Child Support Unique Situation HELP

After a long divorce from my ex wife, she practically manipulated my son out of my life. I went from joint custody to no visitation rights from her lies in court. After years of not seeing or talking to my son with repeated attempts, I offered her husband to adopt my son. Neither one of us needed the pain and suffering any longer. His mother just didn't care. Her husband adopted my son. My child support stopped compounding at around $1200. The debt has just been sitting in their office unpaid. The last time I spoke to my child support worker, they stated there was a liquidation on my social security number. It meant if I got a bank account, child support would seize the account to pay the $1200. I finally won a disability claim I have been fighting for years from Social Security and received a check in the mail for $16,000. First thing I want to do is pay child support off. Problem is, how can I cash a check so large without a bank account? I don't want to get robbed walking around with all that money. If I open a bank account and deposit the check, will child support freeze all $16,000 or will I have time to withdraw money and pay this off? I really need to pay this off so I can finally get a bank account and put the money in a safe, FDIC insured bank.

 

I spoke to a bank manager. She said that Social Security can touch any money in a checking account. Savings they can't levy at all. The funds themselves can't be levied before they are disbursed. But, there's no way to go about cashing this differently. I refuse to let a check cashing store tax the hell out of $16,000.

 

Wow Proserpina, your second comment was very rude. Army Judge, why hire an attorney?