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Legal Information: Arkansas

Child Support

Laws current as of November 6, 2024

Who can file for child support?

Arkansas allows for any of the following people to request child support:

  1. the custodial parent;
  2. any person or agency with physical custody of the child;
  3. a minor child through his/her guardian or another adult who is not a relative but who has strong ties to the child (“fictive kin”);
  4. a child over 18 years old to whom support was owed while s/he was a minor; or
  5. the Office of Child Support Enforcement when the parent, putative father, or person with physical custody, is receiving assistance under certain governmental programs or is receiving child support services.1

1 Ark. Code § 9-14-105

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