California’s Third District Court of Appeals has upheld the Yolo County Superior Court’s previous ruling that a state law requiring parents to pay child support for children placed in foster care.  The father, Terrell Lowery, tried to argue that the exception which currently exists when the parent is a victim of a minor child’s crime [...]

Let’s dispense, if for only a moment, the fact that debtor’s prisons were outlawed a long, long time ago in this country.  Let’s forget for a just a moment that you’re not supposed to be imprisioned for failure to pay a debt.
Let’s talk about the disgrace that is a number of Judges in Berks County, [...]

Childless Georgia resident, Frank Hatley, is 50-years old.  He has spent the last 13-months in jail for failure to pay child support despite the fact that DNA has proven him to not be the father of any child.  A Georgia judge has finally released him from jail and from the responsibility of paying child support [...]

Missouri has just passed a new state law which decriminalizes non-payment of child support for parents provided that they don’t have a serious criminal history.
An alternative to jail, parents who fall behind on their child support obligations will be enrolled in a program that provides vocational training. If appropriate for the circumstances, substance-abuse counseling [...]

Parents that fail to pay child support are subject to jail time in most states, which of course means they can’t work and continue to rack up child support payments that they can’t pay, an ingenious system that doesn’t help anyone.
New state statutes in Wisconsin will allow sheriffs to shackle nonpaying parents with electronic monitoring [...]