Parents' Rights and Responsibilities

Legal Representation

• The child support attorney will handle legal issues connected with obtaining and enforcing a child support order. Parents may hire a private attorney if they wish. Parents applying for services should inform their child support agency if they do hire a private attorney.
  
• It is very important that parents understand that child support attorneys who appear at their child support court hearings are there to represent the interests of the State of Wisconsin. Child support attorneys do not represent either parent.
  
• There is no attorney-client relationship between parents and child support attorneys.
  
• Child support attorneys do not handle legal custody and placement issues.

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