Change On Federal Benefits Payments Could Leave Child Support Debtors With No Income

[bobbyblack]

41. Some of you have little inkling of which you speak here, allow me...

to explain. I just got crushed by a utility trailer on the job last February. For one year now, i have been unable to work. Surgeries, legal wrangling by the insurance company, and the bad fortune of not pulling but 2/3 of my pay, which was low anyway, because it was a temporary job. I get 200 dollars a week period, shut down my summer lawn and pool business, have sold most of what i own and STILL get 400 dollars plus fees and such taken from my check, and have a 200 dollar a month deficit being penalized and jacked up and am facing a court date and possible jail for being behind because of people just assuming i am a deadbeat, as many of you out there seem to bandy about in your simple solutions. It is disheartening to see such hardline attitudes applied ot every man who falls behind, thanks to circumstances beyond all control. Who suffers? The Family. The whole family, and in my case, i guarantee you my estranged daughter suffers the least. Her mother runs a very successful business in New York, and dates a Dentist on top of that.
i am disabled. Crippled. In court, and unable to work and still fighting to get disability payments after 30 years paying into it while a judge is ready to put me in jail while so many cheer because i didn't show the prescience to not get hurt at work and enter into a legal process that could take years. Really ya'll! I have my 2 kids by my wife with me, and she is now working two jobs after being a housewife for most her years is now struggling to keep our home together, child support notwithstanding. I am facing jail, losing everything in the meantime, and the Child Support folks are not at all easy to deal with, and my payments reductions were denied, pending the outcome of my case. They are hoping i sue and win so they can raise my payments, i have no doubt. to say that they are there for us dads doing our best when things don't work out is laughable. Deadbeats is too Black and White, and until you can see every case instead of the Nancy Grace versions that seem to dominate the discourse, you should pause in your rush to judge us all. i cannot be the only only one. The system has made a mess out me, and to them and to many of you it seems, it is best to punish me, and my family entire, to teach me a lesson about...what exactly did i do so wrong?