Last week I wrote about a town in Texas that has already collected 4 million dollars in delinquent child support, well my friends Texas certainly has not stopped there! Going with the notion that everything truly is bigger in Texas, another county, McLennan, has collected a staggering and record breaking 24.8 million dollars in back child support, bringing the state of Texas to a record amount of...are you ready for this...2.3 billion dollars. That is not a typo folks, I wrote billion and I meant it!

It seems as though the state of Texas has been quite diligent in going after its offenders and has done an outstanding job of getting deadbeat parents to cough up what is owed to their children. In McLennan County alone, the constable are doing their best to keep up with the 19,000 child support cases, sometimes serving an average of one hundred civil papers per week!

However they have managed to divide this enormous work load amongst the constables seems to be working, and quite well at that, and the Attorney General's Office commended the county workers for their record breaking achievement of 24.8 million dollars collected.

It is important to keep in mind that it is not always the father whom is the deadbeat parent, and that moms too can skip out on their child support payments. Many fathers now are gaining custody of their children after a divorce and it is the mother who refuses to support her child, and not the stereo typical 'deadbeat dad' that we tend to think of when non-payment of child support comes to mind.

And while Texas is sure as heck happy with their accomplishments, they are by no means finished with their hunt for deadbeat parents. If the driver's license suspension, bank asset and income tax seizures don't get you, the jail time most certainly will.

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