Instructions for Letter of Notification

    1. Insert the date you will send this notice. 

    2. Insert the name of the person who pays child support/spousal maintenance and the person's address. 

    3. Fill in the names of the "Petitioner" and the "Respondent" as they appear on your original child support order or divorce decree. They may appear as "Plaintiff" and "Defendant" on your court order. 

    4. Insert the court file number that appears on your original child support court order or divorce decree. (This is the case number you were asked to write on the Cost-of-Living Adjustment Form.) 

    5. Insert the name of the person who pays child support/spousal maintenance. 

    6. Insert the date when your cost-of-living adjustment should become effective. (You must give at least 20 days notice.) 

    7. If the cost-of-living adjustment is mentioned in Appendix A of your order, write "Appendix A."  If it is in your order write "paragraph" followed by the number of the paragraph where the adjustment is mentioned.  If your child support/spousal maintenance order does not contain a cost-of-living adjustment, write "Minnesota Statute 518.641."  If you do this, skip number 8 below and go to instruction number 9.

    8. Insert whether the child support order is part of a "judgement and decree" (which is your divorce document) or from an "order", if you have a child support order issued by the court. 

    9. Insert the amount of child support you are currently entitled to, including how often you receive it (weekly, monthly, etc.) according to your original child support order. 

    10. Insert the new child support amount you calculated in Step 7 on the Cost-of-Living Adjustment Form. 

    11. Insert the same date you used in # 6 above. 

    12. Print and sign your current name here. Include your address. 

    NOTE: When you are done filling out the Letter of Notification, make two photocopies of it. Send one copy to the person who pays you and keep one copy for yourself. File the original with your other child support/spousal maintenance records at the court.

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