Child Support

I think that it is very fare for a person who is deliquent on child support payments to be hit with a felony. People who are deliquent on child support should have their faces plastered on tv, and billboards to show what bad parents they are. With the line of work I do I've seen credit reports where then men are deliquent by at least 20,000..I even had a client who bought a home and put his business under hos wife name to advoid paying child support..

Depending on the amount owed, I do not think that's too harsh. Some who have child suppirt arrears legitimately cannot keep up with support obligations. However, there are others who simply refuse to pay. Those folk should be prosecuted criminally.

In the US it is up the the discression of the county you live in. But anything over $5,000 can be filed as a felon warrant for non payment of child support. Yes I support this. I just wrote on finally again catching up with my deadbeat ex. He owes over $25,000 in back support, he has never paid a dime and he also hids so he don't have to pay. A man can move to another state have warrants in another states, but not be arrested in the state he is in when he is stopped by the police, because the warrant is only good in that state it is issued in. That is why once they get $5,000 behind a federal warrant can be filed for there arrest. In the state of Indiana unless you are an TANF then you are screwed if you want the federal warrant issued, you have to hire you own attorney. It is bull, been fighting with the support enforcement office here for a federal warrant.

Without a doubt, it should be a felony. There are way too many men, & women for that matter not doing right by their children. In Florida, they appear to be on the ball with making these people pay & pay big. In NYC, I guess because there might be a lot more people that owe, it's a slower process to catch-up with everyone. Hmmmmmm, who knows! .... Have a great weekend:-)

I do believe that it should be a felony indeed. It is really not fair for these fathers who have children and just run free like they have no responsibility whatsoever. Then, not only does the mother have to be father and mother to them, but she also hast to find a way to provide for their needs too. I think it is sick.

Yes, I think it should be a felony. I'm sick of parents (both men and women) laying down and having a child but not owning up to their responsibilty. If it became a felony then maybe people would take it more seriously. I'm a single mom and if I don't come up with the money to feed my child then it's consider neglect and I get locked up SOOOO if his father doesn't come up with the money to feed his kid then he gets to walk around a free man?! NOPE, it should be considered neglect too. Luckily my Ex pays up and I don't have to worry about it.

YES!!! YES!!! And YES again!!! I truly believe that it should be a felony with my whole heart. It's ridiculous that these (wo)men could just run around as if they have no responsibilities in life and not pay for their children's needs. My ex owes about $29,000 in arrears and counting. It's sickening! But God don't like ugly, that's why his life will never be right until he does right by his son.

If it were a felony, then many parents would end up paying what was owed to their children. They helped to create the child and should be forced to help take care of them. What makes me mad, is once they are caught and forced to pay, some of them quit their jobs to still get out of paying it. The child did not ask to be brought into this world, so I do feel they should be taking care of by both parents. If that means there is a divorce the parent required to pay support should be forced to do so no matter what.

It should have been a felony a long time ago for people that owe back child support or for those who purposely avoid paying from the day the court ordered it. Deadbeat parents should be locked up for not helping with raising the child they helped bring into the world. I am glad that they are doing something about it.

Oh heck no. It is isn't to harsh at all. I think back support should be a felony. Unless the parent is currently paying something. Something is better than nothing. But if a parent refuses to pay child support I do think they should be thrown in jail and pay a hefty fine til they start paying child support.

The problem with throwing deadbeat dad's (or mom's) in jail, is that we (the taxpayer) end up paying for it out the wazoo. It make's no sense, unless they the deadbeat's post bond and get out of jail, and the bail money goes to the supporting parent. If they just sit their a$$ in jail, I would rather they put them to work cleaning the freeway's in exchange for child support money that is owed.

I think it should be a felony, my ex husband was almost 5000 dollars behind and they didn't do anything until I called the domestic relations office every day for 2 weeks strait.

I would hope that if they do make it a felony that they set it up to where it will only be a felony under certain situations. For example, if the payer has made no payments and is totally absent for a certain amount of time. In other situations, there are also alot of hard working non custodial parents out there who owe alot of child support and are paying what they can. I have a friend who had an illness and was off work for a whole year and couldn't make his payments so of course he got behind. There are reasons.

I think it depends on the situation. I have too many guy friends who are great fathers yet their exes are bi****s and they did everything in their power to screw them up and stick them with really high child support payments. These poor men are trying so hard to keep up with the payments that sometimes they can't even eat and some have had to move back in with their parents. Sometimes a lot of women can be hateful and abusive toward their exes and they try to use their kids as a way to get revenge or they do it out of spite becaue they werent' able to hang on to their man. This is totally true and I am a female, but i would never try to be a bi*** like that.

It's harsh, but if mommy can't take care of the kids, daddy has to help too.

No I do not believe it is to harsh at all I agree that they should pay they are the Dad or Mum which ever the case so they should help support the Children

I will suggest an alternative. Forced labour for those who evade child support. They had fun in doing children than they should be able to support them.

i think they should just pay making them a felony just going to make the situation worse.

It's my understanding, that in Illinois, it is a felony.

hi how are you doing? i'm ok i think that it should not be a felony because we all make mistakes . i know that there are alot of parents male and female that are put in situation that child support have got them jammed up. from a child that a male name is on a brith certifate and he not the father to female who child get taken away by whatever means and they have to pay the state . to many other situation that are out there . and believe me there are many i know. But people will not benfit by getting a felony because if they want to get a ajob most jobs that pay nice pay will turn you away because of that and the other party will or may not ever get the money they so are looking for.