Child Support | Lucas County Children Services

Provides the following services: to ensure that children are supported by their parents, to encourage family responsibility, to reduce the costs of welfare to taxpayers. The agency establishes paternity for a child born to unmarried parents, locates an absent parent responsible for support, enforces an existing court-order-required payment of support, modifies existing support orders, establishes an order for medical insurance coverage. Also obtains withholding orders if the obligor is employed, draws Unemployment Compensation or Worker's Compensation, or has funds available in a financial institution. Uses the Federal and State Offset Programs to collect past-due support, reports the amount of past due support owed by an obligor to a credit reporting agency.

04/01/2026

UW 211 Greater Toledo