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Arrears Nightmare!!!

I am from the great state of Texas and I have been in the child support system for over 21yrs. I have 5 kids. 3 under 18, 2 are 21yrs old. First the arrears

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How do I get back child support from Ex in another state

I have had my son since he was 9 years old and got full custody. She runs from the Child Support Division and pays NO CS at all and they do nothing. Due

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How do I file a formal/informal complaint against DCSE Norfolk, VA.

Have an ongoing issue with DCSE Norfolk, VA. When my third oldest child graduated high school in June 2011. I mailed my paperwork to DCSE to have my case

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Child Support for Child Abroad

In 2006 my ex husband and the father of my daughter left me while we were living in Kuwait. We had been living there for some years. I waited for him

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Childs Father Fighting To Reduce Child Support Payments

My son's father and I were never married and he has never been a parent to my son. We've been through numerous placement schedules and he has never utilized

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How do I obtain specifics on back child support arrears I owe?

My son is 30 and my daughter is 27 and I have an arrearage of approximately $11,000 from NC. I live in AZ now and my ex-wife has never bothered me once

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Daughters father close to 100,000 in back child support

My daughters father simply refuses to pay for anything regarding his child. we lived less than 3 miles from her father and he never visited called or paid

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Chickens Coming Home to Roost!

Howardour popcorn and beer for this one. About 2 weeks ago my ex wife filed a pfa on me for a threat I made against her regarding the safety and welfare

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I want something done about his back child support!

My daughter is almost 14 and her biological father is well over $5,000 behind in child support. I haven’t received his $50.00 monthly payments since 2009.

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Mother said dad was dead but gets back child support

My mother and father divorced 1989 in Texas when I was 12 . they had five children. in 1990 mother said dad had died. I was on my own or in states care

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Being Overcharged for my child support order

My child support case is in GA and GA law states that How Child Support Amounts are Decided The NCP's total gross monthly income is multiplied by the

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He is $7,000 dollars behind in child support

My daughters father has never really been a part of her life. I filed for child support when she was 6 months old. (no paternity test was taken, he signed

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Overpaid Child Support

In December last year I missed one child support payment and my wife is suing me for contempt. In 2009 she modified the amount I pay and I have paid $1600.00

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Child Support Arrears in Summit County Akron Ohio

I owe rearages from as far back as 2001. My child support order was made while i was incarrcerated, and naturally iwas not present. Since then i have owed

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Wayne County CSEA Child Support not helping with military spouse

Obligor has been on active duty in Marines since 2009 (perhaps longer). My original child support order was filed in 2004. Since inception, obligor fails

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I need child support help and dont know where to start!

I am the custodial parent and I live in Tennessee where the original court order was put into place my daughters father is in Ohio I recently had a review

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How do I modify a child support order?

August of 2008 my divorce was finalized - I was ordered not only current support of my children but also back support even though he wiped out our accounts

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Receive An Increase in Child Support

I divorced my ex husband in november 2011, we have 2 children together ages 4 and 5 yrs old. The child support enforcement agency set the order for child

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How do i have child support restarted

My son graduated from high school in Hawaii in may of 2012, but turned 18 in December 2012. i spoke to 4 different child support enforcement agency people

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My children are owed $300,000 in back child support

I am the custodial parent of two children, one is 19 and the other is 17. I have had a judgement for child support since 2001. A judgement he has ignored

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Child Support Arrearage Forgiveness

I have a order that I would like to cancel. My daughter is now 23 years old and her father still owes $18900 in back child support and $34500 in interest.

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Marrying someone with child support arrears

My fiance has two children he currently pays child support and owes back child support as well from when he was out of work. He is employed now and has

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Overtime and child support

My name is Curtis Gildersleeve and I am trying to research and change the Ohio county laws on child support. I believe child support should be made, BUT

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Dead Beat mom

My husband and I take care of and house his 12 year old son and have done so for 20 months. He pays roughly $500.00 per month. All the while, he still

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How do you collect on an child support arrears

My daughter was born in 1990. In 1992, my ex-husband (at that time, not yet my ex) was sent to jail for domestic abuse (against myself). Needless to say,

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Trying to get by while paying child support

My ex and I divorced 7 years ago. At the time she was granted full custody of my 3 children. I was ordered to pay $300 a month in support. In 2008 my

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Am I going to receive back child support?

