summersrae said:
What is the name of your state? Arizona
I haven't received child support from my daughter's father since August of 2004...as it was the court order was for 345.00 a month and I was lucky if I was receiving 100.00 a month. Now months have passed and I haven't seen or heard anything when I contact Larmair County in Colorado where my court order is out of...they advice me they can not locate the father and have no way of collecting support so where do I go from here. Am I able to file a child support order here in the state of Arizona since that is where I currently reside or is there another means to try and enforce my child support payment? Any advise would be wonderful!
It's best (and legal) to keep the case in CO since this is the state it originated in. Transferring a CS case to a new state is often times a HUGE headache with months of missed payments due to the transfer (although this doesn't apply to you), and mountains of new paperwork. And then your case will only go back to the "bottom of the pile".
Generally, state CSE agencies can only collect if they know the NCP's SS#, a driver's license#, and/or last place of employment and address. This is how they track. If they say a NCP cannot be located, it's usually because for whatever reason, none of the above information appears current in any of their databases that records this information. If this is the case, then they have exhausted all their resources. However, you can play detective if you want. Here are some ideas:
1) A good detective agency could do this or if you know the social security # you could do a credit report on your own and probably find him. Also, if you have a United check cashing company near you ask them to do a trace. They have pretty good programs out there on how to find someone. Gives all known addresses, next to kin next to kin, neighbors, etc. They use it for finding peoples alias's and tracking people who write bad checks.
2) Go to any good Internet Search engine (Google, AltaVista, Yahoo, etc) and type in the person's first and last name. You never know what you might find. Some of the search engines have People Finder sections that will list everybody with that name, similar names, etc. When using a people finder expect to get lots of feedback/results if the last name is common (Smith, Jones).
3) Use an internet phone books to look him up (try more than one). Maybe he's listed somewhere. There are some that don't require you to specify the state to do a search so you can pull up the entire country with one search. Again, it's time consuming but it is possible to methodically run his name in every state, if needed. Of course if he has a very common name, this will be problematic. Also, if his parent's names are known run an internet search on them (general and phone book), maybe they are listed somewhere.
4) Pay to use a service like PeopleSearch. If you have a name and DOB you might get some good results. If you have only a name it's probably not worth it. If you still can't get a lead from all of that, he may not be able to be found and hiring a private investigator again may not do any good. PI's have access to more information than a regular person but they still need something to go on. However, if you do get *some * leads but still can't find his current location, a private investigator may be able to do something with the new info. Take the new info to one and see what they say.
5) If he works in fairly specialized field, run a search for all the companies that do that type of work. Maybe he's listed as an employee on their website. If he works in a very common field, this will not work and, even if it's a specialized field, they may not list their employees.
Good Luck!
