Child Support to Parent Directly or through State Agency?
All right, I need your experiences or advice:
I recently have support set up via Court orders to pay child support to the mother in Louisiana. Her lawyer recommends I pay the set support directly to the mother via personal checks by mail biweekly and keep the bank cashed checks as receipts.
Personally, I rather set up an account through the state of Louisiana Support enforcement Services so I know everything is ligit! Pros by doing this are many.
I did hear in some states where if the State is enforcing/collecting the support for a parent, that parent does not receive the full support amount due to fees for collect support. In my case, I'm not on the receiving end so I really don't care if the fees are applied.
Any of you out there can shed some light on what you would prefer? Better yet, if any of you are from Louisiana, which way are you doing?
Pay directly to the parent or pay to State support agency