Even if you do not always have the money to make your
child support
payments, you are required by law to do so. Parents who are negligent
when paying support risk not only harming their children, but imposing
legal sanctions on themselves as well.
Depending on what state you call home, there are different penalties ranging
in degree for failure to pay child support. For example, one Amendment
allows the IRS to garnish wages, or remove the amount needed for child
support, from income taxes each year. This will only happen to those parents
who have failed to make payments during a tax year and the IRS must be
petitioned to garnish the wages.
Even if a parent lives in another state, people can work with that state’s
child support department to force the parent to pay any monies that are
due. This is due to the fact that paying child support is a legal requirement
once a judge authorizes a support order.
Should parents come to believe that the amount they are paying is unfair,
it is their responsibility to speak to the court. With a
Raleigh family law attorney
at their side, parents can request to have payments altered under the
right circumstances, but are not advised to just stop making child support
payments every month.
Have you stopped paying child support because you can no longer afford
to make payments?
Contact a Raleigh child support lawyer
from our team immediately to seek legal representation as you may be facing
legal ramifications for your failure to pay.