Child Support

A child support case involving an unemployed father from Rome, Georgia, is putting a spotlight on a very important question: What is the most effective way for our society to ensure that child support gets paid in a timely fashion to the children who need it?...

When parents are married and one becomes unemployed, the family scrimps and saves, cuts back on things and works through the tough economic period. When a divorced or unmarried parent loses a job, it can have serious legal repercussions. That's because unmarried...

On any given day, 500 Georgia parents face incarceration for failing to pay child support. They are usually jailed on civil contempt charges and are not given an attorney to represent them. One such Georgia father is challenging the legal basis for incarcerating...

Late last month, Oksana Grigorieva filed a child support enforcement action against Mel Gibson in the midst of their very public child custody dispute over their one-year-old daughter. Gibson had been ordered to pay $20,000 a month in child support but had not done so...

An Aiken County, South Carolina, child support enforcement program initiated in 2008 has helped the Aiken County Sheriff's Office and courts close more than 2,000 warrants in the past two years. The "deadbeat dad" project targets fathers who owe more than $20,000 in...

An extremely unusual child support lawsuit is coming up for trial in California. Two grown children of billionaire land developer Donald Bren are suing him for $400,000 per month in back child support. Each. For fourteen years. The total amount sought by the two...

Here is another example of the sort of drama we all hope to avoid in our personal lives and in the practice of family law. According to news reports, a man from Chicago recently jumped from a third-storey window to avoid paying $5,979.66 in child support. 35-year-old...

Facing unprecedented levels of unpaid child support, many states are seeking new methods for improving child support collection. Several states, for example, are going after casino winnings as a source of income from which to collect. Indiana recently passed a law to...

In today's economy, everyone's dealing financial pressure. Whether you are paying or receiving spousal and child support payments, you may be facing a lot of challenges these days. Either the payor or the payee could be out of a job or dealing with reduced hours and a...

If you're the target of any type of legal action and you don't show up in court, you run the risk of losing by default. This is called a "default judgment." Earlier this month, R&B singer and late-night talk show host Brian McKnight learned that lesson the hard...