Time in prison is just one of many possible consequences of failing to pay your child support. Recently I came across this on the U.S. Department of State website which states that if you are behind on “child support payments in excess of $2,500, you are ineligible to receive a U.S. passport. If this applies to you, Passport Services strongly recommends that you contact the appropriate State child support enforcement agency to make payment arrangements before applying for a passport.” While I was in a sporting good store recently I witnessed a man being turned down for a hunting license, thanks to a new State mandated computer system that all licensees must adhere to. He was denied the hunting license because he is behind on child support. So you can’t hunt, fish, or even leave the country. It’s also been brought to my attention that the government can withold child support payments from your tax refund! Feel free to leave comments or questions at the end of this article.
In research for this article I interviewed my Aunt, whom was a Child Support Enforcement Officer. Since 1985 she was an Employee of the State of Mississippi but her position is funded by a Federal Program which insures that parents receiving government aid are financially assisted by the state mandated wage garnishment, of the non custodial parent. These were time limited positions for child support enforcement.
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The majority of her time was spent in determining paternity. This is how it works. The mother gives a name, or five names (in some cases), and child support enforcement sets off to locate the potential fathers. Once an address is obtained for these men, a letter is sent instructing them to come to the appropriate location for a paternity test. Sometimes married men (or their wives), received these letters. Once in the office the potential father could accept paternal responsibilities. This was a rare occurrence. Normally the potential father would ‘deny’ that he is the father.
DNA Testing
DNA testing used to require the withdrawing of blood, but more recently ‘swabbing‘ has been used. The baby, mother, and potential are all swabbed to obtain a sample of their DNA. The DNA is then sent off to a laboratory and analyzed. The mothers DNA ‘markers’ are noted and then subtracted from the DNA of the baby. The remaining DNA should be a match with the real father.
Once Paternity is established, the father’s wages were assessed. There were guidelines for how much a father will pay. It’s based on a percentage of his income per child. If the father doesn’t have a job then the judge would set the child support based on a minimum wage job, at 40 hours per week.
Divorces
Mississippi passed a law in the 1990′s (which is often ignored) which states that all divorces involving children must have a child support withholding order. A form would then be filled out by a Child Support Enforcement Officer and mailed to the employer of the non custodial parent. This was a wage garnishment form designed to help the government insure that babies in Mississippi are being taken care of. Also, if the custodial parent is on some form of government assistance like Medicaid or Welfare, there is a state law which mandates the withholding order. This one is strictly enforced.
Licenses
Besides not being able to obtain a hunting or fishing license. You could also be denied a Drivers License when you stand in line for one of these. My Aunt relayed a story about a certain lawyer that would never pay his child support. The only way they could get him to pay was to threaten to remove his license to practice law. The Child Support Officer could use the same threats with a medical doctor. The ability to disrupt the lives of the non custodial parent seems to have no boundaries.
What if you leave the state?
Leaving the state won’t help you avoid paying child support. You may prolong it, but you can’t avoid it by skipping the state. Thanks to the Uniform Reciprocal Enforcement and Support Act, your arrest warrant for failure to pay child support follows you anywhere in the United States. For example, one of the arrest warrants my Aunt had issued resulted in a man being arrested in California. He was driving a tractor trailer loaded with produce. Although this was a routine traffic stop, once the man’s license was entered into the police computer, his warrant for failure to pay child support in Mississippi popped up. He was arrested and his employer’s produce sat in the hot California sun, spoiling before making it to market.
How you are tracked
The government tracks its citizens thanks to a few interconnected circumstances. This tracking is made possible by your Social Security Number, which is really how the government sees its citizens. Using your Social Security Number to obtain employment, results in a W-2 being issued to the I.R.S.. Large companies have to report this information every three months. Smaller companies may only report this information at the end of the year. Thanks to the Homeland Security Act, this process most likely alerts them as well. But the end result is that a Child Support Officer knows where you are, and if they’re aggressive, you’ll be arrested.
Time in jail
Time in jail is only pursued if the Child Support Officer has a father or mother who refuses to cooperate. You won’t go to jail if you are trying to pay your child support (actually paying, not just talking about paying). Once the Officer feels that they have wasted enough time trying to get you to pay, they have a warrant issued to bring you before a judge. Sometimes they may just lure you to the court with a subpoena, without mentioning that you’re going to be arrested when you arrive. My Aunt relayed a heart breaking story of having to place a mother in jail who wouldn’t keep a job and pay her child support. Since the split with her previous husband this woman had given birth to another child. Inside the courtroom, the mother was placed in handcuffs and escorted to jail, leaving her one year old behind crying.
