Posted on 02/14/2006 8:40:06 AM PST by Orlando
State child-welfare officals are backing a House bill(2706) that would suspend the driver's licenses of parents who fall more than $500. behind in their court-ordered child support payments. The officals also support a Senate bill(468)(459) that would block deadbeats from buying hunting and fishing licenses and camping permits. The goal, the officals say, is not to punish these debtors but encourage them to pay their obligations on time and in full.
In a another news article(The Wichita Eagle)(Bills: Pay child support to hunt,drive) more details are provided.
http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/news/legislature/13816191.htm
"Garnisheeing a debtor's personal INJURY insurance or worker's compensation payments to make up for lost child support payments..."
This is excessive! Even hardened criminals maintain their own private transportation.
Duh? No transportation-no job-really fall behind on child support. Isn't anyone thinking about the consequences?
The "system" can really create the environment for someone who is behind to never be able to catch up. This does the kids no good.
Taking the license from an unemployed or otherwise poor guy in no way to increase his ability to pay. That said, those who have the money and WON'T pay are a different story and there are many other ways to get that money. Taking a driver's license is going to do nothing for the children.
If it affects the "father" in a negative way, he'll come up with the money... too bad this technique has to be used. Hard to believe "driving privileges" mean more to some men than their children. The other way to think of it is that mothers have to come up with food money. How many kids starve to death? If they can feed them, the men can chip in the right amount. Judges aren't giving some man a thousand dollars a week to pay if he earns 200
I hope that happens everywhere. I'd love to start getting child support from my ex-wife. As it is I am just happy to have the kid.
Kansas has no public transportation? Should there be no consequences for one's behavior? Doesn't sound like a terribly conservative position.
I raised from ages 6 and 3 to their now 23 and 20 years, the children of a deadbeat dad with their bio mom (my wife).
Thankfully, we never really needed the money. I would have been happy to adopt them if he'd have given them up. He has been totally non-supportive in every sense of the word.
I really have no sympathy whatsoever for men who father children and then basically abandon them.
The other type is when I had to call them up to find the amount of a lien, with interest, as part of my work as a title searcher. The b!tches I got were uniformly hostile to me, from then on, I asked female co-workers to make the calls.
Yes, I know there's a lot of deadbeat dads out there who make the rest of us males look bad sometimes, but I would expect professionals to see past that when they deal with someone who is forthright. These "head up the butt" types have always got Rat politicians on their sides by reflex, and they succeed in pulling the wool over fiscally conservative Republican eyes, too.
These kinds of things are designed to screw men in any way possible. I know that there are men who don't live up to their responsibilities, but there are also mothers who go to "social services" and claim that the father's not paying so that they can collect the AFDC. The social service people don't check it out and just begin a paperwork deal to nail the father while giving the mother the money. And when the father proves he's been paying, they don't do anything to the mother for lying.
"Hard to believe "driving privileges" mean more to some men than their children"
I don't know. You have to be pulled over to get caught driving on suspension. I think we might all be a bit surprized at the number of unlicensed/suspended drivers on the roads already...who don't owe child suport.
It might force a few of them to cough up some bucks but not many, I'd bet.
It works fine in Texas. Threaten to take a man's Hunting License, or Law or Medical License and he won't get behind to start with.
So9
That's two of us.
Here is a novel concept. Instead of letting yourself get into a situation where the "system" can screw you, do what you are supposed to and pay child support. Better yet, instead of getting into a situation where you have to pay child support, do the responsible thing and keep it in your pants, or keep your knees together as the case may be, and don't have a child with someone you aren't willing to spend your life with.
And before anyone even says "Well, you can't tell if you will stay married..blah, blah, blah", I call BS. You can commit to making a marriage work, and you can decide before hand that you will make it work. My marriage has been a good one, even with a few rough patches;13 years,several fights I thought were going to be the end of it,and a lot of hard work tells me this is true.
You don't want to commit to the hard work, you pay the price.
Oh the changes you'll see when the male birth control pill appears.
If it's any comfort, my best friend's girlfriend pays through the nose to her ex. She took him to court to re-negotiate the payments, and found out the oldest kid (for whom she was still paying child support) hasn't even lived with him for six months.
Turbo Pig - and when your wife runs off with her boyfriend and your child. . .?
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