childsupport

Wow !! Yeah thats way too harsh , I cant believe it ... The justice system is really not fair sometimes..

this is waht i pretty much thought to. i just had my bf got o jail for a 11 month sentence but only spent 4 months for health issues for his back childsupport. his po officer came oday and told him if in a month he has no job even though he knows no one is hiring right now he going back to jail for 2 years ! i am really confused and lost right now.

this agree with for he is only 4000 behind over 10 years !

Child support is base on someone income. So someone witha minimum wage job should not have a high child support unless they had a high paying job to begin with. You also can go every three year sand petition to lower payments if situations change. Such as taking a lower paying job. It a parent does not try to get it changed all teh time they should have no problems.

What about people who don't make enough to pay child support? If someone makes minimum wage it is obvious that they are not going to be able to pay rent and live while paying $300 a month in child support.

no i think you have to look at the situion on every case first. if there is somone who make 20.00 an hour and runs hides and refuses to pay childsuppoet throw thier butts in jail! if there is a person who works at mcdondals and cant pay thier childsuppot what then? or abouth the ones that sit on ssi,diabilite and welfare they dont have tp pay a dime

Granted he won't make money while he is sitting in jail. But if jail isn't a threat. Than what will motivate those parents who do not wish to pay? Threatned with jail time or have them serve jail and they will at least attempt to pay something.

And what about the guy who doesn't make enough to pay child support? Should one family starve because a parent is obligated to pay child support by law? Seriously. I know a guy who had 2 kids with a woman he was married to for about 14 years. They got a divorce. He met someone else and had 3 kids with her. He wasn't able to pay all of his child support and would get locked up when he fell behind. By locking him up he lost earnings. Therefore only setting him back even further. The court here goes by your income and not by how many kids you have with your current wife. At one time he was locked up for 5 months in a row because he wasn't able to pay all of what he owed. IF you ask me that is a waste of my tax dollars. What about him? Lock him up so his current family doesn't have an income? Let 3 children under the age of 4 go hungry?If your answer is he shouldn't have had the kids. Then it is only logical that it isn't a matter of the law. The woman and man shouldn't have had the kid and tax dollars shouldn't be spent making sure they are paying. They should have thought with their heads before they had the kids. If someone has a child with someone who will make minimum wage for the rest of their life, they might not ever be able to pay child support. If they did they would self destruct because they wouldn't be able to support themselves unless they had to pay $20 a month in child support.

When I said "he was locked up 5 months in a row" I meant each month he was locked up for 3-7 days. That is at least $1,000 in earnings that he could have have made. His current family has had to move several times because they have fallen behind in rent and his ex wife has the house that he bought when they were married, a job that pays enough money for her to pay all of her bills and live comfortably.

Your right Brandy. There are plenty of deadbeat mothers out there as well. They also deserve to go to jail if they do not pay support.

not just fathers ! there are plenty of deadbeat mothers out there to!

true thanks so much for all of your thoughts and inputs.