In a Utopian scenario, everyone would pay what they owe and the dictionary would have a few less words synonymous to ‘dues’. But to keep reality alive, one knows that child support is one of those often defaulted monetary obligations; especially because of it’s frequently paid more in amount by the faulty party in a marriage.
There are a few basic guidelines one can follow when facing their ex’s non paying issues. Being a sensitive scenario, especially because it is post divorce; do keep in mind, that sending in the muscle, be it a hired hand or the new social partner would not really help much. It could be adversely detrimental and you could lose custody of your children for taking up the law in your own accord. The government has thankfully provided, by legal sanctions of the US legislature, to ensure child support payments. An out of court negotiation is however, yet the better way to get things done in family related legal knots. The first plan of action suggested is to speak to your ex spouse to see if situations have changed with them financially, or in fact a possible reasonable explanation for his delays and detrimental payment actions. Incase it’s a clue that they have a habitual problem, suggest setting up an automatic debit or an online recurring bill payment system to ease the problem on both fronts to see if these suggestions do a good deal of solution to the case.
Sometimes garnishing the wages of your ex, that is already a part of your divorce agreement; can be ensured; if not, have your lawyer take up the cause in another hearing. Never directly call on his attorney, as one knows that the contesting attorney knows the law better and can avail to some arm twisting legal procedure for giving further grounds to his battle; to avoid any legal confrontations scaling up against you, make it strictly lawyer to lawyer and parent to parent when communicating problems.
Complications in child support payments also have government support to help with suffering faced. They work in various ways, in accordance to individualistic Statelegislations; but basically, they ensure your payment and claim directly from the payee. Even if sometimes, there is a nominal fee, your payment is safe and charges that are to be filed for deviational payment issues are managed by the child support enforcement agency. If things are seriously deteriorating, and in turn twisting your good faith to it’s limits; have your attorney file a motion for contempt. This will assure that both your ex spouse and his lawyer wake up to face the music; it’s a criminal charge and a serious felony if found guilty of. After all, any judge hates it when his orders aren’t complied with.