INTERGOVERNMENTAL FORMS MATRIX TRAINING DOCUMENT

Requests to Open an Intergovernmental IV-D Case

Based on OCSS Intergovernmental Forms

Intergovernmental forms requirements are listed below. Additional documents may be required, depending on the case circumstances and responding state requirements. Check the Intergovernmental Reference Guide (IRG), contact the responding state, or do both to determine requirements before sending a case. International cases with Hague Child Support Convention countries require different forms. See AT-23-03 for information about Hague Convention forms. Click the hyperlink below to be taken to a sample form.

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Action Requested Federal Forms Required

Establish parentage* and establish and enforce a support order for

  • Current support
  • Retroactive child support
  • Medical support only

1. Child Support Enforcement Transmittal #1 – Initial Request

  • (Check action 1; also check 2.A and/or B or C.)
  • A “cover letter” required to refer IV D interstate cases to a responding state’s central registry

2.Child Support Agency Confidential Information Form

  • Safeguards the privacy of individuals by providing a means to record their personal identifiable information on a separate document that is not to be filed with a tribunal or shared with the other party.

3. Uniform Support Petition

  • Legal pleading needed for the responding state to initiate action

4.General Testimony

  • Provides a framework for stating detailed information and evidence to support the action requested in the petition

5. Personal Information Form for UIFSA § 311

  • Records, in a separate document, the personal identifiable information required by UIFSA § 311, eliminating repetition of the required personal identifiable information in the Uniform Support Petition, Declaration in Support of Parentage, and General Testimony

6. Declaration in Support of Establishing Parentage (for each child)

  • Supplements the Uniform Support Petition when parentage is at issue in an intergovernmental case

Establish and enforce a support order for

  • Current support
  • Retroactive child support
  • Medical support only

1. Child Support Enforcement Transmittal #1 – Initial Request

  • (Check action 1; also check 2.A and/or B or C.) A “cover letter” required to refer IV D interstate cases to a responding state’s central registry

2. Child Support Agency Confidential Information Form

  • Safeguards the privacy of individuals by providing a means to record their personal identifiable information on a separate document that is not to be filed with a tribunal or shared with the other party

3. Uniform Support Petition

  • Legal pleading needed for the responding state to initiate action

4. General Testimony

  • Provides a framework for stating detailed information and evidence to support the action requested in the petition

5. Personal Information Form for UIFSA § 311 Records

  • As a separate document, the personal identifiable information required by UIFSA § 311, eliminating repetition of the required personal identifiable information in the Uniform Support Petition, Declaration in Support of Parentage, and General Testimony

For cases with existing responding tribunal orders: • Enforce

  • Enforce arrears only
  • Change person/entity entitled to receive funds and enforce

1.Child Support Enforcement Transmittal #1 – Initial Request

  • (Check action 1; also check 2.A and/or B or C.) A “cover letter” required to refer IV D interstate cases to a responding state’s central registry

2. Child Support Agency Confidential Information Form

  • Safeguards the privacy of individuals by providing a means to record their personal identifiable information on a separate document that is not to be filed with a tribunal or shared with the other party

For cases with existing responding tribunal orders:

  • Modify and enforce
  • Modify then close the intergovernmental IV-D case

1.Child Support Enforcement Transmittal #1 – Initial Request

  • (Check action 1; also check 2.A and/or B or C.) A “cover letter” required to refer IV D interstate cases to a responding state’s central registry

2. Child Support Agency Confidential Information Form

  • Safeguards the privacy of individuals by providing a means to record their personal identifiable information on a separate document that is not to be filed with a tribunal or shared with the other part y

3. Uniform Support Petition

  • Legal pleading needed for the responding state to initiate action

4. General Testimony

  • Provides a framework for stating detailed information and evidence to support the action requested in the petition

5. Personal Information Form for UIFSA § 311 Records

  • In a separate document, the personal identifiable information required by UIFSA § 311, eliminating repetition of the required personal identifiable information in the Uniform Support Petition, Declaration in Support of Parentage, and General Testimony

For cases with existing orders from another jurisdiction (not the responding state):

  • Register and enforce
  • Register and enforce arrears only

1.Child Support Enforcement Transmittal #1 – Initial Request

  • (Check action 1; also check 2.A and/or B or C.) A “cover letter” required to refer IV D interstate cases to a responding state’s central registry

2.Child Support Agency Confidential Information Form

  • Safeguards the privacy of individuals by providing a means to record their personal identifiable information on a separate document that is not to be filed with a tribunal or shared with the other party.

3.Letter of Transmittal Requesting Registration

  • Completed by initiating jurisdiction to request registration of an existing order for enforcement and/or modification

For cases with existing orders from another jurisdiction (not the responding state):

  • Register, modify, and enforce
  • Register, modify, then close the intergovernmental IV-D case

1. Child Support Enforcement Transmittal #1 – Initial Request

  • (Check action 1; also check 2.A and/or B or C.) A “cover letter” required to refer IV D interstate cases to a responding state’s central registry

2. Child Support Agency Confidential Information Form

  • Safeguards the privacy of individuals by providing a means to record their personal identifiable information on a separate document that is not to be filed with a tribunal or shared with the other party

3. Letter of Transmittal Requesting Registration

  • Completed by initiating jurisdiction to request registration of an existing order for enforcement and/or modification

4. Uniform Support Petition

  • Legal pleading needed for the responding state to initiate action

5. General Testimony

  • Provides a framework for stating detailed information and evidence to support the action requested in the petition

6. Personal Information Form for UIFSA § 311 Records

  • In a separate document, the personal identifiable information required by UIFSA § 311, eliminating repetition of the required personal identifiable information in the Uniform Support Petition, Declaration in Support of Parentage, and General Testimony
* While UIFSA section 402 allows for the establishment of parentage only, parentage establishment is not a stand-alone request in an intergovernmental IV-D case, but must be part of a request to establish and enforce an order. All forms are samples of completed forms and were taken from PORT v. 2 Glossary “Eloquence documents.” Documents should be generated through Eloquence when working a real case. Document definitions are taken from the OCSS Intergovernmental Forms OMB 0970-0085.