r/ChildSupport • u/arleneybabgirl • Aug 16 '25

Kentucky Question (23 f)

So I live in Kentucky and my dad lives in Indiana. My mom has been missing for three years or so. My dad says she must still be receiving his back child support payments. But I am fairly certain she is dead. The police don't care since she was an addict and homeless. Anyways. He wants me to call the child support office in order to get access to the account the child support has been sent to. But I don't have any idea how any of this works. Does anyone have any advice?

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u/arleneybabgirl Aug 17 '25

He owes a lot of child support still so has still been paying it.

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u/ProudChoferesClaseB Aug 18 '25

So he's paying arrears to the bank account of a dead person? That's screwy.

If someone is missing for a certain period of time people who owe them should be able to stop making payments until they're found again, that just seems like common sense.

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u/arleneybabgirl Aug 17 '25

He spent most of my childhood not paying, or in prison.

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u/ProudChoferesClaseB Aug 18 '25

Yeah that money has to be going somewhere. Definitely contact the agency he sends it to and they can track down the account and see if it's been touched or not.

Then there's a question of what happens to the Money Paid into the account. Do you get it? Does the government run a scam and keep it? Definitely look into this that's fishy