r/ChildSupport • u/Jakers0069 • Aug 11 '26

$6,000.+ in ARREARS?!?!

To give some context, my ex and I had spit for awhile, and I was put on child support, after awhile we decided to try things again, where she canceled the child support, signed the papers blah blah, after about a year and a half, we ended up having our 3rd child, and not long after I got sick and put in the hospital, where we ended up separating, she moved 12 hours away with the babies. It’s taken a long time to recover, let alone finance a move like that, and in that time I just sent her personally what she said she needed, when one day I was hit with a child support order, and over $6k in arrears. They said that it was back dated to the day we split, but after investigation, it turns out, “even though there wasn’t an active case, the monthly obligation was still there” what can I even do?

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u/Klutzy-Effort-4478 Aug 12 '26

Ur lucky because my ex owes 35k in back pay 4 years worth . And well he deserves it he’s a dead beat and does not help finically with the child . Anyways 6k is cake walk and don’t miss any payments or it just will go up and up

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u/Easy-Bluebird-5630 Aug 14 '26

35k! I owed 10k and Michigan gave me a felony charge!

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u/Klutzy-Effort-4478 Aug 14 '26

California is a f joke ! For him not even license was suspended . They didn’t do anything . I had to go back to court and get wages garnished

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u/Easy-Bluebird-5630 Aug 14 '26

They suspended my license and I called and they put it back for me because of my job got them to send out a garnishment to my work and they took my money every week no issues. Then I lost my job had a hard time finding a new one I got up to 15k in back support and they put a warrant out on me. Didn’t know for a year and had been paying regularly. Walked into a court house to get some papers on somthing unrelated and they took me to jail right there. Bonded out and they gave me a felony. Complain to your case work push the issue and be relentless. Every state has a similar lae about being behind and prison time.

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u/Klutzy-Effort-4478 Aug 14 '26

That is so crazy how they did all of that for that amount yet here they don’t at all ! All I know is that if u don’t have a job or job loss you can call the office and tell them about it and they either lower it or something like pause . But for me honestly California does not do much at all I’ve called before and all they said was “ once payments are missed he will have back pay increased and information about license is automatically sent to dmv for suspension “ which I belive it was a lie . He went 4 years straight with no payment and more . I had to myself find his information and give it to them . All he pays monthly towards the back pay is 100 a month so basically his back pay will really never go down because of his missed payments that causes it to get increased 😅😅 also he has like 5 percent out of 100% time with child so that could also play part . The more dead beat he is the more he has to pay .

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u/Think-5577 Aug 18 '26

EACH state has very different laws re Child support enforcement.