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- Subject: Re: Making child suppo work - was: PARENTS REALIZING CHILD SUPPORT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.174806.21427@oneb.almanac.bc.ca>
- From: kmcvay@oneb.almanac.bc.ca (Ken Mcvay)
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 92 17:48:06 GMT
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- In article <1ej42oINNc4c@skeena.ucs.ubc.ca> buckland@ucs.ubc.ca (Tony Buckland) writes:
-
- > I'd like to see support payments made and collected by the courts.
- > That way, the person granted support could rely on actually receiving
- > the ordered payments, and the person ordered to pay support would
- > find the weight of the law descending rapidly on their head if they
- > tried not make a payment. It's time a support order was realized
- > to be an _order_.
-
- The problem would be amusing if it weren't tragic at the same time, Tony.
- The courts often issue orders, but these orders are often functionally
- worthless. The gov't agency that is supposed to enforce these orders not
- only doesn't, they show little or no interest in actually DOING something..
-
- I know of a case where orders have been in force for _years_, but the amount
- collected is nearly nil. The ex-husband works 'under the table' in order to
- avoid the attachment orders, does not use his chequing account to avoid that
- attachment order, does not file income tax forms to avoid _that_
- attachment.... well, you get the idea. Eventually, if he doesn't leave the
- country, his ass will end up in jail, but it will probably take another four
- or five years to get _that_ done. In the meantime, he takes his
- under-the-table cash while telling welfare he's down and out...
-
- The relevant laws are worthless. When this bum gets a new job, for instance,
- under the table, the ex-wife doesn't know about it, unless she can afford a
- private detective to follow the bastard around every time he switches. Since
- she is usually impoverished because the bastard won't meet his obligations,
- she can't afford to find out where he's working. Since she can't find out
- where he's working, the government "enforcement" agency shrugs it off.
-
- Legal Aid, which will help the husband avoid supporting his ex and children
- for nothing, won't help the wife collect on outstanding court orders - the
- case I know of involves back support in excess of $15K, and absolutely
- _no-one_ will help her collect it.
-
- I hope Lisa's new support group helps - I have delighted visions of the
- wives who face this situation providing the assets needed to run these cheap
- bastards to ground and make them accountable.... alas, the folks she needs
- to reach aren't likely to be here on the net, but it's a start....
-
- Any legal eagles out there who can do some pro bono work for women in this
- situation, like drafting orders for them, etc?
-
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