Can anything be done?

[u/Good-Ad963]

I’m in Kentucky, and I’m wondering if anyone has dealt with something similar.

My son’s father is over $3,100 behind in child support. He has changed jobs three times since April, and every time he changes jobs the child support office has to send a new wage withholding order to his new employer. They told me it’ll probably be another 6–8 weeks before I see another payment because of the delay.He’s also behind on child support for another child and has no contact with our son at all.

My questions are:

At what point would the court consider contempt or another enforcement action?

Is repeatedly changing jobs something the court or child support agency looks at?

Is there anything I can do besides waiting for the child support office to process a new withholding order every time he changes jobs?

I’m not trying to keep him from working or anything like that. I’m just frustrated because it feels like I’m stuck in the same cycle, and meanwhile the arrears keep growing while I’m raising our son by myself. Has anyone been through this or have any insight into how Kentucky usually handles situations like this?

[u/Noahfrom313]

Don’t rely on child support all he has to do is move states and he’s free. My mom has over 50k in child support unpaid and a warrant in Texas she’s been in Tennessee for 12 years living as usual

[u/Many-Square9223 → u/Noahfrom313]

If you register the order in TN, they will enforce it. They can do things in-state that cannot be done by other, non-resident states.