The San Joaquin County Department of Child Support Services (DCSS) helps parents fulfill their responsibilities to their children by providing a variety of services

• Establishing paternity
• Locating a parent to establish paternity and/or child support and enforcing payment of support
• Establishing, modifying and enforcing a court order to pay child support
• Collecting and distributing child and spousal support payments
• Establishing and enforcing medical support (including dental and vision care) and family support orders

DCSS Does NOT:

• Handle custody or visitation matters
• Handle divorces
• Obtain or enforce restraining orders
• Establish spousal support orders