NEWS: No Holiday for Sleazebags

Yeah I get that. Like I said, I don't even know why/how I got worked up about it, other than over the past week I've been dealing with some very aggravating child support issues so my dander is already up about it.

Just take my rants and stick them on a shelf labeled 'Overly sensitive, aggravated with dealing with a state entity, hormonally challenged lady going off about something stupid"

I was once involved with a woman, we broke up, we restarted dating after a year or so, and after a few weeks of dating she said btw you are a daddy.

I started paying for the baby, we moved in together, I am paying for everything, after sometime we breakup again, now I am not allowed to see the kid, I keep paying, I take the mom to court.

After the DNA test... I am not the dad - I really loved the kid - she was the sweetest little girl , it turns out the mom was cheating on me with another guy (who she was married to, and her was also giving the mom money while she was living with me.

The lessons learned
I liked being a daddy,
I was a good dad,
get DNA tests sooner,
it is only money, and
doing the right thing from the start is always right.

And the sweetest little girl who I loved with all of my heart turned into a manipulative little lier like her mother - I used to keep in contact with the dad. He got fucked over by the mother too and was stopped from seeing the little one after a few years.

Same idea, different circumstances. Children are not rent/utilities/cars/phones. And people keep mentioning needing to leave the country for work... What? The pay-rate is that much better in Mexico? Or do you mean those people who have a job that pays for them to jetset all over the world... chances are, if they have that kind of job they can pay their child support so...

they also can keep you from getting a hunting,fishing,and motorcycle licence.

Its like they have a deadbeat daddys list

the 8% goes to the state or the friend of the court

I'm not sure how many deadbeat parents (I say parents because the father could have custody and the mother pays child support) this will net, but I'll wager that somewhere, the person who came up with this had the idea that this might net some of the big deadbeats - the sort that owe tens of thousands of dollars and decide to disappear to another country in order to avoid Johnny Law.

The rule might be a little more effective, though, if it nullified your passport entirely. I don't think there's a "national passport database," so I can't imagine that sort of thing would be easy to check.

Like reprobate said, this probably won't do a whole lot. It would be more effective to put up wanted posters at the customs check points.

Thanks for clarifying this. I really appreciate it.

Oh how I wish "imputation of income" could be put in tabular form. There is no formula for imputation or income. There is a Friend of the Court who generally despises you for being a non-custodial parent. Appealable, yes, but after only how much damage has already been done by them by their lawyers (commonly known as referees). Let's hope the judge is reasonable, because appealing him or her will take some time and money.

I almost wish that child support offenses were criminal in nature--at least then I might be afforded an attorney. I've done well acting as my own attorney, but when you're dealing with the might of the county prosecutor's office representing the custodial parent gratis, somehow I think that I've been dealt a bad hand in an unfair game of life. There really should be more parity in the system, don't you think?

I think you must live in a really strange town... I've never met anyone who forks out $$ for a passport just for identification purposes, when there are a whole lot of other pieces that can be used that are free. I work for a bank, so I ask for ID at least 10 times a day, and I see a passport used as ID maybe 2 or 3 times a month (and that's being generous).

Of course, I'm assuming that you have to pay for your passport in the US, like you do here in Canada.

In Canada, BTW, if you are not paying your child support, they take your driver's license. You want to talk about affecting ability to work?

No one asks for passports for identification purposes. They may be an option, but they are never required, and frankly, you're eighteen, how many jobs can you have had, anyway? Further, whether you "buy it" or not, the whole purpose of the article is that the program is startlingly effective. Perhaps you should read it. Finally, no one goes on welfare, or hungry if you don't pay your cable bill. Why child support is different isn't that hard to grasp.