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• General Information About Child Support  -  If you are taking care of a child, you should be able to get child support from the other parent. Read about how to get a child support order.
• How Do Courts Calculate Child Support?  -  The court uses a Child Support Worksheet and Child Support Guidelines to decide how much child support to order. The Child Support Guidelines were established by the Indiana Supreme Court.
• What if I am behind in my child support payments?  -  If you do not pay child support as ordered by the court, you can be brought back to court. Read this article to see what can happen to you, and what you should do.
• Relationship between Visitation and Child Support  -  Visitation and child support are two separate issues. A parent cannot refuse to pay support because she is not getting visitation. A parent cannot refuse visitation because she is not getting child support.
• Changing Child Support Orders  -  Either parent can ask the court to change a child support order. The court can change the order if there has been a substantial and continuing change of circumstances.
• Who claims the child as a dependent for tax purposes?  -  Generally, the custodial parent will claim the child for tax purposes. However, the court can order that the non-custodial parent claim the child for tax purposes.
• Child Support and Social Security Benefits  -  Parents who get SSI cannot be forced to pay child support. Parents who get SSD might be ordered to pay child support. Sometimes the SSD can count as the child support payment.
• General Information About Child Support and Non-Citizens  - 
• Child Support and Military Pay  -  Information about getting child support or alimony (called maintenance in Indiana) from military pay.
• Child Support Calculator  -  This is a site that can help you estimate a child support amount.
• General information about child support.  -  Brochure. Español
• How can I change my child support order.  -  Brochure.Español
• ¿Qué es el subsidio familiar para los hijos?  - 
• Embargo de bienes: Límites y protecciones para los deudores  -  Un embargo de bienes es una orden de la corte que le dice a usted o a su patrón que le quite parte de su salario y se lo mande a la corte para pagar a alguien que tiene una sentencia contra usted.
• El Sustento de Los Hijos  - 

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