Comments on: Nonpayment of Child Support Can Lead to Jail

By: audrianna

audrianna — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 05:47:30 +0000

Have you ever dealth with a non-custodial parent who purposely wuit a well-paying job
to be payed under the table and hide in different states for the last 5 years? Let me tell you, the big punishments sound fine and dandy to me since we (myself and children) have been the ones to pay for his lack of responsibility. NOT losing his license did notihg to him and neither did threats.

By: Julie Crowley

Julie Crowley — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 18:33:02 +0000

I agree completely John, they are setting these non-custodial parents up for failure with the current system. Tacking on more money while restricting the ways the parent can earn money just doesn’t make any sense.

It also makes me wonder how the non-custodial parent would be able to visit his or her children when they are hit with their license being taken away. As well as all the extra working hours that the non-custodial parent will have to do in order to catch up on back payments. The whole thing seems to be a lose lose situation, except of course for the government agency who is collecting all of those fees…

By: John

John — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 20:30:47 +0000

The big consequenses for non payers sound a lot like ‘If a little bit is good, a lot has got to be more better’. Wages can be guaranshied, assets seized, etc. When the system does things that directly limit the deadbeat’s ability to make an income, like tagging him with a felony, or taking his drivers liscense, this becomes opening the goose to get the golden eggs.

If he can’t get a good paying job, all the incentive in the world won’t help get the support payments paid. Zinging the guy may feel really good to the custodial parents, but they and the child pay for such a poorly thought out approach. John