Child support stopped being withheld?

We pay child support for two children (with different mothers) through KY to WA. I got a letter from KY stating the payment would no longer be withheld for one of the children. I checked the WA website and it shows that payments have stopped going to my husband's ex 3 months or more ago. WA had closed the account/case for one child and the two payments have been paid to the other child. We had not received any other kind of notification from any court, adoption agency, the mother, or DCS at all in regard to this. So if the mother has moved (although we're entitled to contact with the child the mother is invisible to us) and filed somewhere else for child support - we could infact be at least 3 months behind even though we've been paying? Is this the case? Why would one agency close the case if there had been no other case opened? Obviously to stop the support a court order would have had to been furnished and we should have been given notice. I'm so confused AND WORRIED!!

Ask your question to a judge, and explain it just as you did here.

As long as you have been paying through the system then no you are not behind.

You need to verify with the COURT in KY that the child support case has been closed. the child support authority really didn't have any duty to inform you, but it was a nice thing to do. The court has the final say in such matters. You need to check to see if the action has been dismissed, and if it has not, you need to 1) sign a stipulation with the child support authority to have it dismissed (an agreement that the court reviews) -- this is the easy way, or 2) file a motion to dismiss where you'd have to argue with the child support authority before the court as to why it should be dismissed.

As for the mother being in another state, the child support authority there can't put your husband in arrears for back child support. they can't even file a new case until the one in WA is dissolved, and then, your husband would have the due process right of being served, and either arguing before the court or signing another stipulation. If a new case is generated in another state, he has a right to a speedy trial which means they can't hang on to a complaint for months and months, and then decide to whack him with a big lump sum for past support. Hence the need for him to be served promptly.

Hope it works out.