In our previous post we began looking at the issue of deadbeat parents who are imprisoned for failure to pay child support. Increasingly, parents who have been incarcerated for not paying child support are filing motions requesting representation to ensure due...
Month: January 2011
Child Support and the Problem of ‘Debtor Imprisonment’: Part I
A recent article in the Atlanta Journal Constitution considered the issue of child support and the way the Georgia legal system treats parents who are unable to pay.Since the recession began to take hold, there has been an increase of charges for contempt of court and...
Texas Appellate Court Prevents AG from Blocking Gay Divorce
Recently, a Texas appellate court ruled that the attorney general had no standing to challenge the constitutionality of a divorce issued to a gay couple in Texas.The couple had obtained a marriage license in Massachusetts in 2004 and later relocated to San Antonio....
29-year-old Jackpot Winner May Take Home Only Half
A 29-year-old Idaho woman lucky enough have won the $380 million Mega Millions jackpot is, unluckily, still married to her estranged husband. Now she may be able to take home only half of her winnings because of Idaho community property laws.The 29-year-old woman had...
Planning for Divorce: Life Insurance and Disability Income Insurance
In our previous post, we looked at an article written by Cristina Fuentes, a senior financial advisor at Ameriprise Financial Services, Inc., and considered her suggestions as to how couples planning a divorce should view the issue of health insurance. Here we will...
Divorce May Present Health Insurance Challenges for Ex-Spouses
Cristina Fuentes, a senior financial advisor with Ameriprise Financial Services, Inc., recently wrote an article for the San Gabriel Valley Tribune in which she considers the issue of insurance coverage and how divorcing couples can ensure that they are adequately...
Woman Scams Ex-boyfriend Into Paying Child Support
People will do almost anything to make a buck.According to the Albany Herald, a 38-year-old Moultrie woman has been arrested for scamming a man into paying her child support for a little girl that didn't belong to him. The woman reportedly had convinced her...
Texas Attorney General Working Hard on Child Support Collection
Even in these tough economic times when everybody is struggling to make ends meet, Texas Attorney General Greg Abbot takes child support collection seriously.Over the last year, Abbot's office collected $2.9 billion in child support payments. The Texas AG has been...
