Not possible in the Age of Clinton. He made it so your paycheck gets garnished (regardless of whether or not you were faithful in your CS payments).
Not possible in the Age of Clinton. He made it so your paycheck gets garnished (regardless of whether or not you were faithful in your CS payments)
There's at least one case in TN where, so far as I know, the father takes odd jobs, gets paid cash, and doesn't pay.
True enough. My mother never recieved a dime in child support for the three of us until his wages were garnisheed in the '90s. My youngest brother graduated from high school in 98. They divorced when I was five...and he only had to pay $110.00 a month for us when they finally forced it on him in 1991. In all the intervening years, my mother allowed us to visit every other summer and alternating Christmases.
His back child support, btw, was forgiven and never paid. All that consideration for a man who throttled the mother of his children right in front of them.
If there were fewer deadbeats like him, wage garnishing would be unnecessary.
On the topic of the thread...easy credit is dangerously seductive, especially when you've never had to learn how to manage money of your own before. These guys fall into that trap because so many parents are so anxious that their little darlings aren't "deprived". They don't understand what deprivation IS, or have unrealistic expectations of what SHOULD be given to their children.
Her divorce was pre-Clinton administration. He disappeared after the divorce and no one was able to track him down. On another note, I happened to be at a friend's house last Friday when her ex picked up their kids for Christmas. He also dropped off the child support check. I asked her if he would pay child support if he was not legally obligated -- she said no.