 9:315.32 et seq.) that permit suspension and/or revocation of various professional, recreational and driver’s licenses as a tool for collecting past due child support.
Other remedies available to District Attorneys for collection of child support include:
- Court ordered blood testing for alleged parent
- Income assignment in both interstate and intrastate cases
- Federal income tax refund offsets
- Reporting delinquency information to credit bureaus
- Louisiana Lottery offset against winnings for child support arrears
- Immediate income assignment orders are required on all new or modified orders for child support. Income can be assigned from worker’s compensation benefits and unemployment benefits
Support Enforcement Contact Information:
| BIENVILLE PARISH | CLAIBORNE PARISH | JACKSON PARISH |
| 1779 Daniel Street | 509 South Main Street | 411 Polk Avenue |
| Suite A | ||
| Arcadia, Louisiana 71001 | Homer, Louisiana 71040 | Jonesboro, Louisiana 71251 |
| Phone: (318) 263-7409 | Phone: (318) 927-6937 | Phone: (318) 259-2512 |
| Fax: (318) 263-7443 | Fax: (318) 927-6979 | Fax: (318) 259-2572 |
If you cannot keep an appointment, please notify our office immediately.
HOURS OF OPERATION:
8:30 A.M. – 4:30 P.M.
Monday through Friday
If you have a scheduled appointment, bring this information with you to the appointment, if available:
- Name of the employer of the absent parent
- Home or employment address of the absent parent
- Your social security number and the social security number of your child(ren)
- The absent parent’s social security number
- Marriage license
- Certified divorce/separation documents and the child support orders
- Birth Certificate of child(ren)
- Last three (3) paycheck stubs of yours and absent parent
- Medicaid card(s)
If you were not married to the absent parent of the child(ren), please bring the following, if available:
- Photographs of the absent parent with the child(ren)
- Letters or cards from the absent parent mentioning or making reference to child(ren)
- Names, addresses and telephone numbers of persons who have knowledge of the alleged absent parent’s relationship with the child(ren)
- Names, addresses and telephone numbers of anyone who has knowledge of your relationship with the absent parent
