How to Find Assets for Child Support Enforcement
When a parent refuses to pay court-ordered child support, finding their assets and income sources is the critical first step toward enforcement. A professional asset search identifies real property, vehicles, business interests, and employment indicators that your attorney or state enforcement agency can target for garnishment, liens, and seizure.
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Locating a non-paying parent’s assets supports child support enforcement through wage garnishment, liens, and levies. U.S. Asset Records documents the parent’s employer, real property, business interests, and financial-account indicators across all 50 states, delivered in 24 to 72 hours. Child support is a priority obligation that can reach a higher percentage of wages than ordinary debts, and the search identifies the income and assets enforcement can reach. The subject is never contacted.
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Why Parents Who Owe Support Hide Assets
Parents who fall behind on child support often restructure their financial lives to appear unable to pay: working for cash, titling property to relatives, forming LLCs to hold vehicles and real estate, and moving to new states without updating the court. Our skip trace ($95) locates them, and our asset search ($195) finds what they own.
What We Find That Supports Enforcement
Real property for judgment liens (child support liens have super-priority in most states). Vehicles, boats, and aircraft for seizure. Business entity ownership proving self-employment or undisclosed income sources. UCC filings revealing commercial assets and equipment. Employment indicators for wage garnishment. Our reports give your attorney or the Office of Child Support Enforcement specific targets.
State and Federal Enforcement Tools
Child support enforcement has powerful tools unavailable to regular creditors: federal tax refund intercept, passport denial for arrears over $2,500 (42 U.S.C. 654b), professional license suspension, driver’s license suspension, and contempt of court with potential incarceration. Our asset search identifies the assets and income that trigger these enforcement mechanisms.
Working with State Child Support Agencies
Every state has a child support enforcement agency (IV-D agency) that can pursue enforcement at no cost to the custodial parent. However, these agencies manage enormous caseloads. Providing them with a professional asset search report that identifies specific assets, specific employers, and specific property accelerates their work dramatically. A $195 report can be the difference between your case sitting in a queue and your case getting immediate attention.
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Child Support Enforcement Tools That Require Asset Intelligence
Wage Garnishment
Up to 50-65% of disposable earnings can be garnished for child support (much higher than the 25% cap for regular judgments under 15 U.S.C. 1673). Our search identifies employment indicators so your attorney or IV-D agency can serve the garnishment order on the correct employer.
Property Liens
Child support liens have super-priority in most states, meaning they are paid before most other creditors. Our real estate search identifies every property the obligor owns in all 50 states so you know where to file liens.
Bank Levies
Bank accounts can be frozen and seized for child support arrears. Our search identifies banking indicators through public records. Your attorney or enforcement agency serves the levy on the specific institution.
Federal Tax Intercept
The Federal Tax Refund Offset Program intercepts federal tax refunds for child support arrears. State IV-D agencies can submit cases. Our search can reveal whether the obligor is likely receiving refunds (Schedule ES overpayments).
Passport Denial
42 U.S.C. 652(k) authorizes denial, revocation, or restriction of passports for individuals owing $2,in child support. If our search reveals the obligor has recently traveled internationally or holds foreign assets, passport enforcement becomes leverage.
License Suspension
Most states suspend driver’s licenses, professional licenses, and recreational licenses for child support arrears. Our business entity search identifies professional practices and business licenses that would be affected by suspension.
Self-Employed Parents and Hidden Income
The most difficult child support cases involve self-employed obligors who control their own income reporting. A parent who owns a business can manipulate revenue, inflate expenses, pay personal costs through the company, and report minimal personal income. Our business asset search identifies every business entity connected to the obligor through all 50 Secretary of State databases. UCC filings reveal commercial assets and lending relationships. Property records show real estate that should not be affordable on the reported income. This intelligence supports motions to impute income based on lifestyle and asset holdings.
When the Obligor Moves to Another State
Parents who owe child support sometimes relocate to avoid enforcement. Our skip trace ($95) locates them. The Uniform Interstate Family Support Act (UIFSA) provides mechanisms for enforcing child support orders across state lines. Our nationwide search identifies assets in the new state so enforcement can begin immediately after registration of the order.
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This service provides professional asset investigation across all 50 U.S. states, delivered in 24-72 hours with flat-fee pricing starting at $95. Trusted by law firms nationwide since 2018, all searches are FCRA, GLBA, and DPPA compliant.
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How much does a professional asset search cost?
$95 skip trace, $195 public report, or $295 certified report. All cover all 50 states with 24-72 hour delivery. No contracts.
How long does an asset search take?
24-72 hours. Delivered via email as a detailed PDF report. All 50 states searched simultaneously.
Is the search confidential?
Yes. 100% confidential. The subject receives no notification that a search has been conducted.
Can you find bank account balances?
Bank balances are protected by the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act. Our search identifies banking indicators through public records. Direct access requires legal process.
What states do you cover?
All 50 states on every report. No additional charge for multi-state coverage.
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How Asset Intelligence Strengthens Child Support Enforcement
Child support enforcement has tools that ordinary creditors do not. Support obligations are treated as a priority, reaching up to 50 to 60 percent of disposable earnings, well above the 25 percent cap on consumer debts, and enforcement agencies can pursue income withholding, liens, license suspension, and interception of certain payments. Each of these tools, however, depends on knowing where the parent works and what they own.
U.S. Asset Records documents a parent’s current employer for income withholding, real property against which support liens attach, and the business interests and financial-account indicators that reveal additional reachable resources. For a custodial parent or their attorney, this turns an unenforced order into an actionable one.
The self-employed and under-the-table problem
Enforcement is hardest when a parent is self-employed, paid informally, or deliberately obscuring income. In these cases, wage withholding has no employer to serve, and the focus shifts to documented assets: real property, business ownership, vehicles, and the entities a parent controls. An asset search surfaces these holdings, providing the factual basis to pursue support through liens and other remedies where wage withholding alone would fail.
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