Q: Why did my daughters grandma get my back child support .
I raised my daughter from birth to 2 months before she turned 18. She moved in to her grandmas house (dads mom) and has paid rent and utilities the whole time. I called and terminated any further child support because she was supporting herself, but I just got a statement and all my back child support was paid to the grandma. How is this possible? We have the same first name, could it be a mistake and they just got away with it ? Is there anything I can do? It’s more about principle to me and the fact that I supported her with hardly receiving child support the whole time and then someone else gets $1400.00 that was something I should have got long ago . Thank you if you have any advice for me I appreciate it.
A: You would need to look at the child support order that ordered the child support. Who is listed as the payee to receive listed to receive child support in the court order? The person who is listed as the payee is the person that the Court has ordered child support paid to. If someone else is receiving the child support, then you may need to contact the Child Support Payment Center to see why child support is being disbursed to someone other than the payee listed in the court order. If the court order states a different payee then you think is correct, then you probably need to file something with the Court to ask the Court to change the payee listed in the order. However, if the funds have already been paid out, the Court may be unwilling to retroactively change the payee listed in the order.
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