Who may apply to the head of the Performance Management Agency for legal support, and what must be true of the child support claim before each route opens?
General information · Not legal advice
Material to check
In a practice file, we read the application to the head of the Performance Management Agency, the paper showing the applicant is the parent raising the child, and — for a later application — the written agreement or court judgment fixing the support together with any record of missed payments.
These are types of material to look for, not evidence already verified by PRO SE.
Where readings differ
One reading keeps the two applications apart: a parent raising a child may seek legal support securing an enforceable child support title — representation in a paternity or child support claim — where no fixed support yet exists, while the obligee may apply only where support fixed by agreement or judgment has not been received from the obligor.
Another reading notes that the provision names the actor and the predicate but not the file that proves them: it says the obligee may apply where fixed support is not received, and leaves to the implementing ordinance of the gender equality and family ministry the target, method and procedure of applying.
Your judgment
What in a file shows whether the support has already been fixed by agreement or judgment, so that the later route rather than the first applies?
PRO SE does not make this decision or keep a case record on this public site.When to reconsider
We look again if the provision is amended to change who may apply or the predicate for each route, or if a decision or the implementing ordinance defines what counts as support not received.