Family Law Child Support New Clerk Training Monday November 2, 2015 Kenneth A. Kent
Family Law Child Support
New Clerk Training
Monday November 2, 2015
Kenneth A. Kent
Overview
1. Family Law: Types of Cases
2. Child Support Case Establishment
3. Title IV-D Cases – What are these?
4. Non-Title IV-D Cases
5. Duties of the Depository
6. Clerks’ Child Support Services – How are these paid for?
7. State Disbursement Unit – What is this?
8. Central Disbursement Unit – What is this?
9. CLERC System – What is this?
10.Where to get Help?
Family Law: Types of Cases
Injunctions
Dependency
Domestic Violence
Divorce and Child Support
Child Support Case Establishment
Dissolution of Marriage
Paternity
Enforcement of Support
Title IV-D Cases
What are these?
Established by Federal Law, Title IV-D of the
Social Security Act
Enforced by the FL Department of Revenue
Chapter 61, Florida Statutes
Income Deduction Orders
Clerk maintains the official record
Clerk, through a cooperative agreement with DOR
receives federal reimbursement for services provided
Non-Title IV-D Cases
Private Cases where parties represent themselves or by attorneys
Paid to the Clerk
Can be by income deduction order
Clerk maintains the official record
Clerk receives a processing fee
Paid between the Parties
Parties are responsible for adhering to the Court’s order
Duties of the Depository
Official Record
Authorize Disbursements & Maintain Payment History
Delinquency Notices
Judgments and Arrearages
Intercepts
DL Suspensions (Non IV-D Cases)
Provide State Case Registry Information
Clerk’s Child Support Services
How are these paid for?
Non-Title IV-D Filing Fees
Non-Title IV-D Payment Processing Fees
Fees paid through the SDU (split with DOR)
Fees paid directly to the Depository
Cooperative Agreements (in place since
1998)
State Disbursement Unit
What is this?
Established in the mid 1990s through
National Welfare Reform
Implemented in FL in 1999 by FCCC
Single address for payers, principally large
companies
Transferred to DOR in 2005
Focus on electronic payments
Central Disbursement Unit
What is this?
Operates out of the SDU
Allows employers and Clerks to use the SDU
infrastructure
Handled by contract between the Clerk and the
SDU vendor
CLERC System
What is this?
“Clerk of Court Child Support Collection System” or “CLERC System” means the automated system established pursuant to s. 61.181(2)(b)1., integrating all Clerks of Court and depositories and through which payment data and State Case Registry data is transmitted to the Department of Revenue’s automated child support enforcement system.
Participation is mandatory - Chapter 61 of the Florida Statues.
CLERC System
Maintains all Child Support Depository
Cases
The application is used by all 67 Florida
Counties
Maintained and supported by CiviTek
CLERC Application Functions
Case Maintenance
Case party demographic
Obligation breakdown
Receipting
Local
SDU Lock-box processing
Daily Payment Procedures
Payment Disbursements
Delinquency and Judgments
Warrant Operations
Bank Reconciliations
Reports/Utilities
Code Tables
System Reports
CLERC Application Interfaces
DOR – Department of Revenue
Weekly SCR (State Case Registry) Files
SCR Non IV-D case data
Daily Disbursement Files
Hrsdata – IV-D payment disbursement data
306 – DOR disbursement detail
CLERC Application Interfaces
SDU – State Disbursement Unit Daily Case information demographic
110 files
Daily Receipts and Disbursement Files 270 (lock-box) – SDU receipts (48 hour turn around time)
305 Clerk disbursements
950 Non IV-D disbursements
Daily Exception Files 37501 misapplied
37502 change of address
37503 stop/void payments
Central Site – FCCC repositoryAll data transmitted to and from the CLERC system, DOR system and SDU is warehoused at FCCC.
Child Support Terms
“IV-D Cases” – Cases receiving child support services
through DOR.
“Non IV-D” – Cases not receiving assistance through DOR
services, but Child Support case is ordered to be paid
through depository.
“IDO” Income Deduction Order – An order by the court
requiring an employer to deduct payments from the payor
and to remit them directly to SDU.
“OTC” Over The Counter – Payments that are processed at
the local Clerk’s office.
SDU – State Disbursement Unit
DOR – Department of Revenue
CSE – Child Support Enforcement
Where to get Help?
FCCC Service Desk for Technical Issues(850) 414-2210
Brenda Standish, Service Center Manager
Meredith Ewing, Service Center Support Administrator
Tab Bradford, Service Center Support Engineer Administrator
Resolution Team for Constituent Issues(877) 234-2211
Kendall Harrell, Resolution Team Supervisor
SDU Resolution Team
The Resolution Team was established in 1998. The main purpose of the Resolution Team is to research and resolve all payments that are suspended at the State Disbursement Unit (SDU).
The Resolution Team provides customer service and resolution on escalated issues concerning child support payments receipted by the SDU.
This service is provided to Legislative and Gubernatorial offices, the Florida Department of Revenue, Clerks and their constituents.