| Wisconsin Child Support | | | | Before a custodial parent is able to establish |
| When enrolled in a state or federal public assistances | | | | paternity, they must first located the father. |
| program, the child welfare will refer you to an agency | | | | Wisconsin has assistance in locating the missing father |
| of child support for service with no charge. If at the | | | | so that paternity can be established. This assistance |
| current state you are not provided with public aid, | | | | is the Kids Information Data System (KIDS), which is |
| you can stop by your local child support agency and | | | | designed to automatically check computer databases |
| pick up an application for support services. | | | | for any information on parents who are behind on |
| Wisconsin child support Paternity | | | | child support. |
| If your child was born in wedlock, then the husband | | | | Changing Wisconsin Child Support |
| is labeled the legal father. However, if the child is born | | | | Child support cases are reviewed every three years |
| out of wedlock, then as a custodial parent you must | | | | or at the custodial parents request. The reason |
| establish paternity before a court can order any child | | | | behind this review is to see if the non-custodial |
| support. By volunteering to file a paternity | | | | parent has had a raise or a cut in pay. The Wisconsin |
| acknowledgement form with the state, you would be | | | | Child Support Bureau also determines if the child |
| able to determine the father by establishing that | | | | support payments are too high or too low. This |
| paternity. You can retrieve this form from the | | | | review can also be requested more often than the |
| hospital where your baby is born. When at anytime | | | | three years. For example, if the non-custodial parent |
| the alleged father doubts the paternity of the child, | | | | changes jobs frequently and the pay is better than |
| there will be a genetic test to proof once and for all | | | | the last job, then the non-custodial parent has the |
| who the father of the child will be. | | | | right to have the child support modified. |
| Wisconsin Child Support Locators | | | | |