Child Support Dodgers

Jack Smith

Comp.

Mrs. Janis

November 12, 2013

Bail and Go To Jail

Think back to your childhood and remember how much parents have done. Imagine if that childhood involved only one parent. This unfortunately is a reality for some. Sometimes a single parent is a widow, or widower. Unfortunately, most of the time it is a parent attempting to dodge paying monthly child support. If their attempt fails the dodger is put into prison, and the money they owe is still unpaid. Some are pushing for a new law concerning this exact situation. The reformed act forces the dodger to pay back their family.

Usually the parent who is leaving their family does it early before the child is born, or after the child’s birth. After the police are notified of the dodger, a warrant is put out of their arrest. Most of the time the dodger will skip town and police in surrounding states will keep on the lookout for this person. If this person is caught they are extradited to the state they fled. This law helps enforce child support dodgers to pay. If the dodger is incarcerated they obviously cannot pay their debt. The family is again left without a source of funding. With out a source of funding, a great deal of stress is put on the family to make up that sum. In most cases, the family is forced to live with other family members.

The biggest conflict with putting dodgers in jail is that they are unable to pay back the money they owe to their families. The average amount of child support due per year is $5,960. Without having child support funding a single parent has to pay for their child alone, as opposed to splitting the cost with your partner. The single parent is then left with the job of making up the other half of their partner’s money to fund their children. Some law makers are trying to develop a way to make dodgers who are in prison, pay back their families. Today, none of the laws are in action.

Every year there are thousands of families left to cope with one parent....