How does the Alaska child support agency enforce support orders?
We collect child support as ordered by the court in divorce, dissolution and child custody cases. We also collect child support under administrative orders issued by the Child Support Services Division or other states. To collect support payments, we issue orders to withhold and deliver income or other property. Any of a noncustodial parents property, including wages, commissions, retirement checks, bank accounts, Alaska Permanent Fund dividends, stock dividends and income-producing property such as rentals can be subject to withholding. However, most orders are issued against wages. Under a wage-withholding order, an employer is ordered to automatically withhold a noncustodial parent’s wages and send the money to the child support agency, which will forward it to the custodial parent. Other collection methods may include voluntary payments by the noncustodial parent, seizure of IRS tax refunds, liens against the parents property and revocation of state occupational and driver’s licens