Once in jail, you’re stuck there until you get a job. Now I know this sounds crazy, but my Aunt said that you couldn’t leave jail until you could prove that you had a job. Normally family members took care of this obligation for their incarcerated loved ones. The Child Support Officer actually does the legal writing. They have a lawyer at their assistance that really does nothing more than just sign whatever gets placed in front of their face. So your life of freedom is really in the hands of the Child Support Officer.
The squeaky wheel gets the oil
My Aunt said she averaged carrying around 800 ‘cases’ at any one time. Also, she would only make appearances in court once a month. So she would try and accomplish all she could on that day. She made it very obvious, in our conversation, that the custodial parents who were the most assertive with her, took priority over people who compained little. So if your Ex loves the idea of harassing you, expect to hear from the Child Support Enforcement Officer often.
Oh yeah, I almost forgot, it’s of no consequence for the female to have you in court as often as she’d like. The judge always makes the man pay the court costs.
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I have two children with a man that is always in some kind of trouble. This past year he was placed in a court program called drug court to help him clean up his life. Part of the program is that he is required to have a job. Of course he doesn’t have a job. It’s been four years since our court order was finalized and in four years he has made 11 payments. The kicker about the whole thing is he was only ordered to pay 75 bucks a week for two children! I get $75 a week for my oldest son and his dad pays it with no problem so I don’t see why it is so hard for the two younger ones dad to pay his child support. He lives with his mom so he has no bills to speak of. He claims to be broke and have nothing but yet every time I see him he is wearing new clothes (stuff I see in the mall!) and is always getting new tattoos. The reason I get so upset is because I know if it was me that had to the pay the child support and I was $11,577.00 behind I would be in jail! I don’t want him to pay his child support because I want the money. I want him to pay his child support for his children! It is just as much his responsibility as it is mine!
@ Lisa B..the same thing happened to me only I didn’t have a career to fall on. On the contrary that is when I started fighting and finding a career with the federal government. I have been fighting ever since. I recently got married again and had another baby. I always go back to the way I found and chose to marry my first husband. You will be surprised it does not matter what great qualities we have. We we all were born to live out a purpose. If you write down the way you chose your husband and what kind of man he was you may find out how you got here. Of course you are a good mother but your judgement of character like most of us women can be slighted especially when your expertise is in the career field you chose. Because you are part of the system it will be a long while before you may come to peace with somethings. Start focusing on your spirituality and not the pain that you have been caused. Change your focus no matter what is in front of you and then and only then will you have peace. You are not in control of anything but what you choose to do. Think about changing your focus and everything will fall in place.
we all know that there are women out there in the world that only file child support on their baby daddy to catch them or keep them with them…its understandable but come on …if he dont love you …he dont love you …i know people going through this where the man is happily married with a wife and kids and the ex girl has filed child support on him…she said she will take the child support off if he leaves his wife and kids to go with HER ! THATS CRAZY AND REALLY MEST UP ….I DONT AGREE AT ALL WITH CHILD SUPPORT!!!!!!!!!
“My 6 year old’s son is a complete waste. He has a record of about 5 different things, 3 dui’s, some bank issues, and recently a felony of stealing $3,800 from a grocery store he was a manager at. Needless to say, he can’t keep or find a job. He is close to $5,000 owed to me in back child support, he kept changing jobs and has lied about his jobs… we never went to court for visitation, etc… but we have worked out that he can take his son every other weekend… which he rarely follows through with… he either claims he has to “work”, or he can’t afford the gas to meet me halfway, or he has to “babysit” his other daughter from another woman. His mom and stepdad have been covering for his ass to help me out and would send me money from time to time. He is over 2 months behind on his child support, and to the best of my knowledge is not working. I am so sick of his crap and not taking responsibility! He is 33 years old going on 6. My son is more mature than he is!!! How rediculous is that??? If anyone has anything to add I am all ears!!”
wow so your 6 year old son is one screwed up kid. he had a kid that is a crazy person. they are both so bad that it make you butthurt. your son he found fountain of youth, but he still had his puberty so he still can knock up girls…… six year old looking person knowcking up girls making crazy people….
