As a Child Support Specialist you may be required to take actions that conflict with your own values. A Child Support Specialist must be able to accept clients' differences and interact with them in a non-judgmental manner. Some of the controversial issues encountered in a Child Support environment include:

• Enforcing mandatory guideline child support orders that may not seem reasonable
• Attaching the wages of non-custodial parents who then allege they will not be able to support their current family
• Negatively impacting a non-custodial parent's credit rating
• Intercepting state and federal tax returns
• Revoking driver's licenses, required employment and professional licenses, and passports
• Clients who do not wish to be cooperative
• Clients in a highly emotional or irate mental state
• Custodial parents involved in Welfare fraud
• Clients who are domestic violence victims
• Clients with felony convictions
• Homeless individuals and families
• Clients whose life style, culture, and/or values may be significantly different than your own
• Mandatory reporting of child and adult abuse