Stockbridge-Munsee Community
Child Support
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About
The economic, political and social linkages between our Tribe and children are critical and ignored at the children’s peril. Recognize our Nation. Recognize our children.
The Agency will continue to present Child Support as support for Stockbridge children. We will establish, modify and enforce Child Support orders by helping parents support their child and we will encourage parents to be involved emotionally and financially in their child’s life. The Stockbridge-Munsee Community finds that the children of the Community are among the most valuable resources and their financial needs must be met to ensure their success in the future.
Any Child Support payments that you wish to make at the Child Support Office need to be either one of the following:
– Personal Check
– Money Order
Participants may not realize, NCPs who wish to get their payments started right away can come to our Tribal Child Support office or another child support agency and have a Notary notarize their Waiver and Consent form for them. This will remove the 20- day waiting period.
Forms & Information
- S-M Tribal Child Support Application
- Financial Disclosure
- Good Cause Notice
- Intercepting Tax Refunds
- Job Search Report
- Review Request Form
- Payment Coupon
- SMC Foreign Income Withholding Procedures
- The Power of Grandparents
- Free Financial Coaching Available to Tribal Citizens
- Per Cap Interception Procedures
- Community Services Directory – Stockbridge-Munsee Community
FAQs
Many general child support questions are answered on the State child support website at http://dcf.wisconsin.gov/bcs/
Under Wisconsin law, support continues until the child turns 18 years old, or until age 19 if the child is still in school or an equivalent program. The child support agency will need a letter on letterhead from the school providing proof of the enrollment and the expected date of graduation for child support to continue past the 18th birthday. If this letter is received after the support has been ended, our agency will reopen the support obligation and continue collection until the 19th birthday or graduation date, whichever occurs first.
The Child Support Agency does not handle placement or custody issues. Please contact the Clerk of Courts office at 715-793-4872 for more information. If parties obtain a court order in family court, where each parent is given a set visitation schedule and/or placement rights, child support is not notified of this. A change in placement or amount of placement/overnights parties share could change the amount of child support obligation. Parties must make sure child support has a copy of a placement order.
Parents can get a payment history by calling the Kids Info Line at 1-800-991-5530. 24/7/365 (this is an automated voice response system). Parents may choose a list of payments made over the past 90 days, year to date, or all of last calendar year.
If your court case is through S/M Tribal Child Support, please call 715-793-4036 and provide this information. If you are calling after hours, please leave your full name, phone number, KIDS pin# and the information you are updating on the voice mail system. If there are any questions regarding the information you have left, someone from the agency will contact you.
The Child Support Agency does not handle uninsured medical expense issues. In order to address this issue, you will need to file a motion in the Family Court against the other party. You can do this by completing a pro se packet with the Clerk of Courts office (there is a minimal fee), or by contacting a private attorney.
You may hire an attorney, file a pro se (do-it-yourself) motion through the Clerk of Courts or request a review packet through our agency. If it has been more than 24 months since your order was reviewed, you automatically qualify for a review. If it has been less, you must demonstrate a “substantial” change in circumstances, such as an increase or decrease in income or a court-ordered change in placement. We do not review orders based on unpaid medical bills, lack of visitation or other related issues.
If your court case is through S/M Tribal Child Support, please call 715-793-4036 if it has been more than 30 days since your last payment. Payers have the full month the payment is due to make their support payments before they are considered “late”.
However you choose to pay, all mailed support must be paid through the Wisconsin Support Collections Trust Fund. This is not only a state law, but this is the only way you can be sure that you get credit for your payments.
- Send your payment and coupon to:
WI SCTF
PO Box 74200
Milwaukee, WI 53274-0200 - Income withholding
- Mailing coupons
- Pay online
First, the parent owing support must file a tax return and have a refund due. Then, you will usually get the support payment from federal joint returns about six months after the Trust Fund gets the payment. You will usually receive the support payment from all state refunds and federal non-joint refunds about two days after the Trust Fund receives the tax intercept. If the paying parent requests a hearing about the tax intercept, the money cannot be sent to you until after the hearing. If you no longer owe the debt after you have been notified of the intercept, but before the intercept has been receipted, the monies will be refunded to you immediately. If you are married, you may file an injured spouse claim to receive a portion of your refund. Click here to download the Injured Spouse form.
A: The child support agency realizes that barriers, such as a criminal history, present difficulties in obtaining employment for child support payers. Resources such as local employment agencies and a state employment agency may be able to assist you in how to address these types of concerns with potential employers.
No. Wisconsin family law draws a very definite line between the issues of physical placement and child support. If you are being denied visitation rights, contact the Family Court Commissioner’s Office. It is important to remember that the Wisconsin Child Support program and its representatives have NO authority to create, change or enforce custody and physical placement provisions. Even though we can sympathize with your situation we cannot give you legal advice. No parent can deny court ordered visitations because the other parent is not making court ordered support payments.
No. Child support is not allowed to release any Personal Identifiable Information (PII) on any party in the case. No addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth, social security numbers. This information is considered Confidential Information. Confidential information is: Any information relating to an individual or information that may be used to identify an individual, including but not limited to the individual’s social security number or date of birth.
No. However, if your case was transferred from a County agency, interest on custodial arrears may have accrued while your case was managed at that County agency. When SMTCSA took jurisdiction of the case, the interest amounts owed transferred over, however, SMTCSA stopped the charging of interest on custodial arrears. The custodial interest arrears that accrued during the time your case was managed by the County agency are still owed.
Note: Kinship, Foster Care and W2 cases managed by SMTCSA do charge interest at a rate of 6% per year and all balances owed are to the State of Wisconsin.
Generally, no. The Bureau of Child Support has issued a policy that incarceration of at least 12 months is considered a “substantial change of circumstances” which allows the local child support agency to bring a motion for modification before the Circuit Court (unless the incarceration resulted from a crime against any child, a crime against a case participant, or is for failure to pay child support.) A written request needs to be made to your local child support agency.
You are ultimately responsible for making child support payments. If you notice that the payments are being deducted by your employer, but they are not being credited to your account, you need to keep copies of your pay stubs to prove the deductions were made by your employer. Your Case Manager may then take action against the employer for failure to send in the payments.
The money the other parent spends on housing, utilities, and food is money that is shared with your children. If you believe your children are not being adequately fed, clothed, or housed, you should contact the social/human services agency where your children live. Neither the state nor the federal government has jurisdiction (control) over how a parent spends child support payments.
Paternity may be established through the Voluntary Paternity Acknowledgement Form. SMTCSA has VPA forms at the agency that parties can fill out. Parties must send the applicable costs associated with sending this form along with the VPA form to the State Vital Records Office. By signing the VPA, the father’s name will be added to the birth certificate, however, the VPA form does not give the father any legal rights (decision making rights) or placement/visitation rights (where child lives). If the father and/or parties want legal rights, visitation/placement rights, they must file their own motion with the Clerk of Courts and obtain those rights. Per WI, if paternity was established by VPA, the mother retains full/sole legal and physical primary placement until a court order otherwise. Also, if paternity was established by VPA, the father listed is financially responsible for the child/ren and child support can be established.