Child Support

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...

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...

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...

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...

Kira Kerkorian, 12, will never hurt for money or frills. Not only will legal -- but not biological -- dad pay millions in retroactive child support payments back to 2002, but he will also provide for equestrian expenses, hobbies, beauty treatments, tutoring, parties,...

Child support - often a central component in a divorce settlement - can sometimes take a surreal twist in the aftermath of a separation, especially when the media gets hold of a story like the following, which is admittedly a bit sensational.The tale actually relates...

Times are tough, with financial stresses having a discernible impact on the ability of many people to handle their child support obligations.This is true in Georgia, and it is also true in South Carolina, where a new program to target select parents with outstanding...

Saying that, "We have had calls from all over the state of Georgia," employee Blue Cole points to the growing success of a fledgling state-sponsored program aimed at helping non-custodial parents find and keep work, stay out of trouble and make timely child support...

Donald Bren's two adult children weren't happy about the child support payments that their father made to their mother on their behalf over the years. Those payments were not awarded by a family court, but, rather, were sent to their mother in an out-of-court...

Apparently, some people will do just about anything to avoid paying child support, including adopting radical anti-government ideology that they say exempts them from the requirement to do so.In what Mark Potok, director of the Southern Poverty Law Center's...