I have been a child support advocate for over 20 years with a nation wide non-profit child support advocacy organization - ACES, the Association for Children for Enforcement of Support.
Child Support is one of those topics that no one really wants to talk about. Everybody knows someone who doesn't get the court ordered support and of course the non-custodial parent's all have their horror stories that they spout to support their claims for not paying the support for their children. But when you get down to the brass nuts of it... the average monthly child support payment is less than the average monthly car payment. What is more important, your children or your automobile?
In the United States OVER 100 BILLION DOLLARS is owed to approximately 117 MILLION CHILDREN. Children are going to bed hungry at night because one parent is not doing their part to help take care of their children. If the primary custodial parent did this they would lose custody of the children, yet the absent parent gets away with it year after year after year after year. The average child support arrearage or amount past due on a child support payment is $50,000.
Children essentially loose both parent's when one parent makes the decision not to do their part. How you ask... the primary custodial parent is often left having to work 2 jobs and this leaves the children with a babysitter or home alone raising themselves.
There is a lot that custodial parent's can do to MAKE the child support agency do their job which will force the non-payor to do their part. The first thing you can do is contact ACES and learn your rights and remedies under the law.
What you, as a custodial parent does on your case can make a difference. I received a phone call last week from a friend and someone I have worked with on this issue for 15 years. She had just left the courtroom with a check for $26,600 + $10,000 in bond money that the family had put up to get his sorry butt out of jail for the fourth time.
This is not a gender issue but it is a control issue, and the lives of our children are at stake. Non-payment of child support is the most blatant form of child abuse and it is often aided and abetted by the court.
Child Support : Kansas Family Law Blog
1 comment:
an automobile more important than the child? no.
but one needs an automobile to get to work, and in the case of being laid off, they also need internet to find a job, a phone to take phone calls from prospective employers and electricity to make all of that stuff work..
what happens to the guy paying $900 a month for one child who lost his job, his car and about to lose his house and gets sent to jail because there aren't any jobs in the area for him?
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