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Show 1902 9, Child Support Gets Boost From Recovery Services By Loren Webb Sun Salma Reaper Associate Editor Child support; you owe it to your kids, is the message found on a poster at the Richfield office, Bureau of Child Enforcement. Support Under the aspices of Services, Recovery Department The of Social Services, the bureau is responsible for collection of child support payments from an absent parent, says Owen Johnson, supervisor out of St. George. The bureau becomes involved after a divorce, a separation or on a paternity suit involving an illegitimate child. Johnson says the office is involved with public assistance cases where the individuals need some The reimbursement. bureau is only involved as long as parents remain on public assistance. Nonpublic assistance is directed out of the Salt Lake City office for still families the absent through parent, public assistance is dropped. Should an absent parent leave the state and refuse to pay, says Roleen Olsen, the bureau can locate them through a Uniform Reciprocal Enforcement Support Act (URESA) form in which all 50 states cooperate to help locate the parent. When located, the bureau sends a URESA request form to the county where the absent parent resides and orders he or she into court where a judge determines arrearages. Of course, it doesnt always come back in the amount we request, she says and explains that thirty to 40 percent of the cases handled, are If in the state, and the absent parent is slow in paying, Olsen says the bureau will routinely garnish up to 50 percent e. the absent parents wages and attach personal property and even attach saving and bank accounts. this times, Many of financial support determines whether the family is on welfare assistance or not, says Johnson. With a judgement fices include two regions in Salt Lake City, plus two other regions- -a northern and a southern one. The Richfield office is at the top in per employee collection or $25,542 or $51,084 total collected for July 1982, said Johnson. The next highest per employee team was in Ogden which collected $23,605 per employee. Recovery Services is the only agency in the state that collects money to reimburse the state for tax dollars. People think all the state does is bleed of technician, Overall, Services collect for foster overpayment, care, medicaid fraud and third the Bureau of Child Support Enforcement, area really helping families in need. The team collected the most money in the state for July. says Sevier, Sanpete, Wayne, Juab, Millard and Piute, the Richfield office has a caseload of 600, according to Roleen Olsen, investigator in the Richfield office. Cases are first handled when a duty support form is filled out by either parent. It gives information on the parent that has the Fryer Breasfls Fresh Frozen Fryer Halves A Serving Suggestion final obligation, says Johnson. T person signing the .l m agrees to assign all his rights of child support to the State of Utah. He also agrees, by signing, to help Recovery Services 32-o- When parents Recovery Services obligation is then to determine what the fathers financial obligation will be. If a divorce is final, Recovery Services checks to see that the absent parent follows through with child support payment. If the father or absent parent does not pay, the bureau sees what can be done. They then notify the father and request he come in and explain in further detail what he owes, says Johnson. once That money to submitted, goes Department of Social funds. Service For example, if the office is collecting $100 a month child support, and the mother receives a grant of $200 from welfare, that money goes back to the THE RICHFIELD 43 So. Mlin REAPER (96-44- . TAB SPRITE 612 Oz. Cans a $ z. Fancy Cut Noodles 0 Flour Wri9h,'s Reg. or Unbleached 24 pkg. oz.QQc C 99 $1.79 -- 0 For New Crop Cook- - Out! 16-o- lb. 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If the male refuses to acknowledge or doesnt know whether he fathered the child, blood tests can be taken to establish paternity, says Johnson. Once is paternity established, the child is then entitled as an heir to whatever the father has, and legal Wedding ? 0? Elbow Macaroni Long Spaghetti Town obligation. That form inheritance birth right. a COKE House money. In a paternity case, the mother of an illegitimate child would file the duty support form and name the alledged father to get child support, he adds. If the father acknowledges siring the child, the bureau gets the father and mother to sign the veterans Planning i r get the child support including hunting permission slips and need to have hunters fill them out. me encompassing the Resources Wildlife 1170113 bureau if hunter will obtain permission first, Nishiguchi said Some farmers just want to know whos on their land, and some of them use the Division of Nishiguchi, Garland, said some crops are still in the field waiting harvest, and other fields are being planted in spring wheat. Both can be easily damaged by hunters who do not obtain permission before entering private land, he said. Private property is always posted for a good reason, such as cattle in the area, Nishiguchi said, and the best way to prevent more land from being put under the No Top Team in The State Although they have the unpleasant job of making sure child support payments are made on time, Roleen Olsen (left) and Mejrie Anderson, of becomes involved, it sees that payment is made to the parent who has custody of the child. That is its primary purpose. Covering a six county area and alloy hunting crops Utah Farm Bureau president Frank O. having the The Richfield office is With the dove hunting Trespatsing signs is for also the only office in the exercise state, run by women, says season already open and hunters to other game and bird courteiy to the property Olsen. hunts scheduled this fall, owner) whose livelihood Utahs farmers and depends on their crops ranchers are asking for and livestock. ' Even on posted land hunters cooperation to to some farmers will still prevent damage livestock, money from an absent parent. Where she said- - property. collecting problems Recovery liabili,y . or court order for child Johnson says .this support, and the parent is means the Richfield in arrears, the bureau can also go in and in- office is doing a fantastic the absent job and working the area tercept parents state tax return regularly. in Utah. The number of payers, And since 1981, the per employee is 100.5 at bureau can also intercept the Richfield office. a federal income tax Johnson said however, return. Olsen says this the bureau doesnt get in helps collecting involved in criminal nonin support cases, only civil and arrearages locating the parent if his ones. The criminal cases address was not known. are referred to the Salt The bureau can also Lake City team for acthe absent tion. garnish Merrie Nevertheless, parents unemployment Anderson, investigative compensation. 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