Vision Statement:
To enhance the quality of life for children by ensuring they receive the financial and medical support to which they are entitled.

Mission Statement:
Provide comprehensive services to families by locating parents, establishing paternity and support and enforcing parental obligations.

PURPOSE
Garfield/Pitkin County Child Support Enforcement (CSEU) establishes and enforces child support court orders against Non-Custodial Parents (parents who are out of the home) to help pay for the financial and medical support of their children.  Child Support collections eliminate or reduce the need for public assistance and help to repay the public assistance fund.

TYPES OF SERVICES
• Locate Non-Custodial Parents
• Establish Paternity Orders (if necessary)
• Establish Orders for Current Monthly Support to Custodial Parents
• Establish Orders for Past Due Monthly Support to the Public

Assistance Fund
• Establish Orders for Medical Support
• Review and Adjustment of Orders (modifications)
• File actions to another state under the UIFSA statute
• Enforce all of the above Orders

ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA
Garfield/Pitkin County custodial parents receiving public assistance (Colorado Works, TANF, or Medicaid) are automatically eligible for child support enforcement services at no fee.  When custodial parents terminate from public assistance, the child support enforcement unit will continue to collect all current and past due money owed to the custodial parent.  Current child support is collected until the child turns 19 years of age (or the custodial parent asks CSEU to stop); and CSE will continue to collect any money still owed to the Colorado public assistance fund or arrears owed to a custodial parent.

Garfield/Pitkin County custodial parents not receiving public assistance may apply for child support enforcement services to establish and enforce child support orders (whether the order was entered in the State of Colorado or not) for a one-time fee of $20.00.

APPLY/CONTACT
Garfield/Pitkin County Department of Human Services
Child Support Enforcement Unit
195 W. 14th Street
Rifle, CO  81650
(970) 625-5282

For more information you can log onto the website at www.childsupport.state.co.us