SOUNDS AWSOME!
I just had a baby and the dad will not own up so we are getting a peternity test and he willl have too pay child support! i dont think it is fair that he does not help! he is also dating a 16 year old girl and he is 18! And even when they order him to pay i know he wont so all these consiquenses make me feel a lot better
Ok. I am a registered nurse with a BSN. I put myself through college by working 3 jobs. I waited to have children until I had my schooling completed and my career on the road. This advice was given to me by my very smart Grannie. Now, I married after I graduated and started working full time at the hospital I worked at during nursing school. I am years into my career and have 2 beautiful children. I make great money and love my work. But a few years ago, my life took a horrible turn for the worse and spiraled downward in a way that I never thought my life direction would take. My husband of 10 years-father of my children, was having an affair with the neighbor. This was going on for over a year. I was so busy with work and the kids and LIFE- because he went parttime- LAZY A$$ that I really missed a lot of clues. At any rate, a huge messy divorce ensued as a result of this affair. This divorce was nasty and took about 2 years to complete. He never admitted to the affair, but ended up moving out of my home and into a rental duplex and shortly after that she moved in with him. (She WAS married too) She then annouced that she was pregnant with his baby. He was forcing her to get an abortion. Oh yea, did I say that we were not even divorced yet. She was not going to get an abortion so he pushed her down and around several times until she lost the baby. She filed for domestic violence charges and moved out. blah blah blah.. there is so much that has happened, I really dont care to go there anymore. The bottom line I want to share is this….. because of my hard work and success in my career, I was court ordered to pay child support to the tune of $1278/mon for 2 kids (ages 6 and 8 at the time). Spent thousands in mediation to listen to him lie to the mediator of what a great dad he was- just to gain JOINT custody. Child support is being removed from my paycheck every two weeks. The kicker is that he is now living back with his mother and has all three children living in one bedroom. (my 2 plus my 13y/o stepdaughter). This is new inforamtion I have received this weekend and I have a letter drafted out to my lawyer that I will be sending in the morning. I have gotten nothing but a huge raw deal. lawyers, mediation, bills, wage garnishments, bank account frozen, Some day, when all this is truly OVER i know that he will have to answer to a higher power. Unitl then, I think his job on earth is to make mine a living hell. Im not sure why. I love my children and have given them anything they ever wanted in life. I raised his daughter from 2 months old who is now 13. I have given my family everything.. home- food-clothes- vacations-toys-everything was because of me. I just want to do the right thing for the kids, but if he cant afford his own place after receiving that much in child support…… I dont even have words for the rest of the statement. Thanks y’all for listening. Any uplifting comments or ideas would be appreciated. Id really like to speak to other females that are in the situation as well. Nothing against the guys, Id love to talk to you too, but it just seems horrible to me that a MALE (cant call him a MAN) would take child support from the mother of his children with no regard for how hard i have worked in life. Its disgusting to me. I have spent so much in lawyer fees that I dont care to speak to another lawyer again. My lawyers practice/procedure is to withdrawal after final paperwork is filed. I dont want to start over, but certainly dont want to get walked all over again.
I feel really sorry for the non custodial parents out there who are trying. Most don’t realize how important just putting forth effort can show a huge difference between the type of person they are. Unfortuantely I have been dealing with a non custodial parent who does not try at all for over six years. It has been a struggle dealing with a parent who does not care at all. He has been sent to jail many times (5) and still refuses to pay anything unless he gets sent to jail, then his wonderful family foots the bill so he can get out of jail. But that is the only time I receive payments. My son wanted to meet him a year ago, which I understood because my son has never known him, so after tracking him down and telling him that my six year old son wanted to meet him, his answer was that he was not ready for that. It hardend my sons heart with hatred toward a man he has never known.
Six months afterward I go to court just to hear that he has another child on the way. I was shocked. That has been over a year ago and we are due in court again in a month. Honestly, I am tired of the back and forth and the same results. I go to school full time and work to keep me and my sons heads above water. Not only is providing for children expensive but it is also very hard for my son to be in school and us struggling with money. I am at wits end with this dead beat sperm donar and do not know what else to do. I am almost ready to give up on it because it is so hard to continue fighting for nothing. I know in my heart that it isn’t for nothing, its for my son and what he deserves, but it feels like I’m fighting a losing battle. Any advice would be appreciated.
