No, credit cards are not considered a form of income and cannot be used to pay for child support.
from child support enforcement
They receive federal matching funds for child support enforcement, as to refusing to do so could affect getting that money.
The only way to stop child support enforcement from attaching your bank accounts is to pay what you owe in arrears and continue to pay what you owe on time.
A father who refuses to pay child support may be reported to the social services child support enforcement office. The office will launch an investigation, and can garnish the money from his paycheck.
That is odd. Here in this state Maine it is noted as a child support payment and does go as such on records, when given to the custodial parent for past due child support owed as such a payment to child support and should be a credit towards the child support owed. You need to check with your State Child Support as you did not mention the State you are in. But where it is federal it should be with all states, not just one. But you need to check with the Child Support Enforcement of your state as to why it was not put down as a payment for past due child support and why you were not credited for the amount as of yet. You do have the right to call and ask as the non custodial parent and it is your money that was taken away. So you do have the right to know why.
The claim is that it is to support a child as if the child's parents continued to live together. Although of course, many times the child support might be much more than the child would have received had the parents remained together. Sometimes it is much less too. The only thing that is normally not covered is medical expenses.
Yes. The government has become acutely aware of the problem of children living in poverty because a parent is not paying child support. Therefore, very strong laws have been passed to help collect arrears and states have been given wide ranging powers to collect arrears. Each state is required to maintain agencies for child support enforcement. You can review the laws and programs in your state at the related link. If you have child support arrears your tax return can be intercepted if the custodial parent requests assistance from your state child support enforcement agency, or by the state if the state is paying family benefits. You should realize that child support is intended to help with the day to day costs of supporting a child. It's not simply a bill, like a credit card bill, that you can make small payments on until it's paid years later. If you have money coming in it can be redirected toward your arrears to provide immediate support for the child.
NO earned income credit is not safe from garnishment. It is the same as taking money out of your paycheck, if you owe, they remove funds from your account.
The child does not receive the money, the adult responsible for the child gets the money.
That comes under child support enforcement, they will file a motion to enforce.
Yes, it is none of their concern what the money was for. If you deposited the money in your account than they can take it to pay any bills you owe them.
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