Bergen County Child Support Challenges?

Since March of last year, when COVID-19 substantially changed all of our lives, non-essential court proceedings across the U.S. were consolidated, relocated, or postponed.

While that may be good news for drivers disputing traffic tickets, our municipal, county, state, and federal courts will certainly return to a backlog of cases that were not able to be resolved using video conferences technology other means in order to address safety concerns and resource constraints.

To facilitate operations during the COVID-19 crisis, many courts have also enacted a number of new emergency Family and Probate Local Rules. Between those changes and the limited availability of County Sheriff’s Officers to serve child support, custody agreements, and other family-related documents, many single parents are pursuing past-due child support payments pro se, meaning on their own without representation by an attorney.

If your county’s Child Support Enforcement Services provide you the documentation that needs to be served and paying to use uniformed officers simply does not work with the defendant/deadbeat parent, an independent process server might be more effective for you.

While we always present as professional, we can be casually dressed for cases like this, and are often be more effective as a result. This is not at all a criticism of uniformed law enforcement who have more than enough to do but may not provide the same element of surprise that we often can.

Please call Alejandra in our office at (347) 453-3243 if you are a pro se plaintiff looking for a cost-effective way to successfully serve your children’s other parent with child support or related documents.

These are already stressful times. We’ll do what we can to help your family receive the payments that they are entitled to.