Kim is a perfect example of whats wrong with this system, unfeeling unending greed. No remorse or any shred of human compassion, just ignorant greed. Sad. Do us all a favor and off yourself.
I feel if father or mother makes kids and does not stay with each other which ever one leave should pay no matter what problems they have. If one is remarried their spouse is say yes to everything that comes with that person including child support. So i feel theres no need to be mad about having to support a kid you brought into this world. Deal with it.
Not for nothing my husband has to pay two child support orders. we have a child of our own that we can barely buy clothes for. i don’t like how people on here say ” well the father should have not got remarried” . so its ok for the ex female spouse to get remarried ?? me and my husband and daughter live in Massachusetts we have to pay health care and all other taxes!! husband goes to school to obtain a degree because he just got out of military and he can not find employment that will make as much with out a degree. if he didn’t go to school he would not be able to even pay his child support at all. and i ant work because how am i going to afford day care for our daughter!!? some one tell me that ?? i just don’t get how this system works they need to come up with something better its so awful . and not to mention we tried to do a modification and what we were told was ” we cut funding ” and we prob would not look at your case for a year.. so that’s my husbands fault?? really wake up people we need to get a new president and a better child support system cause all these father and even mothers are getting screwed left and right and can not pay bills and are loosing homes!
If you can’t make enough money to support two households i.e. on disability, can’t find a job because they took your license ect. your life is over. They will throw you into the system and you will go to jail over and over. I’ve contemplated suicide many times, you’d be surprised how many lower class non-custodial parents have died this way. Shame on all the heartless greedy stereotypers and corrupt politicians and law makers that condemn low income people who can’t overcome the hardships you put on us. It is my wish that somehow, in some way you all pay for what you have done.
A person who can only earn 5k a year shouldn’t be treated the same way as someone who makes 100k a yr and won’t pay. Their reasons are different. SHAME ON ALL OF YOU!!!!!
I think it’s both parties fault. I also think the system is biased. That’s why even though I’m a single mom struggling I told the state to shove it when they tried to make me get child support. And I allow my daughter’s father to see her as he pleases as long as he gives me a 24 hour notice of when he would like to. I don’t like big brother as is…government isn’t going to tell me how to live my life.
Wow….some of these people are beyond despicable. The woman has all the choice and therefore should be solely responsible for the child?!?! seriously? What a piece of crap you are! You had a choice too you lowlife! Wrap it up! Better yet, go get your butt sterilized because this world definitely doesn’t need you reproducing :p gag me. Its garbage like that that explains why our country is is in the condition it is. Sad. It is a shared thing, both made the mistake and an innocent child shouldn’t be murdered by abortion because you couldn’t be bothered to take responsibility for yourself and put a condom on…they give them away for free! And for the guys who think the kid should be with them half of the year…I get it. It makes sense it really does and in some situations that can happen, but you have to think about what that is going to do to your child if it isn’t a perfect situation for it to work. They are constantly moving around and if you aren’t in the same area then they are going to different schools…kids need stability and security and its not fair to them to have to do this and God forbid you mean that 6 months on and 6 months off because that isn’t fair to parent or child to be separated from one parent for that amount of time. With all that said, I have to agree, the system blows BIG TIME and it isn’t fair or right to everyone, but unfortunately some losers ruin it for everyone. My oldest daughters dad is an awesome day, we fortunately have a situation where we are still friends and we live close and we do share her 50% if the time and we share all of her expenses and we were able to do it without court interference. Then I get pregnant by the man that i have been dating the last 3 years and he decides to take off. I lose my job after having my baby and decide to go after him because he hasn’t even so much as called. I file for temporary emergency help from the state which was a joke anyways, and guess who gets the shaft, the good dad who has always taken care of his responsibility and not the loser that took off! How is that fair?! I mean we fought the assignment of child support they imposed on him because he does have her 50% of the time and because he keeps her during the day while I’m at work and I have her at night while he works, it isn’t considered 50/50 unless he has her half of the nights of the week….WTF?!?! seriously! so he is paying back the emergency money I had to get from the state while the loser that walked out is just missing and doesn’t have an order for child support against him yet. I’m working on trying to get the money back to him because it is so unfair and he is being a good sport about it. I also know plenty of people that use their kids (men and women) to shaft the ex and its ugly…I don’t support that either. And for you douchebags that think women who receive child support are lazy and living off of it…do any of you know how much it costs to support a child? I mean seriously, lets just count the stuff specific to a baby/child and not even include the cost housing and utilities…I mean get real…she isn’t getting a free ride with your sad little 400 a month and for those that have to pay more than that, maybe you should get a better attorney. Child support is figured by both parents income and they can never take more than half of your check. BUT I have known people that get screwed over by the amount and it isn’t always easy to get a reduction. So, again, not every case is fair. And if they get a chunk of money because you were a bum for 6 years and didn’t pay child support and she goes and spends some of it on herself, that is her right…she paid the entire upkeep of the child for 6 years, paying your portion…so really you are paying her back for taking on the full responsibility. Are some women irresponsible? Hell yes! Absolutely. But it isn’t fair to generalize women saying they are all lazy and money hungry. Some of us love our children and only want what is best for them. Are all men loser dead beat dads and they get what they deserve from the state or child support services? No, a lot of men get the shaft and it isn’t fair. I have one of each sadly. I hate seeing my first daughters dad getting the shaft but you better believe I hope my baby’s dad gets every license he has taken away and goes to jail. I don’t care if I never see a dime from him, but he doesn’t get to get off scott free from his responsibilities and I hope he rots in jail. More people need to put the welfare of the child first. Men and women alike.
