Child Support

Child support payments can be difficult to keep up with for many non-custodial parents. For parents who are incarcerated, child supports payments can not only be difficult, but an ever-growing burden about which they can do little to nothing.Experts say the child...

After divorce papers were finalized on Tuesday, Charlie Sheen and Brooke Mueller have officially untied the knot. Unfortunately for Charlie Sheen, it was quite an expensive knot to untie.According to Daily Mail, Mueller was awarded $55,000 per month in child support...

According to sources, over $1 billion dollars in back child support payments are owed to thousands of Louisiana children. But now, a new law will ensure that those payments are not squandered at Louisiana casinos.Businessweek reports that Louisiana casinos will begin...

The U.S. Supreme Court recently heard oral arguments on the issue of whether parents facing incarceration because of failure to pay child support have the right to an attorney.The appeal arose from a case involving a South Carolina man who had been held in civil...

In our last post, we began looking at a New York Times article detailing a lawsuit that was recently filed against the state of Georgia for maintaining a system of "debtor prisons" which incarcerate parents for their inability to pay child support.The suit, as we...

A lawsuit was recently filed in Futon County Superior court against the state of Georgia for its failure to provide legal representation to parents being held in prison for failure to pay child support.The Southern Center of Human Rights filed the suit on Tuesday,...

Georgia law enforcement officials are sending a clear message to the state's divorced parents: pay your child support payments or expect trouble. State workers declared 2011 the year they will crack down on child support payment dodgers, and enforcement officials have...

In our last post, we noted the recent arrest of a Georgia man who fled to Indiana in order to avoid making child support payments. In that story, it wasn't clear how much child support the man had evaded.In another recent story, a 42-year-old Nevada man pleaded guilty...

A Georgia man with a federal warrant for his arrest was taken into custody after Indiana State Police found him on Tuesday.The warrant charged that the man had fled the state of Georgia in order to avoid paying child support. He had been living in southeast Indiana...