(Franklin County, IN) – Franklin County’s Chris Huerkamp is joining fellow prosecutors, the Indiana Department of Child Services/Child Support Bureau and child support services agencies throughout the country in recognizing August as Child Support Awareness Month.
Huerkamp says he wants to increase awareness about existing child support services provided by his office, which he says are vital to custodial parents and guardians providing for children.
“Our child support staff can help with determining paternity, establishing and modifying child support and medical support/health insurance orders, calculating past due child support, locating parents, collecting and disbursing child support and providing other related services essential to the well-being of Indiana’s children,” Huerkamp said.
This full range of prosecutor-provided services is available to all Indiana parents and guardians, free of charge.
“As your prosecutor, I take the issue of children’s well-being seriously and the collection of child support payments can help families maintain badly-needed economic stability. My office stands ready to continue to ensure parents provide financial security for their children,” Huerkamp said. “We hope that families can become more aware of the services that we provide and to utilize them.”
The Indiana child support program, carried out locally by the county prosecutors, serves more than 200,000 families statewide.
In 2025, the Franklin County Prosecutor’s Office, with the assistance of the Franklin County Clerk’s Office, collected and distributed over $1.43 million to families involved in local cases.
For more information about child support services, call the Franklin County Prosecutor’s Child Support office at (765) 647-0644, or the Child Support Bureau’s KIDSLINE at (800) 840-8757, or (317) 233-5437.
Parents can enroll in child support services free of charge in person at the Prosecutor’s Office or online at https://csbwebapps.dcs.in.gov/IVDEnrollmentFormSite/.
Contact information for every county prosecutor’s child support office and general information about child support is also available at https://www.in.gov/dcs/child-support/contact-us/local-child-support-offices/.
