Legal Technician​/Case Manager

Job Title: Legal Technician/Case Manager

Salary range: $16.53-$18.78 per hour

Department: Human Services

Hours: Full-Time, 40 hours/week

Applies regulations and procedures to locate absent parents, establishes paternity for children born out of wedlock, establishes child support and medical support orders, modifies existing orders, enforces orders and collects support for non-public assistance and public assistance customers. Legal Technicians learn and apply federal, state and local rules and regulations and court procedures with a moderate degree of independence within the Child Support Services Unit.

Legal Technicians maintain a large caseload.

Essential functions, as defined under the Americans with Disabilities Act, may include any of the following representative duties, knowledge, and skills. This is not a comprehensive listing of all functions and duties performed by incumbents of this class; employees may be assigned duties which are not listed below; reasonable accommodations will be made as required. The job description does not constitute an employment agreement and is subject to change at any time by the employer.

Essential duties and responsibilities may include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Conducts in depth interviews with the custodial parent (CP) to obtain detailed and extremely personal information regarding the identity of the Non-Custodial Parent (NCP); the determination of existing court orders; the whereabouts of the NCP and his/her available assets;
• Interviews NCP and/or their attorneys to obtain information and determine the NCP’s ability to pay child support;
• Reviews information provided by the CP and researches case records to determine current status, legal case history and determines the most appropriate legal procedure applicable, (i.e., driver’s license suspension, judgements, and/or stipulations); prepares garnishment papers and works with employers to ensure follow-up; initiates appropriate paperwork and documents for cases involving interstate actions, interrogatories, income assignments, judgements, garnishments, and contempt actions;
• Prepares legal documentation, i.e. Petitions, Motions, Summons, Bench Warrants, Judgements for District Court presentation;
  Completes case history for the Department’s attorney; presents testimony at court hearings; attends court hearings including those in which previous notice was not given by the courts;
• Assists attorney at court hearings; discusses difficult or irregular cases with attorney; drafts pleadings subsequent to court hearings at the request of attorney (findings of the court, etc.) for the attorney’s approval and judge’s signature. Initiates and receives communication to and from clients, district courts, attorneys, other child support units, public and private agencies.
• Maintains a working knowledge of the Colorado Revised Statutes pertaining to child support establishment and enforcement, the protocol of the courts, the justice system, and legal documents;
• Prepares legal documentation and cases for Administrative Process Actions, which consists of negotiating paternity and support orders and settlements with the NCP; analyzing financial affidavits; negotiating stipulations for child support orders. This process is conducted at the child support office and eliminates the need for the court process;
• Monitors child support payments and follows up when necessary. Includes determining that payments are allocated correctly; monitoring and working reports sent from the State Department; delinquency letters; enforcement actions(i.e. income assignments, garnishments, driver’s license suspension, credit reporting, contempt citations, etc.);
• Negotiates review and…