What happens when a deadbeat keeps avoiding their child support obligations? In some cases, quite a lot. Depending on the state, wages can be garnished, tax refunds withheld, or even an arrest can happen.
Pennsylvania is one of the states where arrests can happen. The Montgomery County Sheriff’s…
Divorce judges have it pretty tough. The lawyers and the couple in a divorce case are all trying to sway the judge’s opinion. Their final ruling will have consequences that will remain for the rest of the couple’s lives. Deciding what is “fair” in such a case isn’t always clear, but a decision mu…
You may remember the post we had about the Hague agreement and how Idaho may stop that treaty in its tracks. The agreement was to standardize how child support was handled for people in foreign countries. Critics were afraid that people in foreign countries might override the rights of Idahoans.
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The “taxi king” of New York has been ordered to pay $25,000 a month in child support and must undergo drug testing if he wishes to visit his daughter, a court ruled recently. The man is called the taxi king because he owns more taxi medallions than anyone else in the city.
He has been estranged …
Child support payments are structured on the income of the person who has to pay them. If they are very successful, the amount they may have to pay per month can be quite high. The purpose of child support is so that an absent parent can provide the amount of financial assistance they would have …
People facing child support payments sometimes can’t handle the stress. An irresponsible person may find themselves and their income painted into a corner. One man’s quest to deal with this pressure lead to his possible death as a jihadist.
The man in question had nine children by various wives….
A California software consultant has taken an unusual step to fight his alimony (spousal maintenance) payments. He has written an initiative to end alimony altogether in the State of California, and has received permission from the Secretary of State to start gathering signatures per California l…
Child support battles are almost always acrimonious. Sometimes they turn criminal and tragic. People can snap under the pressure and do heinous acts. In one case, a mother finally got the justice she deserved after a 15 year battle.
The mother heard that her four-year-old daughter had fallen off…
A deadbeat dad or mom is a parent who fails to pay their portion of child support. There are many reasons why someone may be deadbeat, but when someone does have the money to pay and fails to do so then the courts take a very dim view on that person.
Here’s one example. A former Manhattan banker…
When two people get married with very unequal incomes and then get divorced, the person who has less income may be left destitute. To counter this, the courts developed the concept of spousal maintenance payments, sometimes called alimony in other states. The partner with more income pays a certa…