CHILD SUPPORT BUREAU GETS NEW NAME.Byline: Erik N. Nelson Staff Writer Parents seeking child support needn't worry that the support collection arm of the Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. County District Attorney's CERTIFICATE, ATTORNEY'S, Practice, English law. By statute 37 Geo. III., c. 90, s. 26, 28, attorneys are required to deliver to the commissioners of stamp duties, a paper or note in writing, containing the name and usual place of residence of such person, and thereupon, on paying certain Office will be severed sev·er v. sev·ered, sev·er·ing, sev·ers v.tr. 1. To set or keep apart; divide or separate. 2. To cut off (a part) from a whole. 3. on July 1, representatives of the D.A.'s Encino office told parents Saturday. ``It's the same office; it's only the name on the door that's changing,'' said Edward Mizrahi, head deputy district attorney in the Encino Bureau of Family Support, which will change to the Los Angeles County Child Support Services support services Psychology Non-health care-related ancillary services–eg, transportation, financial aid, support groups, homemaker services, respite services, and other services Department. change was mandated in all counties by the 1999 Child Support Reform Act, which also created the new California Department of Child Support Services, formerly part of the Department of Social Services social services Noun, pl welfare services provided by local authorities or a state agency for people with particular social needs social services npl → servicios mpl sociales . ``They wanted to increase the emphasis on child support enforcement,'' Mizrahi said, by making the departments on all levels autonomous agencies. ``People who support their kids, who are involved in their lives of their kids, are better parents, and it helps the children,'' he added. The county is advertising for a director of the new department, to take over for bureau director Wayne Doss. The Encino meeting Saturday was the first of six informational meetings being held on different dates at each of the six regional Family Support offices. At 10 a.m. June 9, parents in the Antelope Valley This article is about the Los Angeles County region. For the census-designated place in Wyoming, see Antelope Valley-Crestview, Wyoming. The Antelope Valley can learn about the change at the bureau's Palmdale office at 1020 E. Palmdale Blvd. While the functioning of the offices will be essentially the same, the new department will see some immediate improvements, Mizrahi said. The state legislation also set up an ombudsman's office to help answer and resolve complaints and an improved call center with more operators to handle parents' calls. The number for the center, which will not change in July, is (800) 615-8858, and can be reached toll-free from any state. The bureau is charged with collecting from parents who have not met their financial obligation to children they don't live with. About half of the county's 575,000 cases - 100,000 of them in the San Fernando Valley San Fernando Valley Valley, southern California, U.S. Northwest of central Los Angeles, the valley is bounded by the San Gabriel, Santa Susana, and Santa Monica mountains and the Simi Hills. - involve collecting from parents using either civil suits or criminal charges and delivering the money directly to the parent who has principal custody of the children. |
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