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Nonassistance Support Enforcement Services

English translation: Support Enforcement Services for people who are not receiving public assistance for their children

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English term or phrase:Nonassistance Support Enforcement Services
Selected answer:Support Enforcement Services for people who are not receiving public assistance for their children
Entered by: Maria Dimitrova

05:45 Mar 2, 2021
English language (monolingual) [PRO]
Law/Patents - Law (general) / Family law
English term or phrase: Nonassistance Support Enforcement Services
I have an application for Nonassistance Support Enforcement Services to translate and I have difficulty finding information how exactly this procedure works and what the prerequisites for starting such a procedure are. I understand that this is a service offered by the Division of Child Support at the Department of Social and Health Services of the State of Washington, but I don't understand the following:

- Is this an enforcement service to make the other noncustodial parent pay child support (e.g., if they fail to pay it)? Or is it, rather, a service that actually pays child support to the custodial parent (e.g. from state funds)?
- What exactly would "nonassistance support" mean? Does it mean "support that is not social assistance"?

Any explanation on how this works would be helpful.
Maria Dimitrova
Bulgaria
Local time: 08:13
Support Enforcement Services for people who are not receiving public assistance for their children
Explanation:
https://www.dshs.wa.gov/sites/default/files/forms/pdf/18-078...

If you look at the first page of the above document, you will see in the "Declaration" section, the applicant has to declare in item 5 that "I am not receiving public assistance funds for the children."

Also,
The CSE program has different rules for assistance families (e.g., those receiving
cash benefits under the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program; TANF) and non-assistance families.
https://www.everycrsreport.com/reports/RS22380.html

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Note added at 19 hrs (2021-03-03 01:38:06 GMT)
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"Support Enforcement" is an action to find the noncustodial parent and make him/her pay child support that the court has ordered.
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Kiet Bach
United States
Local time: 22:13
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SUMMARY OF ALL EXPLANATIONS PROVIDED
4 +2Support Enforcement Services for people who are not receiving public assistance for their children
Kiet Bach
3 -1alternative maintenance and support measures
Lisa Rosengard


  

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14 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +2
nonassistance support enforcement services
Support Enforcement Services for people who are not receiving public assistance for their children


Explanation:
https://www.dshs.wa.gov/sites/default/files/forms/pdf/18-078...

If you look at the first page of the above document, you will see in the "Declaration" section, the applicant has to declare in item 5 that "I am not receiving public assistance funds for the children."

Also,
The CSE program has different rules for assistance families (e.g., those receiving
cash benefits under the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program; TANF) and non-assistance families.
https://www.everycrsreport.com/reports/RS22380.html

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Note added at 19 hrs (2021-03-03 01:38:06 GMT)
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"Support Enforcement" is an action to find the noncustodial parent and make him/her pay child support that the court has ordered.

Kiet Bach
United States
Local time: 22:13
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in ChineseChinese
PRO pts in category: 11

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  philgoddard: I agree about "nonassistance", but you haven't answered the asker's question about support enforcement.
4 hrs
  -> Thank you! I have added a note.
agree  AllegroTrans: Yes, with added note
1 day 15 hrs
  -> Thank you!
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2 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): -1
nonassistance support enforcement services
alternative maintenance and support measures


Explanation:
There are services and agencies who work with child protection, offering solutions to maintenance and support methods after finding the existence of negligence or necessity, and after locating where the real needs lie. In one explanatory document I found the following information:
"Non-assistance support enforcement information: The two partners to your support order are the noncustodial parent and the custodial parent or physical custodian. The non-custodian parent is the person who must pay support. The custodial parent or the physical custodian is the person with whom the children live. Both the custodial and non-custodial parents may be required to provide health insurance coverage or medical support for children."

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Note added at 2 days 8 hrs (2021-03-04 13:45:50 GMT)
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Since the question posed is of 'non-assistance support enforcement services' I suggested 'alternative support' which is without assistance.
There is a child maintenance service within the government department alongside the department of work and pensions. I saw this to be relevant to the question about non-assistance support for children, contrary to what 'AllegroTrans' has to say in its usual repeated criticisms and continuous negativity. Take note of the web link:
https://childmaintenanceservice.direct.gov.uk/onlinerevive/p...

I apologize if my answer is inappropriate.


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Note added at 2 days 20 hrs (2021-03-05 01:47:44 GMT)
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The enforcement is in connection with the non-custodial (absent) parent who must pay financial support or a maintenance allowance. This can be a problem connected with children whose parents are divorced.
(An alternative is one or another of possible choices or courses of action.
An alternative is a situation which presents a choice between two mutually exclusive possibilities.)


Example sentence(s):
  • Other information explains a system which includes agencies who work with objectives to provide help. "Child support agencies help children get the financial support they need by localizing absent parents and establishing paternity."
  • "They offer child support orders and enforce support payments. Without assistance from agencies, many single parent homes would not receive the child support payments required for basic necessities."

    https://www.dshs.wa.gov/sites/default/files/ESA/dcs/documents/16-072.pdf
    https://www.accenture.com/us-en/services/public-service/health-human-service-child-support-enforcement
Lisa Rosengard
United Kingdom
Local time: 06:13
Native speaker of: English

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
disagree  AllegroTrans: "alternative" doesn't provide any explanation; try looking at Kiet's answer and references and consider posting an "agree"
2 days 3 hrs
neutral  Yvonne Gallagher: at least as explanatory as other answer which isn't very clear but no one should have to read a load of other stuff to get to the answer. Explain "enforcement" and "support services" and IN WA
2 days 7 hrs
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