Collection of Child Support is usually challenging, however, government, State and Federal, necessitates payments to be made and has offered a great deal of help. If a parent fails to pay child support, he or she is subject to enforcement approaches to collect regular and over-due payments.
Before 2006, there was a 3-year statute of limitations for the collection on a judgment for child support liability. This statute for collection of child support was terminated in 2006. The following are some of the enforcement approaches for collecting overdue child support.
- Passport Restrictions: Passport applications could be turned down by the U.S. State Department. currently, Federal law forbids the issuance or renewal of a U.S. passport to anybody with child support owed of twenty-five hundred dollars or more and enables the government to revoke or restrict previously issued passports to these types of individuals.
- Driver’s License Suspension: A legal, active license could be suspended when a parent deliberately declines to pay child support for six or more months. Meaning the parent can’t be issued a new license or renew an existing one until the owed child support is fully paid or an acceptable payment solution has been reached.
- Suspension of Occupational or Professional License: A parent could also have his or her occupational or professional license revoked or suspended when the parent willingly declines to pay child support for six or more months.
- Liens on Property: A lien could be established on a parent’s property, comprising vehicles and houses when a parent declines to make child support payments. When a property has a child support lien, possible buyers, title agencies and lenders can discover that a lien is presently on the property. The lien stays on the property until the amount indebted is paid. The lien regards property that is owned when the lien is registered and to all property that may be obtained at a later date.
- Wage Garnishment: Parents that owe missed child support payments could be subject to wage garnishments. The court can order an employer to withhold a certain amount of an employee’s paycheck each pay period to fulfill his or her child support liabilities.
- Bank Account Garnishment: Parents that owe unpaid child support jeopardize having their bank accounts or investments garnished as a means to pay for unpaid child support.
- Seizing Other Sources of Income: Along with having his or her wages garnished, a parent that declines to pay child support is subject to having his or her tax refunds, winnings from lottery, unemployment payments or workers’ comp seized to pay the overdue child support amount.
- Pension Benefits: Domestic Relations Order could be used to acquire overdue child support payments from a parent’s pension account. If a DRO gets correctly registered by the Court and presented to a parent’s employer, there are no provisions that that parent can do to stop the funds from coming out of his or her pension plan.
- Contempt Proceedings: A parent could be held in contempt of court for failing to pay child support and could be ordered to serve time in jail. With the purpose of holding a parent in contempt of a child support order, the Court must ascertain that the parent has the capability to pay child support but willfully declines to pay.
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