The race to collect back child support from deadbeat parents who refuse to pay has been going on all year long, but it seems that once Texas announced it's astounding success in their collection of past due child support, other states are stepping up their game in an attempt to 'keep up with the Jones'.' Summit County, located in Colorado, has found a way to turn the tables and get the deadbeat parents to come to them, instead of having to hunt the parents down.

This week, ten billboards will be put up throughout... more

While deadbeat dads are usually the ones who are in the headlines, taking all of the heat for non-custodial parents who fail to pay their court ordered child support, the tables have finally turned, if only for a brief moment in time, and deadbeat moms are making some headlines of their own.

And these moms are not just a tad behind in their child support, they have failed to keep in contact with the system, show up for court, and basically ignore every step of the process, digging themselves into financial holes upwards of $50,000. One woman, now living in the state of... more

Three pizzerias in Ohio have decided to think outside the [pizza] box and help find parents who don’t pay their child support. Instead of attaching a poster of coupons to the pizza box as so many establishments do these days, they are attaching a poster of a different kind, a wanted poster. Ten different deadbeat parents are featured on the poster, pictures along with last known addresses, followed by a toll free number, a tip line if you will, for pizza lovers to call in if they have any information regarding one of the faces on the poster.

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Below is an older article that I found from the FoxNews.com website. It brings up an often overlooked fact when it comes to stepparent adoptions, as well as divorce and custody situations. Moms can be deadbeat parents just as easily as dads can be. Dads are the ones who are portrayed in the media as the parent who is most often the one to skip out on his child or children financially, when statistics show that a higher percentage of moms do not pay their child support, than dads do.

When many people think of a stepparent adoption, they often think right away of... more

After his divorce, Daniel Wade Nash, a father of two little girls, fled the state of South Carolina. Nash was able to hide from authorities for more than thirteen years, admitted Sheriff James Metts, in a press release. In 1992 a bench warrant had been issued for Nash, after his failure to pay child support, as well as his other court ordered payments to his ex-wife. Nash got married again in 1996, in the state of Alabama, changed his name, and began living under his new alias in order to avoid paying the court ordered support for his children.

Nash, who owes... more

Although Circuit Court Judges have jailed parents for not paying court ordered child support in the past, for the first time ever in Saginaw County history, a judge has sentenced a man to prison for failure to pay his child support. Circuit Judge Fred L. Borchard ordered 40-year-old John M. Kohn to serve one year and five months to four years behind bars, for his failure to financially support his three children aged 6,8, and 10. Court records show that Kohn is $15,177 in arrears.

Since he and his former wife, Kimberly Kohn, divorced in 2003, she has stated... more

It seems as though one’s status in the community does not exclude them from the growing numbers of parents who are failing to financially support their children. U.S. Attorney Terrance P. Flynn announced that a former Buffalo television reporter, one Winston L. Brown was sentenced on Monday, by U.S. District Judge Hugh B. Scott, to five years of probation, in order to repay his grand sum of $64,039.07 owed in back child support.

Brown, who is 56, has been convicted of one count of failure to pay child support for his three minor children, after he plead... more