Institutions
Child Support Administration
Handles the establishment and enforcement of child-support obligations, including parent-location and parentage-determination services for child support.
Art. 7(1)(e), (g), (i) ↗ · Sources consulted:Child Support Administration · Administración para el Sustento de Menores · ASUME
Spanish legal name: Administración para el Sustento de Menores. Spanish legal names are retained. Some English names are functional translations.
- Government level
- State-level
- Branch or grouping
- Executive
- Type
- Office
- Sources consulted
- Oct 18, 2026
What it does
- Provides services to locate persons responsible for support and establish parentage when relevant to a support case.Art. 7(1)(e), (g), (i) ↗ · Sources consulted:
- Handles the establishment, modification, and enforcement of support orders through applicable administrative and judicial procedures.Art. 7(1)(e), (g), (i) ↗ · Sources consulted:
- Offers online participant and employer services, compliance certifications, and payment-related inquiries.Online services; Certifications ↗ · Sources consulted:
In everyday life
Someone seeking a compliance certificate should use the official individual or employer service as appropriate. A dispute about a support order requires the case procedure rather than simply downloading a certificate.Certifications ↗Art. 7 ↗ · Sources consulted:
How to distinguish it from other institutions
Child support is a support obligation. It is different from PAN nutrition benefits and TANF assistance administered by ADSEF.Arts. 5–7 ↗Programs ↗ · Sources consulted:
Its administrator is appointed under a different rule from those of ADFAN, ADSEF, and ACUDEN: ASUME’s law provides for gubernatorial appointment with Senate advice and consent.Art. 5 ↗Arts. 6–9 ↗ · Sources consulted:
Official services and information
Confirm requirements, forms, and schedules on the linked official portal.
Where it fits
- Component of: Department of the Family Art. 5 ↗ · Sources consulted:
- Its leadership is appointed by: Office of the Governor Art. 5 ↗ · Sources consulted:
Map groupings support navigation; they do not themselves establish reporting authority.
Leadership & appointments
ASUME administrator
The administration is coordinated and supervised by the Family Department. Its administrator is appointed by the governor with Senate advice and consent and serves at the governor’s discretion.Art. 5 ↗ · Sources consulted:
A name is not published without current verification of the role.
- Appointment
- Verification pending
- Confirmation
- Verification pending
- Term end
- Verification pending
An absent name does not imply a vacancy. Names from the seed report are not automatically treated as current officeholders.
Governance & composition
The law assigns operational leadership to an administrator under the Secretary of the Family’s supervision. This is not a corporate governing-board structure.Art. 5 ↗ · Sources consulted:
Sources consulted: Oct 18, 2026
Sources & method
The consultation date is not the institution’s own update date.
- PR.gov — Administración para el Sustento de Menores ↗https://pr.gov/directorio-de-agencias/administracion-para-el-sustento-de-menores-dpto-familia-4Sources consulted: Oct 17, 2026
- Ley 5-1986 — Ley Orgánica de ASUME (compilación OGP) ↗https://bvirtualogp.pr.gov/ogp/Bvirtual/LeyesOrganicas/Pages/5-1986.pdfSources consulted: Oct 18, 2026
- ASUME — servicios oficiales ↗https://asume.pr.gov/Sources consulted: Oct 18, 2026
- ADSEF — programas y servicios en línea ↗https://serviciosenlinea.adsef.pr.gov/Sources consulted: Oct 18, 2026
- Plan de Reorganización 1-1995 — Departamento de la Familia (compilación OGP) ↗https://bvirtualogp.pr.gov/ogp/Bvirtual/reogGubernamental/PDF/Planes%20de%20Reorganizaci%C3%B3n%20vigentes/1-1995.pdfSources consulted: Oct 18, 2026 · Document revised: Aug 13, 2025