Resident Aliens who fail to pay child support

[Frusterated3]

What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)?
I live in Florida but had a child with my now ex-husband in Alaska. My daughter is 12 years old and we have been chasing him for child support ever since she was just under a year old. It has been documented on three separate occasions that he intentionally quit his job because they had started to garnish his paychecks. Everytime I have received any payment it is because I found him myself and contacted the state of Alaska's CSED and relayed the information. 12 years and nothing has happened to him and he is over $21,000 in arrears and I do not collect welfare...it seems that's why I can't get any agency to assist me in collecting. What I don't understand is how a state like Texas will arrest the father who is just a few thousand dollars behind on his support but a resident alien who can't even vote can willfully and intentionally evade his child support obligations and the tax payers have been paying to "Track" him down for my daughter...WHY. He is obviously not intending on paying me a cent if he can get away with it...and he has for over a decade. I promise if immigration went over and knocked on his door and told him he had 60 days to cooperate with child support, he would start paying me! Where do I start??? I have already contacted the FBI about the Dead Beat Dad Act, but they said they seldom prosicute unles it is $50,000 or more. Where does that leave my daughter? Is there anything else I can do?

 

[Isis1]

resident alien or not, when someone doesn't want to pay support, they will do anything and everything to NOT pay. it's just something you have to accept. you are doing what you are spposed to do. does it suck? yes. you are supporting your daughter on your own, is it hard, only you can answer that. you can wait until the amount hits to $50K, or just let child support enforcement to do their job.

 

[LdiJ]

resident alien or not, when someone doesn't want to pay support, they will do anything and everything to NOT pay. it's just something you have to accept. you are doing what you are spposed to do. does it suck? yes. you are supporting your daughter on your own, is it hard, only you can answer that. you can wait until the amount hits to $50K, or just let child support enforcement to do their job.

I absolutely agree. If someone is totally determined NOT to pay, then they will make it harder than heck to collect from them. It doesn't matter if they are a resident alien, legal resident, or citizen. It won't be easy to collect from them unless it gets to the point where they want to have an actual "life" and not be on the run and skipping from job to job all the time.

Of course, those are the same people who cannot own anything, or save anything, because it would be subject to seizure or levy for the non-payment of the support, so they generally end up as very poor old people too.

 

[TinkerBelleLuvr]

Can't CSE intercept his "oil dividend" check if he's up in Alaska?

 

[notforgotten]

Of course, those are the same people who cannot own anything, or save anything, because it would be subject to seizure or levy for the non-payment of the support, so they generally end up as very poor old people too.

LdiJ:
I wish this would be said more often than the usual"if they don't want to pay then they won't."
It may give some weight to not paying one's child support.

Moreover, I hope your right as I haven't received one red cent ever, from a U.S. citizen in Nevada. Boy do I wish he lived in Texas.

 

[Frusterated3]

They have attempted to intercept his PFD, but last year he did not meet the qualifications and this year knowing it was just going to be taken, he didn't even apply for the funds which means I won't see any of the stimulas money either since they are tied together. CSED has now informed me that they are trying to get a court order that would force him to apply for the yearly PFD so I can get something for my daughter.

It's just frusterating because I KNOW he works and has assests he just has family that protects him and has everything in their names vs. his.

Thank you for the Texas comment...you're correct if he was in Texas he'd be behind bars. See it's not that child support cannot locate him...we have his address and phone number, they just won't go and do anything to him the way the current guidelines are set. Why I stress the fact that he is a resident alien is because, it seems like there should be a way for immigration to be getting involved at this point. Does anyone know? I know they have denied his passport so he can't leave the country, but he is at a felony level of child support, I thought immigrant who are not yet US citizens can get deported for felonies?

 

[CourtClerk]

At some point, you're going to have to stop consuming yourself with what he's not doing (paying child support) and go on and live your life regardless of whether he pays or not. If you get it one day, great, if you don't, oh well.

Let CSE chase him, you... go do something else. You'll drive yourself crazy trying to figure out why other people do or don't do what they should (including the government).