The Child Support Division of the District Attorney’s Office helps parents work through child support issues and seeks to ensure financial and medical support for children through aggressive approaches to locating the responsible parent, enforcing child support orders, and establishing paternity.
The division provides the following services:
- Enforcing child, family, and medical support orders
- Establishing child and medical support orders
- Establishing paternity (legal fatherhood) for children born out of wedlock
- Locating parents who are absent from the home
- Modifying existing child support orders
Under the direction of Brenda Mahan and District Attorney Arthur Mallory, the office staff of six is experienced in gaining cooperation from parents to meet their court-ordered obligations. Staff encourages commitment from both parents to do what is best for their children and helps with the struggles and financial challenges of raising them.
An application for opening a child support case can be mailed to the requesting applicant, picked up in the office during business hours, or downloaded from the county’s website. From there, the requesting parent should review the checklist for additional paperwork needed to file, and once the documentation is gathered, schedule an appointment with Whitney Aboytes, child support caseworker.
Child support payments may be received by direct deposit or using the Nevada Child Support Debit Card. The differences and benefits of each payment method are outlined on the Churchill County Child Support web pages.
The Child Support Division of the District Attorney’s office is co-located with the DA’s office at 165 N. Ada Street in Fallon. The phone number is 775-423-8423. The office is open weekdays (excluding holidays) from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
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