Both parents are required to support their children. Without a court order the mother is not ordered to pay support. The father needs to file a custody, visitation and child support action and ask the court to order mother to pay child support. Or the father may open a case with the Department of Child Support Services and they will handle obtaining an order for almost no cost. However, it will take them longer to get the order then if you hire an attorney or even if you try to do it yourself.
Answered on Feb 13th, 2013 at 7:12 PM