If you are legally obligated to make your Child Support payments through the state of Rhode Island (child support RI), then all checks or money orders must be made payable to the:
“Rhode Island Family Court”
- Send the RI child support payments to “RI Child Support Payment Service Unit P.O. Box 5073 Hartford, CT 06102-5073”
Identify any child support checks or money orders by PRINTING your name & The Docket Number on your check.
Get the 2023 Rhode Island child support guidelines and 2023 child support in RI worksheet
I don’t think it is good public policy for the State of Rhode Island, Child Support Enforcement to contract with an out of state Connecticut company when the state of RI has unemployment. If you are under a direct payment order, then you should continue to pay the mother of your child directly.
If you meet any of the following criteria, then all child support payments must be sent to the above addressor you can also make your support payments on the 2nd floor of Providence Family Court “reciprocal clerk”:
1.) You were previously under a Rhode Island child support garnishment order, but you are now unemployed and unemployment or a new job has not started garnishing your wages again.
2.) You have a “cash” medical obligation as a result of fact that the mother of your child is on rite care or rite share.
3.) You are under a Family Court order to pay your child support through the State of Rhode Island because the mother of the child or children is either a full-service client of the state of Rhode Island or receiving bookkeeping services from Rhode Island.
4.) If a css1 form has been submitted to the reciprocal clerk and an order is running on the system, then you will not get credit for payments made directly to the other parent.