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}}When a person who is obliged to pay child support fails to pay all of the child support they are required to pay, a debt begins to accumulate. The debt owing is called the payor's ''arrears'' of child support.
People generally have two different goals when arrears begin to mount up. The person responsible for paying support, the ''payor'', likely wants the court to reduce or cancel the arrears, while the person receiving the support, while the ''recipient'', will want the court to force the payor to pay what's owing.
This section provides an introduction to the problem of child support arrears. It also discusses the reduction and cancellation of arrears and how arrears are collected.