I got laid off from my job last week and would like to know some information about paying child support?
Question: I live in Texas and need to know if I still pay child support if I got laid off. If so, what is the percentage? Also, I will be applying for unemployment if that helps at all. Will a percentage be taken out of my unemployment?
Answer: Child support does NOT go away and there is no “percentage”. It’s not a loan payment. If it’s anything like CA, the only deal you can make with the child support office is a payment schedule for when they’ll take money out of your check. If you owe $500 a month, they will divide it up into deductions from your check, but they will still take the $500 a month. I’ve seen them take entire paychecks. You need to discuss it when them ASAP.
When you don’t make your payments and the next time you get a job, in about 2-3 months, they will find out where you work because your employer has to report the wages for taxes purposes. When they find you, they will attach your check and take EVERYTHING they can. If you don’t get a job and you can’t make payments, then they go after occupational and drivers licenses. They make it so you can’t work. If you want your licenses back, they require payment of all child support AND a fee to get your license back. Even if you go to jail, child support still accrues. Even if you move out of state, they will find you because the states work together. There is no escaping it.
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While I can’t tell you 100% for sure in Texas, by and large, as long as you don’t get delinquent on your child-support, they can’t go after your Unemployment.
When they go after your pay and put a lean or whatever it is called upon it, it is USUALLY because the guy just stops paying and drops off the map…
Remember… When they go after your pay, that is after many months of non-payment and the recipient of the Child-Support goes to court and gets a judge to issue a ruling on the matter.
YOU MUST BE 1000% PRO ACTIVE HERE! If you just let things slide or, heaven forbid, try to talk things out with the baby-mamma you will get FU*KED when she gets pissed about something and goes to a judge.
My godfather’s brother got fu*ked in New Mexico because he couldn’t pay his baby-mamma legal support because he worked under the table so they "Came to an agreement" amongst themselves and he paid her in cash from whatever he earned…
Well… There was no documentation on the agreement… There were no receipts or evidence of payment… So he did something to piss her off and she went to the courts and said "Look, he was ordered to pay and he didn’t…"
"But I gave her cash! We had an agreement!" was his response to which the Judge said "Touch Sh*t Moron! You have to be the one to prove you gave her ANYTHING because legally, you’re in default of the judgement and legally you now owe her every penny you don’t have evidence of paying."
I’m paraphrasing, of course, but that is what happened…
He kept his child clothes and fed and kept a roof over his head but because there was no evidence of his giving her the money, legally, he never paid her a dime… So he LEGALLY "Owed" her many years of back child support and she used the courts to go after his pay.
For the life of me I’ll never understand why people make life so much harder for themselves in the long run by trying to beat the system.
YOU must get a lawyer or get your lawyer to file a petition before a judge for something sounding like "Hardship" and you MUST get EVERYTHING in WRITING from THE COURTS.
You can inform your x or baby-mamma that you will be having a petition filed before the courts to adjust the schedule and amount of child-support due to your lost income but get a lawyer A.S.A.P. because if she beats you to court, she’ll have the upper hand and can spin things how she wants it spun.
I’m a chick… I’m friends/family with a lot of people that have just gotten RAPED by the courts because they procrastinated and let the nutter of the two get to court FIRST.
YOU MUST BE VERY PROACTIVE HERE!
Don’t do ANYTHING to piss her off…
Don’t do ANYTHING to piss off the courts…
Get your ducks in a row and take care of this before you end up with your unemployment garnished.
I’m sorry if I’m speaking down to you but I don’t know you and as someone that has seen a situation like this go VERY WRONG in the past, I need to make sure you understand.