It's an ongoing process.
Child support is an ongoing issue and can last a lifetime.
Until and unless a court issues an order finalizing the action and closes the file, you are under constant threat of having your money, wages or commissions, car, bank account, home, licenses or anything else that you own or control, confiscated, with or without prior notice or hearing. You maybe jailed for contempt at anytime when you owe delinquent child support. As the defendant, respondent, payor or obligor, of a child support action, you are under constant threat of lost of liberty and property. Since you are the defendant, respondent, payor or obligor, of a child support action and you are under constant threat of lost of liberty and property you have far more rights than a party in a normal civil action. In other words, since you have potential of going to jail over the current child support order you have the constitutional right to petition the court for hearings to contest the present child support order as often as you want.