Legal Question in Family Law in Minnesota

Your child support case worker does not represent you, and does not have any authority to modify your child support obligation. Your only recourse is to bring a motion to modify child support. Your motion will typically be heard by a child support magistrate. You would be well advised to consult with an attorney about how to bring a motion to modify child support, although you can obtain forms from the court administrator's office. I would caution you that the forms are worth about what you pay for them. Yes, they will help you assemble most of the facts necessary to bring a motion to modify child support, but often they are not alone sufficient. The problem is that legal forms suggest the court merely responds to facts, in the way a computer responds to inputs from a keyboard. But the court is not a computer. What matters is whether the facts are assembled into a meaningful argument, and that requires more than filling in the blanks on a form. If you cannot afford a lawyer, you may have no choice but to use the court's forms. In any case, you cannot obtain a modification of child support without bringing a motion.