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The federal government should insist that every employer and landlord check for warrants for overdue child support payments.
There are so many men out there going from women to women getting them pregnant because they know that the system is so lax they can just walk away and let taxpayer pay every penny.
These guys who are players with multiple children and letting the taxpayer pay the bills should be behind bars not increasing taxes and burdening the system with more children.
So many men getting a free ride out there on an issue that would be so easy to resolve.
It would be nice if they had a federal database like e-verify that landlords and employer can check for men who owe back child support. They should be required to immediately contact the police and the police should be required to put the men in jail until they pay for the past child support in full.
I understand the majority are men (many of my friends are single mothers) but also women (I know of one who left the country leaving behind a single father).
No reason it should be a database specific to men.
I have no respect for people who abandon their children... they are dead to me. I think the law needs to be enhanced to make their lives difficult. However, I also realize that there are logistics and practical factors involved.
I understand the majority are men (many of my friends are single mothers) but also women (I know of one who left the country leaving behind a single father).
No reason it should be a database specific to men.
I have no respect for people who abandon their children... they are dead to me. I think the law needs to be enhanced to make their lives difficult. However, I also realize that there are logistics and practical factors involved.
Maybe no national database has been established, because the majority in legislative bodies are men.
It just needs to be easier to enforce. Winning Child Support and collecting it are two different things.
You don't "win" child support. I told my lawyer I didn't want to bother because my soon-to-be ex would never pay it anyway. I just wanted to be rid of him and that alone would make for a financial improvement.
Lawyer said it was not my choice to make. The state requires that both parents support children and the amount each pays depends on a formula based on income. Great, he wouldn't work--one of the major problems ending our marriage.
So I sat through the court charade where he whined to the judge that he couldn't pay child support because he was unemployed, and the judge said too bad, pay $50 a week till you become employed and then we can revisit. OF COURSE he didn't pay.
Eventually he pulled himself together and I got a few bucks occasionally tossed my way. But I didn't count on it. Enforcing it through the court system would have enraged him, and my dd was finally getting some time with a dad who got it through his head through the court system that he couldn't be drunk around her, and that was more important to me than angering him over money and maybe destroying their relationship if he flipped out over a request for support.
Keep it at a state level.... the Fed has enough on their plate to screw up.
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