Step Talk

My ex husband is left with about $400 a month after all the child support is taken, the medical insurance is taken (court ordered insurance). I have even contacted AG to ask for leniency for him. They said that it wasn't about my money, it was about the interest that he owed them for the arrears. They seized his bank account that he held jointly with his wife. Their house payment bounced. And I am not even getting all this money!!!

My husband now also has arrears because he had been injured at work and could not work. Four years later, he is still fighting with his back problems, even has a back surgery scheduled for Wednesday. But they would not give him a disability clearance because the doctor said he was 74% disabled and they have a 75% minimum. Yet the doctors still will not release him to work. To top it off, after five years, he found out that he had a son from a one night stand. They ordered five years of arrears be paid for a child he never knew about. If he was to work a $20 an hour job right now, he would bring home less than $700 a month to live on and we have two children to support. The entire system sucks!

"Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your head." ...Martin Mull

My DH's ex is the same amount in arrears and CSE is trying to get a hold of her but is having problems since she is in another country. My DH's Attorney said that she could pay her CS amount plus about 200.00 per month towards arrears if she would agree to it but she hasn't. I have the feeling this is going to eventually happen to BM but she is too stubborn to negotiate. She hasn't even tried to pay it.

Has your DH try to negotiate with CSE or has he been avoiding the responsibility and just flat out refuse to pay it? I don't see why CSE doesn't give your DH the same option my DH's ex has. To pay his regular CS and and extra 100.00 per month toward the arreages.

I think it is amazing how harder the system is on the fathers than the mothers.

"GO BACK TO YOUR BRIDGE YOU EVIL TROLL. YOU HAVE NO POWERS HERE"

I know they can garnish your wages, your bank accounts, even take your property to satisfy the debt, but I think when garnishing wages that they have to leave some minimum amount for your own subsistence.

Check out this link by Michigan Legal Aid, which addresses garnishments:

http://www.michiganlegalaid.org/library_client/resource.2005-09-28.40887....

It says, "If you are employed, a judgment creditor may attempt to garnish your wages. A form is sent to your employer to compute the amount available for garnishment. By federal law, at least $154.50 per week is exempt from garnishment. If you make more than that, up to 25% of your wages can be paid to the judgment creditor."

Also, see this link:

http://www.legalaidwestmich.org/resource.2005-07-06.4449979183/html_view

"In addition, under federal law, a certain amount of a paycheck is protected. There is a formula to determine this amount. In simplest terms, the most that can be garnished is the lesser of 25% of the amount left after the deduction of state, federal and local taxes and retirement. OR

Amount left after deduction of minimum wage per hour for 30 hours per week."

And...

"Federal law provides that a garnishment against wages must leave the person with the greater of 75% of disposable income (Income after taxes) or minimum wage for a standard work week."

♥ ANNE 8102 ♥

My BF was not in any arrears, yet they scarfed up his ENTIRE bonus check which was his last check from his old job. They did this b/c the bonus check came out in a weekly cycle and was not accompanied by a regular paycheck.

CSEU always says he's in arrears but he's never missed a payment, even when he was on unemployment a few years back. I believe, in NYS it can be handled privately, and we did pay faithfully even w/o a court order, but BM trotted it over to CSEU and got on the dole.

"Take me to your Child VISITATION Enforcement Unit"

No money to be made off of THAT one!

In my state, Pennsylvania, you can only take so much of a person's income. Even when calculating CS, a person has to have "x" amount left to live on. My ex was in arrears, and he simply paid an additional $20 every two weeks. Of course, no interest was charged on it. I guess in more severe cases they can go after an income tax return, as well.

tahts where im from and they do some things so much better than they do here in MO for example *sigh* missing home...

"Given the right reasons and the right two people, marriage is a wonderful way of experiencing your life."
~the late great George Carlin

I live in Michigan. Anyone aware of the laws about all this here?

We had filed jointly as far as income tax, instead of getting $1200 for the stimulus, we only got 600 (my cut) his automatically went to FOC. As far as the other tax checks, they also took out his cut.