The person who pays child support or the person who gets payments for the child can ask the court to change the amount paid.
Either side can ask the court to change the amount of child support.
The person who wants the court to change the amount of child support must file court papers called a "Rule to Modify Child Support."
The Louisiana Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) has more information and an online
DCFS form you can use to ask a court to change the amount of child support. For more information see the tab on the left of this guide about getting information for your form. The DCFS website page also has information about getting DCFS to help you with changes to child support.
If do not have enough money to pay court fees when you bring your papers to the courthouse, you will also need to file another set of court papers to ask the court to let you go ahead with your case without paying court costs at the start.
These papers are called a motion or application to file "In Forma Pauperis."
There is an online form to fill out the In Forma Pauperis papers. Go here to get the In Forma Pauperis form online on the site of the Supreme Court of Louisiana.
You must also arrange for court papers to be "served" on the person on the other side of the case, and you must "serve" the papers on any state agency, if the agency is involved in your case. There may be a court hearing so the judge can listen to what each side has to say before making a decision.