Payment Instructions:

• Always include the name of the person responsible for making the payment and the case number
• Payment should be made with cash, personal check, money order or credit card
• Personal checks will only be accepted if the payor's current address is shown on the check
• Personal checks will not be accepted after two instances of being returned from the bank as unpaid
• Post-dated checks will not be accepted
• All checks and money orders should be made payable to "Clerk of the Circuit Court" and sent to:
  
  ATTN: Child Support
  Clerk of the Circuit Court
  18 North County Street
  Waukegan IL 60085
  
• Payments may also be made in person at the same location
• An annual fee of $36.00 is assessed in January of each year.  This fee is in addition to and separate from amounts to be paid as child support and/or maintenance.  This payment should be designated as "Child Support Fee" to assure proper accounting credit