After having my son for eight years I finally have gone after child support. His father was there when he was born, signed the birth certificate and everything.

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Paying child support Arrears with a Pension Plan

My friend is incapacitated due to a stroke. (Can't walk, talk, and his thinking/mental facilities just aren't there anymore.) Bottom line - his child

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My ex-husband wants to modify the support order

I was in a serious car accident last year and my ex-husband (residential parent) wants to help me modify my support order. We work with the Medina County

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Closed child support case

Divorced in 97, I made the mistake of believing my ex-husband and letting him have our son 'for the weekend'. Went to get him sunday w/ police, went to

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Still paying child support

I have never been in my daughter's life much, due to the fact that I was a drug addict and her mom would always have an excuse for me not speading any

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He signed the birth certificate without my knowledge

Hi Im a single mother of a 2 yr old boy and a 5yr old girl in Los Angeles ca... When I got pregnant with my 5 year old my ex bf wanted me to abort so I

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How long does it take to get the results of a DNA test?

I was just curious how long it takes for the results of a DNA test to come back. My boyfriend had to submit DNA 3 weeks ago and we haven't heard anything.

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Where is Hayden's Money

I took my baby daddy out for child support almost a year ago. He had not paid a cent since we split up in October of 2010. I had called my child support

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Percentage that can be withdrawn from paycheck for support in Cuyahoga County?

I've been divorced and support my 15 year old triplets. My ex refuses to work! I pay her alimony along with medical support for the kids. She took me

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Can I lower the monthly payment without the mother present?

I am unemployed and have been since child support was established. I am ordered to pay $129.12 for my one son, he will be 2 years old in October. His grandparents

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Ordered to pay Child Support on SSDI

My name is Chris Palladino, and as of a year and a half ago I was ordered by the courts to pay child support while I only receive SSDI. A representative

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Can child support interest be forgiven?

I live in TN and we were divorced in California, where ex still resides. My daughter is 34 with 3 children. My original amout was approx $350.00 month

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Back Support Never The Same

Hi, I have been paying child support since 2000. At the time I began, alaska state was taking 450 per month from my paychecks.I live in Tennessee. In 2003

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When is child support situation ever going to Stop

I am a mother of 3 children and I have been paying child support since 2003. To start off with, I was in arrears due to their father's attorney waiting

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Will Ohio Take Our Oklahoma State Tax Refund

My boyrfriend ,John, of 8yrs. We have 6 kids together an we have lived in Oklahoma for a little over a year now. Originally from Ohio, he has 6other kids

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My 18 year old twin daughter moved in with her father

My 18 year old twin daughter just moved in with her father whom did nit have any visitation with her for 15 years nor did he have any contact. She started

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Very unusual child visitation circumstance

I was married in Jan '11, after discovering she was pregnant....we were married for 4 months....never lived together due to job (I couldn't move and she

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Child Support that I really don't owe in Illinois

OK my ex husband and I had a daughter in 1990 when I just turned 18. We were divorced in 1992. I was 20 then and dumb as a box of rocks. I know ignorance

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Unemployed and forced from my kids' lives

I am so lost and upset right now I don't know where to begin or who to talk to. I was married for the first time in 1993 in SC then moved to Ga. In 2005,

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She turned me into DHR for child support in Alabama

My wife and I are getting divorced. We haven't yet because I don't have the money. I've been off work since Sept. 2008. I got injured at work. I received

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Charged as abandonment

My name is Mario I just left Stafford, VA JD&R court where I was given an amount of 18k money owed as rearrage, even though there has always been a joint

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Will "He" ever be made to pay the child support he owes?

Every time DCSE takes him to court there is a continuance. My daughter is now 15 years old and I am wondering if we will ever see any of the money he owes.

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How can I terminate my Texas child support case with the father?

I live in Dallas, Texas, and last summer, I filed for child support without telling or warning the father of my two young boys. I thought it would be good

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