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Updated: 12:59 PM Aug 10, 2007
Child Support and Cell Phone Records
Augusta County One in four children in Virginia is involved in a child support enforcement case. Posted: 5:47 PM Aug 7, 2007Reporter: Shane Symolon Email Address: ssymolon@whsv.com |
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I would like to say to you that don't pay child support, please pay so that your child can joint sports and bands and other things too that they enjoy, quit saying that your sick and sad and whatever, cut the crab and do it, you are resposible for your kids in this world not the goverment and social security. I believe people should do their job caring for their kids than the goverment.My fiance exwife owed about 27,000 for child support and she cry to social security for help, she smoke she drink and she doesn't work, where she get the money to buy those things, she leaches from everybody else, now she's applying for social security to pay for that,We need to stop this because soon we will not afford to pay for everybody else stuff. I have 4 children of my own and his three and I work even though I don't want to but I have a responsibility and obligation to my kids and their dads pay child support no matter what. you bring children in this world, and is your job not anybody else.
It's bad enough I'm not working because of an injury and I can't pay my child support and in the past years I've filed and DCSE has taken it all. Which I have no problem with that except when the government is willing to actually give us a stimulus check that also goes to DCSE. I understand that I do own for my children but, I don't think it's fair when they tell us we the parents are actually gonna get this money. The IRS needs to make things more clearer than they do.
Many custodial parents can't afford cell phones - some can't afford land lines. Maybe deadbeats shouldn't have cell phones til they pay up. In 2005, 70.4% of child support cases had arrears. About 85% of noncustodial parents are men. More women and children live in poverty than men. In 2005, national unpaid child support totaled $106.6 billion - only $24.4 billion in current and back support was collected against that year's current support owed of $29.1 billion, leaving a $4.7 billion shortfall for that year alone. The total national food stamp budget totaled $51 billion - food stamps for intact and single parent families. Frankly, it's disgusting that so many men have financially abandoned their children. It's criminal. It's selfishness. In this case, at least 52,000 deadbeats could afford cell phones, but they wouldn't support their own children. Shame on them. So when this national program gets implemented, will deadbeats simply switch to disposable cell phones?
Peggy, respectfully, you have absolutely no clue as to what you're talking about. As both a Paralegal for a domestic relations attorney AND a non-custodial parent, I can tell you that this is ALL ABOUT MONEY and nothing else.
I can also tell you that DCSE has been breaking the laws relating to the Unauthorized Practice of Law and screwing with interest rates on arrearages and many other things. That's why I filed a federal class action lawsuit against DCSE in Harrisonburg.
I'm most curious about Sarah's comments. DCSE refused to give me a number of the total amount of arrearages they had on their books on 1 July, 1995, citing privacy issues, but no problem handing out personal information to a commercial entity on 225,000 non-custodial parents.
The public at large is rather ignorant on this issue.
I don't think that it is fair or right for cell phone companies to be handing out numbers. And isn't that a confidentiality issue?? When you call your cell phone company about your account you have to give tons of information for them to even talk to you to prove that it is you. And if you are not on the acct they won't give you any information. So I do not see how this is legal.
Furthermore, I know lots of people try to get out of paying child support. But my husband pays child support to his ex who says she lives with her parents but actually lives where ever and leaves my step son with her parents. During the summer we have him most of the time. We pay for everything for him, and yet still have to pay child support. The mother doesn't work and it is a known fact she does drugs, but yet we can't get custody and have him a majority of the time and still pay child support. Maybe people would pay support like they should if the system would help them from getting screwed.
To whom it may concern, I think they are not hard enough on the delinquent parents. They give them time spans of 90 days. They know where they work and still don't get the money. I don't think it's fair to the kids. And if the delinquent parent is working self-employed, they don't bother him or her, because they are self-employed. That's not right. They need to be more strict then lenient. It's hard raising kids but yourself. I have done it for 16 and half years and it's my job to do what I can for my kids. These delinquent parents need to realize that it takes two to take care of children and not worry only about themselves. They go and take away license. Well thats ok but they are still gonna drive. It doesn't matter. They should not be able to register a car and have tags. Thank you for your time.