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Important
Information Regarding Our Site
DelinquentDad.com
is an index of information and resources for child-support
enforcement. We are not lawyers, and for that reason,
we do not respond to individual letters requesting assistance.
Common-Sense
Tips for Child Support Enforcement
- Do
not deny visitation when your ex fails to pay child
support. You can be held in contempt of court! Anyway,
this isn't the child's battle. It's yours.
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If
you haven't already, locate your closest state IV-D/child
support office. Sign up for enforcement services.
This is available at no cost (or very low cost)
in every state.
- Provide
all the information possible about your ex to the
appropriate agency/authority. Don't hold back.
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Call
or visit the county courthouse where your support
order was issued. Find out if they have a courtroom
facilitator to assist you in filing your own enforcement
case. They can't give legal advice, but they can
point you in the right direction, usually at no
cost.
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Write
to your legislators when you have a problem with
state agencies in charge of support enforcement.
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Research!
You can't do battle with your ex, or the state,
until you can clearly see the playing field.
Find out your state's laws on contempt proceedings.
Learn what your rights are as a custodial parent
and as a client of a state agency.
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Be
heard! Don't walk away in frustration. Chances
are, you'll want to give up several times
before this is over, but your diligence and
effort will pay off in the end. Don't give
up!
Deadbeat
Parents Are
Guilty Of Neglect
Children
need and deserve the love and support of both
parents. Unfortunately, that is too often denied
them when noncustodial parents
shirk their legal and moral responsibilities
and willfully refuse to pay child support.
The void
left by nonpayment of support is extreme for
the parent who cares for the child. The absent
parent's actions
can plunge the family into a financial and legal
quagmire from which it can be difficult to recover.
The costs of health care, shelter, food, education,
and clothing must be covered despite the lack
of child support.
Children can't be raised on air alone.
State
agencies are mandated by federal law to enforce
child
actions can plunge the family into a
financial and legal quagmire from which it can
be difficult to recover. The costs of health
care, shelter, food, education, and clothing
must be covered despite the lack of child support.
Children can't be raised on air alone.
(Continued
in next column)
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Would
you loan money to this guy?
Better think twice!
Pictured
here is Daniel D. Phillips,
54, of Shawnee, Kansas, a former lawyer and current
shopkeeper who has earned the title of deadbeat
many times over. Along with his fourth wife, Eva
M. Jenkins, Phillips is now the purveyor of
records and record cleaning products at his physical
store, Vinyl
Renaissance, his eBay store (also known as
Vinyl Renaissance), and a current or former eBay
store, Daneva Classical. Far worse than
delinquent, this scofflaw has let others support
his lifestyle, leaving a huge number of debts
in his wake, not including his long-term child
support arrearages. For more information on
this Hall of Shame inductee, including the
latest updates from March, 2006, click the
photo.
In
September 2003, Phillips was arrested on a federal
warrant for nonsupport. (To read the Seattle
Post-Intelligencer article online, click here.)
Phillips was sentenced in federal court in March
2004 for failure to pay child support, placed
on 5 years' probation and ordered to pay a minimum
of 10% of his income toward the past-due support.
Do you have information as to his income or assets?
Please contact us here!
GUILTY
OF NEGLECT, Continued from Col. 1
State agencies are mandated
by federal law to enforce child support orders,
but support
officers complain of overload and lack of funds
to properly do the job, resulting in many cases
falling through the cracks, particularly in the
instance of the more difficult interstate enforcement
cases.
So what
can you, a custodial parent, do? Of course, you
can hire a lawyer to do what the state agency
ought to do. It requires precious financial resources
to be diverted from your child, unless you qualify
for free legal aid. In any case, it may be some
time before you see a payment from your ex. That
is, of course, if you ever see a payment. The
best thing you can do is to arm yourself with
a good knowledge of child support laws and agencies.
The more you know, the more active you can be
in your case. It really is true that the squeaky
wheel gets the grease.
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