When parents separate, affording groceries, child care, and other necessities for their child can be challenging. Child support payments can help unmarried and divorced parents cover child related costs, so it is important to establish an enforceable child support order to ensure regular payments. However, sometimes government agencies are overwhelmed with requests, and a custodial…Read More
Child Support Statute of Limitations
Many saw the story break last year about a California woman who was awarded child support 50 years after her ex-husband hightailed it to Canada, leaving her to raise their 3 year old without the benefit of financial support. Fifty years later, realizing California did not have a statute of limitations on child support payments,…Read More
Painful Consequences Await Those Who Skip Child Support Payments
The State of Illinois takes the payment of child support seriously. If your ex-spouse has stopped making child support payments, there are a variety of tools to encourage parents to comply with court orders so that children get the support they need. Child Support Wage Garnishment If the obligor of child support gets behind on…Read More
Past Due Child Support Relief
Unpaid child support in the U.S. has climbed into the billions and many states are struggling to collect it when parents have all but given up on paying when faced with accumulating child support debt. Not long ago, Maryland started a program to get so called ‘deadbeat parents’ back on track by offering a 10…Read More
Child Support Collection Efforts a Costly Undertaking
Kane County taxpayers may be on the hook for up to $1.3 million if the state of Illinois does not make good on its promise to reimburse the county for its child support collection efforts. The state failed to pay the money owed to Kane county for its collection efforts this fiscal year, accounting for…Read More
Tweets Expose Those Behind on Child Support
Getting behind on child support payments is a growing problem. In a modern-day approach, Arizona is cracking down on deadbeats one hashtag at a time. With the governor’s blessing, the state has enacted a campaign of “Twitter-shaming” to smoke-out wanted child support evaders. The governor feels that for too long deadbeat parents have been able…Read More
Child Support Arrears Spell Trouble for Many
Making child support payments can sometimes present as a financial hardship and, if the payments run dry, children ultimately pay the price in terms of money and time spent with the parent who is falling behind. Sometimes a job loss or reduction in pay is the culprit or an accident or illness may be to…Read More
