Any attorney, divorce, or custody coach will tell you that custody and child support are two different issues that should not be considered together. The truth is far different, however. As we all know, child support is based on income and how much time the children...
California’s Third District Court of Appeals has upheld the Yolo County Superior Court’s previous ruling that a state law requiring parents to pay child support for children placed in foster care. The father, Terrell Lowery, tried to argue that the...
Let’s dispense, if for only a moment, the fact that debtor’s prisons were outlawed a long, long time ago in this country. Let’s forget for a just a moment that you’re not supposed to be imprisioned for failure to pay a debt. Let’s talk...
Childless Georgia resident, Frank Hatley, is 50-years old. He has spent the last 13-months in jail for failure to pay child support despite the fact that DNA has proven him to not be the father of any child. A Georgia judge has finally released him from jail and...
Missouri has just passed a new state law which decriminalizes non-payment of child support for parents provided that they don’t have a serious criminal history. An alternative to jail, parents who fall behind on their child support obligations will be enrolled...
Parents that fail to pay child support are subject to jail time in most states, which of course means they can’t work and continue to rack up child support payments that they can’t pay, an ingenious system that doesn’t help anyone. New state statutes...
