Form FL-632 at a glance
What it is: Form FL-632, Notice Regarding Payment of Support (Governmental), is used to tell the parents and the court when the local child support agency is or is not enforcing support orders in this case.
Notary: No acknowledgment is required when this form is recorded by a local child support agency.
A filled-in Form FL-632 example: the agency gives notice of a substituted payee
How to fill out Form FL-632, box by box
The parent ordered to pay support and the person ordered to receive it
Mark who the parent ordered to pay support is: Petitioner, Respondent or Other Parent/Party (specify name and address).
Mark who the person ordered to receive support is: Petitioner, Respondent or Other Parent/Party (specify name and address, if parent is payee).
The substituted payee
The substituted payee is: a. The local child support agency (specify name and address); b. Other (specify name and address).
Enforcement services in this case
The local child support agency is providing the following enforcement services in this case (check all that apply): (1) Current support; (2) Back support (arrears) owed to the parent listed in Item 1b; (3) Back support (arrears) owed for public assistance paid by the county; (4) Medical support.
If box b is marked: The local child support agency is no longer providing any enforcement services in this case.
Where payments must be sent
Payments collected by an Income Withholding Order must be sent to: California State Disbursement Unit, P.O. Box 989067, West Sacramento, CA 95798-9067.
All payments, other than income withholding payments, must be sent to (check all that apply): California State Disbursement Unit listed in Item 4a, Person listed in Item 1b, by Type of support: Current support; Back support (arrears) owed to the person listed in Item 1b; Back support (arrears) owed for public assistance paid by the county; Other (specify).
Public assistance and the county
If the box is marked: One of the parents has applied for and received public assistance for the children. This means that under California law they gave away (assigned) their right to receive support, while aid is being paid, to the county of (specify).
Notice to a lienholder and recording
The substituted payee must be contacted when notice to a lienholder may or must be given.
An abstract or notice of support judgment or support judgment was recorded in the County, with Date of recording, Instrument number, Book number and Page number.
Date and signature
Write the Date, then the (TYPE OR PRINT NAME) and (SIGNATURE).
Acknowledgment when this form is recorded by a person or entity other than a local child support agency
Acknowledgment: to be completed when this form is recorded by a person or entity other than a local child support agency.
Name the county after STATE OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF; after On, before me, (here insert name and title of the officer) personally appeared.
More rules for Form FL-632
If item 3b is checked, no matters should be heard by a child support commissioner. The following matters should be heard by a child support commissioner, unless one is not available due to exceptional circumstances (Fam. Code, §§ 4250-4252): A request to modify ongoing child support, if Item 3a(1) is checked; a request to determine back support (arrears) if item 3a(2) or 3a(3) is checked; and a request regarding medical support if item 3a(4) is checked.
A notary public or other officer completing this certificate verifies only the identity of the individual who signed the document to which this certificate is attached, and not the truthfulness, accuracy, or validity of that document.
Sources
[1] Form FL-632 (Rev. September 1, 2024), Notice Regarding Payment of Support (Governmental), Judicial Council of California (the Official source link on this page).