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Note: Your county has a family law facilitator that can help you with child support, spousal or partner support, and related health insurance issues for FREE. Click here for more information and to find a family law facilitator.

Your county also has a local child support agency that will help you with child support and related health insurance issues for FREE. Click here for more information and to find your local child support agency.

If you are NOT the spouse or domestic partner of the other parent, you can ask for a child support orders in these kinds of cases:


Domestic Violence Restraining Order	If you have been a victim of domestic violence, you can ask for child support orders when you ask for a domestic violence restraining order as long as the parentage of the other parent has already been established. Click here to learn about establishing parentage. You cannot ask for spousal or partner support. Click here for help getting a domestic violence restraining order.
Parentage Case	A parentage case is for parents who are not married and have children together. You cannot ask for spousal or partner support. This kind of case says who the legal parents of a child are. The judge can make child support orders in a parentage case. Click here for help with parentage.
Petition for Custody and Support of Minor Children	If you have signed a Voluntary Declaration of Paternity, you can file a Petition for Custody and Support of Minor Children (form FL-260). This type of case lets the court make child support orders and other orders. You cannot ask for spousal or partner support. Click here for help filing a Petition for Custody and Support of Minor Children.
Local Child Support Agency (formerly the District Attorney) Enforcement Case	If the local child support agency files a case, it will ask the court for a child support order. Click here to learn more about your local child support agency.

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