Some more child support facts

[Jim]

Based on figures since welfare started in 1965, $11 TRILLION has been wasted on welfare over a 44 year period. Nothing has been shown for it except that more people are on welfare and living in poverty. Child support, being another welfare entitlement where the father has to be removed from the family, is working its way towards the same failed goals, at the cost of destruction of the family and children. Child support enforcement has been averaging $10 Billion per year nationwide (federal & state) since 1975 (34 years), or at least $350-$500 Billion. (This doesn't include the ancillary expenses like TRILLIONS in lawyers' fees, mental health expert fees, real estate fees, insurance company profits, medical insurance profits, etc.).

Obviously this is a planned program to feed the states' pork. Now with the economy in tatters and states feeding at the stimulus trough, you will see more and more aggressive child support enforcement, including raising child support to take 100% of a person's check (not on take home, but on the gross) because the book-keeping procedures will allow the states to submit artificially-inflated child support arrearage numbers to the feds to get more and more federal reimbursement incentive funding to put into the general treasuries.

Thanks to DadsRites for emailing me this.....

[Barbara]

The post Majority child support laws in Massachusetts over age 18 is unfair do to no one makes married couple's pay it.According to Chief Justice Paula M. Carey....theres no state intervention in cases who are married Wouldn't this be discrimination or a violation of our rights?What can we do its making criminals of otherwise law abiding citizens. in this economy its hard enough to take care of normal family life and bills never mind the interest and penalties DOR/CSE adds on. In this case all states should be the same. Mass doesn't pay for there state kids or foster kids. so why should divorced parents after age 18 unless we choose to? >

[Jim]

The IV-D program is grounded in both federal and state statutes as well as judicial rules and procedures. The Child Support Enforcement (CSE) within the Department of Health & Human Services of each state is the single state agency charged with administering the IV- D program in the respective states. The federal statutory basis for the program is U.S. Public Law 93-647, Title IV-D of the Social Security Act. Each state has a similar state statutory basis.

The policies and procedures that govern most aspects of the child support program in each state are the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) in 45 CFR, Parts 232 and 301 to 308; state child support statutes; and state Rules of Court. Additionally, existing policies and procedures may be affected by case law as well as court and judicial proceedings.

No where in the Code of Federal Regulations or Federal Child Support statutes (42 U.S.C. Sections 659-671) does it allow for the incarceration/imprisonment of anyone for child support debts.