HI,I HAVE A 8 YEAR OLD DAUGHTER,HAVENT SEING HER FOR ALMOST A YEAR,5 YEAR AGO GOT DIAGNOSED WITH SCHIZOPRENIA AND MAYOR DEPPRESSION WITH PSICHO THOUGS,BROUGT EVIDENCE OF THIS DIAGNOSED TOGETHER WITH LETTERS OF MY DOCTORS OF MI CONDITION. ALSO BROUGHT EVIDENCE FROM PUBLIC ASSISTANCE CERTIFING TATH I WAS RECIVING THIS BENEFITS FOR THE SIMPLE REASON TATH I WAS SICK.THE CITY OF NEW YORK ACEPTED THAT I WAS SICK,BUT,THE NEW YORK COURT SISTEM,COULDNT DEAL WITH IT.THEY FORCED ME THE GET MONEY FOR MY DAUGTHER EVEV DO THE BABY MOM ALWAYS HAD A GOOD JOB. SINCE MY DAUGTHER WAS 4 YEARS OLD I HAVE BEING FORCED TO GET $180 PLUS$100 FOR ARREARS!I GOT TO A POINT THAT I COULDNT DEAL WITH IT,AND GOT ADMITTED ON A PSICHIATRIC HOSPITAL. NOT ENOUGH STEEL FORCED TO PAY THE SAME AMOUNT.PICKED UP ALUMINUM CANS TO BRING MONEY,ALSO GOT TO GAMBLE AND HIT THE WIN 4 LOTTERY IN NEW YORK AND BROUGHT THE MONEY TO COUR,$400.GOT A LOAN FROM A FRIEND$1500GIVE IT TO BABY MOM THRU CHILD SUPPORT UNIT! WHEN COURT FIND OUT ABOUT IT! THE JUDGE ASK ME WHERE DID I GOT TATH MONEY FROM TOLD HIM A LOAN FROM A FRIEND ALSO BROUGHT A NOTORIZED LETTER STATING IT.TH JUDGE TOLD ME TO KEEP ON GETING THE SAME AMOUNT$280 A WEEK!ASK HIM HOW?ANSWER ME GET ANOTHER FRIEND! ITS UNBELIEVABLE! WELL,NOW FACING ON JANUARY 25 2012 UP TO 6 MONTHS OF JAIL FOR THE SIMPLE REASON TATH AS A CONSECUENCE OF SO MUCH STRESS FROM COURT SISTEM,I DECIDE ONE DAY TO TRY WORK AS A SLEFEMPLOYED PERSON AND DID A LITTLE JOB FOR A FRIEND!BUT I DIDNT KNEW THAT THE SAME DAY AN INVESTIGATION,THE PRIVATE INVESTIGATOR TOOK PICTURES OF ME DOING A LIOTTLE JOB,AND NOW IM ACUSSED OFCOMTENT AGAINST THE COURT!PROOVED THAT THE MONEY I DID ON THAT LITTLE JOB I BROUGT IT TO COURT,STILL SENTENCED TO UP TO 6 MONTHS!
