Hamilton County has a new tool to get cash out of deadbeat parents who don't pay their child support. Child support enforcement officers can freeze money in a parent's checking or savings account if they fall behind on the payments. The new program will start in January.

        Freezing money in an account will happen only when:

        • The amount owed is more than $500.

        • The default is 60 days or more.

        • The deduction won't reduce checking accounts below $2,000 or take a savings account to zero.

        • It is a one-person account.

        “This seems like a pretty strong arrow in the quiver,” Commissioner Tom Neyer said.

        Lora Jollis, assistant director for the county's Department of Job and Family Services, said there will be a 10-day “due process” period before seizing money from an account. The hope is that people will pay up under the threat of seizure.

        “The goal here is to get it paid,” Ms. Jollis said. “If the threat is enough to loosen up some cash, that makes sense.”

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