2025 Maryland Child Support Symposium

This breakout session will introduce participants to various methods used to establish income for parties to a child support case.  Resources available to the Child Support Administration will be explored along with techniques for interpreting available financial information and how to deal with situations where traditional financial data is unavailable.  In addition, the session will explore the process of evaluating requests for modification of a child support obligation.

This presentation will discuss the enforcement options available for child support orders registered with the Child Support Administration (“CSA”). Presenters will explain the agency’s administrative tools available to enforce a child support obligation, many of which are automated by the CSA’s case management computer system known as the Child Support Management System. The presentation will review the procedure for an obligor to challenge some of these administrative functions including administrative appeals to Circuit Court. There will be a thorough explanation of constructive civil contempt actions, which are the most widely used judicial enforcement tools. There will be a review of the directions provided in Md. Rule 15-207(e) and best practices from a Title IV-D attorneys’ perspective. You will learn about criminal contempt proceedings as well as actions that local agency offices may take against worker’s compensation benefits and personal injury awards.

This breakout session will provide participants with information on developing and operating an employment program for non-custodial parents who are unemployed, or under-employed, and not paying on their child support order.  The session will explore the types of resources necessary to operate a program and where jurisdictions may be able to find those resources, even in smaller, more rural areas of the State.  The session will also include a discussion on how jurisdictions can motivate non-custodial parents to seek and maintain employment, how programs can assist program participants to overcome barriers to employment, and how to deal with program participants with substance use disorders, mental health and other medical issues, and those who lack the necessary education and skills to become employed.

This breakout session will introduce participants to various methods used to establish income for parties to a child support case.  Resources available to the Child Support Administration will be explored along with techniques for interpreting available financial information and how to deal with situations where traditional financial data is unavailable.  In addition, the session will explore the process of evaluating requests for modification of a child support obligation.

This presentation will discuss the enforcement options available for child support orders registered with the Child Support Administration (“CSA”). Presenters will explain the agency’s administrative tools available to enforce a child support obligation, many of which are automated by the CSA’s case management computer system known as the Child Support Management System. The presentation will review the procedure for an obligor to challenge some of these administrative functions including administrative appeals to Circuit Court. There will be a thorough explanation of constructive civil contempt actions, which are the most widely used judicial enforcement tools. There will be a review of the directions provided in Md. Rule 15-207(e) and best practices from a Title IV-D attorneys’ perspective. You will learn about criminal contempt proceedings as well as actions that local agency offices may take against worker’s compensation benefits and personal injury awards.

This breakout session will provide participants with information on developing and operating an employment program for non-custodial parents who are unemployed, or under-employed, and not paying on their child support order.  The session will explore the types of resources necessary to operate a program and where jurisdictions may be able to find those resources, even in smaller, more rural areas of the State.  The session will also include a discussion on how jurisdictions can motivate non-custodial parents to seek and maintain employment, how programs can assist program participants to overcome barriers to employment, and how to deal with program participants with substance use disorders, mental health and other medical issues, and those who lack the necessary education and skills to become employed.