Passport Denial Program and California Department of Child Support Services

Periodically the question is asked by other attorneys and case participants, “How can a passport be taken because child support arrears are owed? How do I/my client get the passport back?” This video will discuss the procedure for DCSS taking a passport and giving it back. Jessica Ryan Keeney is licensed to practice law in the State of California. She is the Department of Child Support Services (aka DCSS) attorney for two small, rural California counties. She has practiced family law since December of 2009 when she was sworn in as an attorney in California. Before that she worked as a law student for a family law attorney starting in the end of her second year of law school until she graduated from law school (it was a four-year law school program). She was a City Attorney for a small rural city in California for just shy of 5 years. This video discusses the Passport Denial Program and how DCSS can “take a passport” when child support arrears are owed. A more detailed write up can be found on Jessica’s web site at: https://jessicaryankeeneylaw.com/* This writeup includes citations for the sources used in drafting the writeup and making the video. This video is not legal advice. This is for educational purposes only. Neither Jessica Ryan Keeney nor Lassen County Department of Child Support Services nor anyone else can guarantee or be responsible for the outcome of your case. Although the following links are not mentioned in this video, they link to information that is often helpful in IV-D child support and family law matters. Copies of California Judicial Council forms can be found at https://www.courts.ca.gov/formname.htm. Date Time Calculator is available at https://www.timeanddate.com/date/date... CSDA Attorney Sourcebook, AKA DCSS Sourcebook, AKA Child Support Bible can be purchased at: https://csdaca.org/product-category/p... California Statutes Including the Family Code: https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/fa... California Child Support Services: childsupport.ca.gov Lassen County Department of Child Support Services: http://lassencounty.org/dept/departme... For more resources visit Jessica Ryan Keeney’s web page at: https://jessicaryankeeneylaw.com/reso...