The department provides the following services, with assistance available in both English and Spanish:

• Establishing paternity
• Locating a parent to establish paternity and/or child support and enforcing payment of support
• Establishing, modifying and enforcing a court order to pay child support
• Collecting and distributing child and spousal support payments
• Establishing and enforcing medical support (including dental and vision care) and family support orders

The department does not provide:

• Handle custody or visitation matters
• Handle divorces
• Obtain or enforce restraining orders (The agencies that provide these services vary from county to county. Consult the county government listings in your telephone directory for more information).
• Establish or modify spousal support orders