Comments on: Child Support and Deadbeat Dads

By: Jamie

Jamie — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 15:15:09 +0000

My husband is on probation for child support. He became behind when he was unemployed. His arrears are 3000 dollars. In August they put him on probation. He started working at a temp service in June and was converted to full time in sept. When he got converted to the company they did not start taking his child support out right away. He missed like a months worth of payment. When they did start taking it out he has paid faithfully since then. He is even out of work right now for medical reasons but we are still making the payments. He has to go to court on feb 2 for that one month lapse. Domestic Relations is pushing for jail time. Will they put him in jail for missing that one months worth of payment? We live in PA.

By: The other side

The other side — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 01:08:47 +0000

I meant stop assuming it is ONLY Dads walking out on little kids. Do assume that the MA courts do a lot of sword rattling, but the deadbeat Mom has nothing to worry about – just tell the judge she’s doing another rehab and then go off with the next new BF she’s picked-up at an AA meeting. No follow-up. And the deadbeat learns how to scam the system quickly — and does so.

By: The other side

The other side — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 01:02:35 +0000

Please! There are deadbeat moms every bit as uncaring as the “dad” bashed above… especially having money for partying (booze, drugs, etc.)

DEADBEAT PARENT. Stop assuming Dads walk out on little kids.

By: carrie

carrie — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 01:52:30 +0000

My husband has 3 children from another marriage. When he first was divorced he had a great job and their agreement was for him to pay $3000 per month. He was let go from his position and was on unemployment for over a year. We had the monthly amount lowered to a little less than half of the original. He has been unemployed for about 2 years. Our house is being foreclosed on and we are about to go live with my parents. We are behind on the child support payments as well. His ex-wife is threatening to take him to court and have them garnish my wages. I want to know if that is possible. Does Massachusetts allow this. We aren’t trying to avoid paying her, but we just don’t have the money….I don’t even have the money to pay for heating oil!

By: Melissa

Melissa — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 08:04:41 +0000

My ex and I are in a battle for child support. I have 2 children and his arrears is now very close to 60k. To make matters worse his current order is only 80 per month for 2 kids. It use to be 75 per week for one but he had it lowered to the incarceration rate because he is a frequent flyer in the jail. I filed contempt charges on my own because dor was doing nothing. They put liens on thins he doesnt even have. He owns no property has no licenses or bank accounts… What kind of punishment is taking away what a person doesnt have??? I finally got him into court on the contempt charge and right before we went up to see the judge he saw another man get arrested for owing less than him and decided he wasnt going back to jail. He said he was going to the bathroom and never came back. So now there is a capias warrent issued. The local police have run his name through the system almost weekly doing warrent checks and nothing comes up because unfortunatly the capias is a civil warrent not a criminal one so now i am working with the sheriffs office to find him because unfortunatly my ex is technically homeless and doesnt have an address. He stays with friends most of the time. He works 2 under the tae jobs making more money than i do and pays nothing for his children yet he always seems to have money for cigarettes drugs and alcohol… I struggle daily to pay my bills while he seems to be living it up and partying… He even gets about 200 a month in food stamps for just himself which he sells for cash… I just dont get it

By: michelle

michelle — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 18:55:03 +0000

my ex husband has stopped paying child support he claims to have “lost his job” which in reality he works for his parents and would only get payed to cover his child support. he is CEO of one of his dads corporations, what can i do and how long is the process?

By: JD

JD — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 14:09:16 +0000

“Not to defend deadbeat dads or anything, but the bottom line is that if a dad doesn’t want to pay child support then (most of the time) he’ll get away with it.”

Well I am doing something wrong, because I was a month late once and they came after me like flies on sh**, like I had just done something horrific.

By: JeNi

JeNi — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 14:23:12 +0000

If I am receiving C/Support payments through MA DOR, what happens if I move to FL ?
Also My x owes 20k ia back support, do I take him to court in FL or MA ?

By: diana

diana — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 22:43:14 +0000

i have been divorce for five years the judge ordered my ex to pay 187.00 every week the first year in a half he refused to pay then this year he took me to court to get it reduced the judge reduced it even though he is working the same job he had when we divorced but he told the judge he is now only making 350.00 a week the judge reduced it but it pretty much stayed the sae payment 187.00 he was 27.000 behind a hhundred to the back and the rest to current last payments were 18 days apart and now he is over a week late on this payment is there anything i can do he hardly ever seesthe girls and when he does its for a half hour andhe brings them home upset and in tears

By: stacie

stacie — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 16:22:39 +0000

Well the place to go is Florida if you want to avoid paying child support, the whole state is one big deadbeat dad,My ex moved to Florida remarried His wife bought a 2 million dollar home CASH!!! they both drive porshes, All in her name. He stands in front of the judge and says he has no work at all for 2 years. He does not have to work . I have an agreement he made me sign stating he would not take me back to court for 5 years within the year he took me back even though he was trying to get me not to touch their money, The judge made me go threw a 2 year trial at a cost of 20 thousand dollars He only owed me 15 thousand. He payed his lawyer 12 thousand and still did not just pay me. I have waited 6 months for a judgement on the case!!! I just tried to have him served for contempt for not paying the new court ordered amount but he refused service, He just did not answer his gated home for the sherriffs. What a world . Oh he sees his children 1s a year and he wants that to be in Florida with him on xmas thats wright take the best day of the year i do all the work and the judge thinks this is fair.