I find it funny how everyone is blaming the mother..but it takes two to tango. Guys a condom is your firm of birth control. Besides all you have to do is shoot it in and your done, women have it for 9 months. Both parties should be held responsible.
I AM A MOM OF 3 WHO HAS TO PAY CHILD SUPPORT.WAS PAYING IN FULL AND ON TIME FOR 3 YEARS. HAD TWO JOBS.CHILD SUPPORT WAS TAKEN FROM BOTH JOBS.WHEN MY CHILD SUPPORT WAS BEING PAYED OVER THE AMOUNT COURT ORDER. CHILD SUPPORT WAS SENDING ME CHECKS BACK FOR $200.FOR FOUR MONTHS.THEN I LOST MY JOB IN AUG 2011 AND IAM NOW BEHIND $2100.AND THEY WANT TO PUT ME IN JAIL.I JUST GOT CALLED FOR A JOB THAT I CAN START TOMMROW.BUT I HAVE TO PAY $766. IN ONE LUMP SUM FOR THEM NOT TO PUT ME IN JAIL.THAT I DON’T HAVE.SO WHAT ABOUT THE JOB THAT COULD PUT BE BACK ON TRACK PAYING CHILD SUPPORT. IT DON’T HELP IF IAM SITTING IN JAIL.SOMEBODY HELP ME UNDERSTAND WHAT IS GOING ON.
What many of the men here fail to realize is THEY HAVE REPRODUCTIVE CHOICE too. Nobody forced you to put your sperm in a fertile woman. Wear a condom! Get surgery! Take responsibility. If you ‘choose’ either on purpose or by being careless – to make babies suck it up and deal with the consequences. Stop whining about the fact that you can no longer carelessly leave the huge burden of caring for children on the woman while escaping your share of the duties. Sure it’s harder on men nowadays thanks to the courts – guess what – studies show that women STILL pay a greater cost having and rearing children economically and socially. The laws are equal – the non-custodial parent must pay the custodial parent in theory. Face it – most dad’s from the beginning run from child rearing duties as soon as the woman is pregnant. Laws are made to work for the majority. If you are in the minority and wish to take care of/see your children fight for it! Live close by, call, keep asking, make peace with the mother. A mother would do anything to see her child – sadly fathers have the opposite reputation. So if fathers had their way mothers and children would starve and struggle while they partied it up/moved up in their career/basically did whatever they pleased. The state can’t have babies starving – and why should taxes pay for babies when the dad’s are around and capable?
It sucks for fathers who have to pay child support – it’s hard to lose a big chunk of your already tiny paycheck to taxes – and to not even be able to see your child/ren after that. But it sucks for mothers too – to have to work as well as being a single parent – that’s working two jobs so no wonder they think the men are lazy. So everyone THINK before you have children. MEN and WOMEN. And try to stay together after you do. Everyone wins that way.
For all you worthless females that have children without being married shame on you. It was YOUR Choice. Do you know that a man can be sexually assaulted and have to pay. The laws need to change. Since it is the FEMALES choice to have a child it should be YOUR SOLE RESPONSIBILTY. Men it a lot of cases have absolutely NO choice. Make females soley responsible for THEIR Choice. Stop blaming men for YOUR choice.
My 6 year old’s son is a complete waste. He has a record of about 5 different things, 3 dui’s, some bank issues, and recently a felony of stealing $3,800 from a grocery store he was a manager at. Needless to say, he can’t keep or find a job. He is close to $5,000 owed to me in back child support, he kept changing jobs and has lied about his jobs… we never went to court for visitation, etc… but we have worked out that he can take his son every other weekend… which he rarely follows through with… he either claims he has to “work”, or he can’t afford the gas to meet me halfway, or he has to “babysit” his other daughter from another woman. His mom and stepdad have been covering for his ass to help me out and would send me money from time to time. He is over 2 months behind on his child support, and to the best of my knowledge is not working. I am so sick of his crap and not taking responsibility! He is 33 years old going on 6. My son is more mature than he is!!! How rediculous is that??? If anyone has anything to add I am all ears!!
Hello, in Virginia I recieved a summons for child support arrears couldnt keep up with payments due to me not having a job or any income at all which set me back 5k in the hole, my license has been revoked, also credit bureau reporting has been made . I happened to get employed just yesterday my question is what are the chances of me being jailed being that im employed now and have means to pay arrears?
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