I have never gotten how throwing a deadbeat parent in jail produces child support.
“I have never gotten how throwing a deadbeat parent in jail produces child support.”
Yeah, well- the law’s the law.
And to think there was no trial by Jury even for the Civil “trial” which obviously was over more than the $20 mentioned in the dusty-old-forgotten 7th Amendment...
“In Suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise re-examined in any Court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common law.”
Family court just issues orders... very efficient...
I have never gotten how throwing a deadbeat parent in jail produces child support.
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The purpose of throwing them in jail is not for them to produce child support, but to punish them for not paying it in the past.
Course there is an easy way to avoid paying child support for your kids and not face jail time. It’s called marriage.
It works. LBJ’s plan does not.
They're probably being charged with a felony which would require an arrest and time in front of a judge.
I used to be appointed by the court to represent deadbeat parents. In my experience the court never even threatened jail unless there was overwhelming evidence of substantial income together with plenty of evidence of attempts to evade the payment.
The scenario would be that the judge would give the defendant 15 days to pay something like $5,000 towards the arrearage or go to jail. In nearly every case, the money would miraculously show up before the 15 days were up.
A good percentage of "deadbeat" dads don't pay child support because they have no income to pay it with. Losing your job does not reduce your child support payment expectations. If the only work you can get pays less than your child support payments, that's also your tough luck.