The Oregon Child Support Program’s mission is to support parents to support children. We provide services and support to parents to ensure every child receives the financial and emotional support they need to thrive.
The Oregon Child Support Program provides these services:
- Establishing paternity/parentage
- Finding the noncustodial parent
- Determining the amount of child support
- Establishing a child support order or making changes to an existing support order
- Coordinating a child’s health care coverage
- Collecting and processing child support payments
- Processing spousal support payments in certain situations
- Ensuring compliance with child support orders
The Oregon Child Support Program also helps employers understand and comply with legal obligations, such as reporting new hires, withholding income for child support, and enrolling dependents in medical insurance plans if available.
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Dawn Marquardt, Acting Director
Dawn is the acting division administrator of the Division of Child Support and the acting director of the Oregon Child Support Program, Oregon’s federal Title IV-D program. Dawn oversees employees in 13 offices who provide child support services for 121,000 cases, and coordinates with 15 district attorney offices that also provide child support services under the Oregon Child Support Program. Those services include establishment of parentage; establishment, modification, and enforcement of child support orders; and local and intergovernmental work. The Oregon Child Support Program collects $319 million per year to distribute to families.
Prior to joining the Oregon DOJ in 2014, Dawn’s career included work in Wisconsin as a child support attorney with two counties. Dawn holds a B.A. from the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater and a J.D. from the University of Wisconsin Law School.
Director’s Message
Raising and supporting children isn’t easy – and it’s even harder when you’re on your own. Every day, the Oregon Child Support Program helps more than 220,000 parents provide the financial and emotional support their children need. The program processes more than $1 million a day in medical and child support for our youngest and most vulnerable Oregonians and is one of the most cost-effective and efficient agencies in the state.
Through the Oregon DOJ’s Division of Child Support, and the work of partnering district attorney offices, the Oregon Child Support Program offers services that improve the well-being of children, reduce reliance on public assistance, encourage family self-sufficiency, return funds to the state treasury, and save taxpayer money.
As the acting director of Oregon’s Child Support Program, I’m committed to continuing our tradition of dedicated public service – supporting parents to support children.
Dawn M. Marquardt
Acting Director
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This report is for fiscal year 2024 and prepared by the Research Analyst team.