Practitioners in the child support courts or those who even occasionally intersect with the child support world probably know that there are three ways in which child support can be paid. First, in those cases where there is a high degree of cooperation between the child support obligor and the child support obligee, the support can be made payable directly from obligor to obligee with no court or administrative agency involved in the transfer of the support payments. Included in this grouping would be any type of direct deposit that the obligor might create to facilitate the payment to the obligee.
Second, the child support can be payable by way of the New York State Child Support Enforcement Program, more specifically the local Support Collection Unit (SCU). Payment through the SCU is often the tool of choice. Not only does state law1 mandate SCU involvement when the custodial parent desires same, but SCU involvement is accompanied by a number of useful collection techniques, including a mandatory income execution (unless good cause is found by the court to not enter same) for collection of the current care obligation, and a number of automated methods to collect arrears.
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