Sunday, April 7, 2013

Child Support: Four Tips to Help Get Cash from Self-Employed, Ex-Spouse


  What's the easiest way to get child support payments? Have the money taken out of your ex-spouse's weekly paycheck.

Called garnishment of wages, studies have shown it is the most effective way to collect child support in the United States. It's often used by government agencies -- like a community's child support enforcement office -- and by private collection firms who get paid to track down a parent who is behind on payments. The second most effective way to get your ex to pay child support is to use a credit bureau, which then works to collect the money. 


But what if your ex is self-employed?

That's a question faced by millions of Americans, whose former spouses say they dont' make enough money and can't pay what the courts have ordered them to pay.  About three-fourths of all parents who receive child support payments are not getting it. all or any of it. A recently released report by the U.S. Census puts the figure at 77 percent of custodial parents. A poll for www.Divorce360.com, conducted by GFK Roper Public Affairs and Media, put the figure at closer to 70 percent.  While most parents who receive court-ordered child support are women, when it comes to nonpayment of that money, there is no statistical difference between the sexes in delinquency, according to the census. read more at:  
http://www.divorce360.com/divorce-articles/child-support/collection/policing-the-self-employed-for-child-support.aspx?artid=663

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