Is It Possible To Get Support Years Later

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jonifc

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Is it possible after many years to go after un-paid child support in Texas when the child is now 27?
I heard a long time ago that the only way that could be done would be to file something with the court every couple of years which I unfortunately didn't do. But I recently heard that I can get the back support, is this true? Will the courts be any help if I can?

Thanks,
JC
 
Was there ever a support order? If not, then no you cannot sue for it years later when there is no order for it.

If there was an order, the statute of limitations likely has run out. The time to sue is before the child is 18, not 27. Waiting has probably ruined your chances of anything.
 
Yes there was a support order from 1983.
I also thought there was a statute of limitations which is why nothing was done but I recently heard that now there was no statute of limitations on child support in Texas. Is this information wrong?
 
yes you can go to child support enforcement and they will go after him and make him pay for your child for all the years you were the supporter, I work in the courts I see it everyday
 
Suoport at 27

Un :eek: freaking :eek: believeable.

other than pure monetary gain or perhaps revenge, what other motive could an good honest person have for doing this???

If this is allowed, this is absurd! and its further evidence that this system is more wacko than Jacko!
 
What is un-believeable is that one parent struggles for years to support their children while the other lives it up as if they have no care in the world.
I bet he has a nice little retirement nest egg while I have nothing because every cent I made went towards raising "his" children. He was always off to new and exciting places never thinking twice about "his" kids.
I did my job and his and now I have nothing saved for any kind of decent life when I become to old to work.
No revenge, and you can call it monetary gain if you wish but what it really is is his obligation that he failed for years to acknowlegde.
We divorced, he didn't divorce his kids.
 
well we do have a very limitted view here.. so to add context, 2 questions:

- Did you two have some kind of agreement? you had to have some kind of agreement for you to stay away for 27 years. no?

- Why now? why not a year ago, or 5 years ago? why now? what is the immediate circumstance that is bringing this forward at this time?
 
<Did you two have some kind of agreement? you had to have some kind of agreement for you to stay away for 27 years. no?>

There was just the original child support agreement. I didn't stay away he did. Back in 1990 I went to court to ask that his very small child support payment of $120.00 (and that he wasn't paying) per month be increased, he left the state.

<Why now? why not a year ago, or 5 years ago? why now? what is the immediate circumstance that is bringing this forward at this time?>

Up until about a year ago I didn't know where he was and I thought that Texas had a time limit that had already passed to collect back child support it was just recently I learned that the laws had been changed.
 
I am begining to see your point of view. Very interesting.

Were there child support laws 27 years ago? Oh my! That just reminds me how old I am. ! :eek:

So how do you think he will take it when he finds out you're going after him for past child support? Wouldn't he just get up and move away to get away from you? like he did before?

You mentioned that you raised the child all by yourself. That is certainly admirable. I would be proud. How do you feel about having raised the child all by yourself? How is the 27 year old doing now anyway?
 
Duranie said:
Was there ever a support order? If not, then no you cannot sue for it years later when there is no order for it.

If there was an order, the statute of limitations likely has run out. The time to sue is before the child is 18, not 27. Waiting has probably ruined your chances of anything.

Actually this isn't the case. My father left my mother while she was pregnant with me. They were never married, he never paid support nor was he ever ordered to. Some years later after I was 18 my father was ordered to pay a set amount in childsupport up to the age I was 18, then up to the age of 21 since I continued on to college without stopping after high school. My father was in Kansas, my mother and I in california.
 
I know this is a partial repeat but the first part was to a comment someone else made, so here is that comment and the rest of mine:

My father left my mother while she was pregnant with me. They were never married, he never paid support nor was he ever ordered to. Some years later after I was 18 my father was ordered to pay a set amount in childsupport up to the age I was 18, then up to the age of 21 since I continued on to college without stopping after high school. My father was in Kansas, my mother and I in California. My father had to pay my mother over $10,000 in back child support, which she gave to me which I used for college.
But you are totally entitled to the money. You had to raise your child without any support. Why should HE get off without having to pay any money at all? So yes, I believe that even if your motive was financial, so was his by not paying. Do whatever you have to, even civil court to recoup some of HIS share. You are entitled!!!!
(This coming from a man!)
 
sanguru said:
I am begining to see your point of view. Very interesting.

Were there child support laws 27 years ago? Oh my! That just reminds me how old I am. ! :eek:

So how do you think he will take it when he finds out you're going after him for past child support? Wouldn't he just get up and move away to get away from you? like he did before?

You mentioned that you raised the child all by yourself. That is certainly admirable. I would be proud. How do you feel about having raised the child all by yourself? How is the 27 year old doing now anyway?

Is it possible that he will change jobs? Yes, but we must first find out where he's working now. My only options now since he is over 18 is civil without many of the options available to those with younger children.
My Son is great, he tries to act as if his Father's absence has not effected him and to be honest I really don't know if it has. I know it would have effected me. I have brought it up only twice, wanting to know how he feels but is was obvious he didn't want to talk about it so I left it alone.
I do hate his Dad for not being there, his graduation, his prom, his first job, his first day of college. I just can't wrap my head around it, how can someone be okay with not being there to see their child on these once in a lifetime events?
Sure I could have use the back up of another parent during those terrible teens but my Son is lucky, he has a Mom who is more stubborn then himself :)
Yes their was child support laws years ago but unless I was getting Welfare payments(which I wasn't) the State of Texas did nothing. I understand the laws have changed considerably.
 
sodapopkidd28 said:
Actually this isn't the case. My father left my mother while she was pregnant with me. They were never married, he never paid support nor was he ever ordered to. Some years later after I was 18 my father was ordered to pay a set amount in childsupport up to the age I was 18, then up to the age of 21 since I continued on to college without stopping after high school. My father was in Kansas, my mother and I in california.


Actually the person above was half right. In the State of Texas the statute of limitations I believe was 4 years but I recently learned that in the late 90's that was changed. But Lawyers and clients alike are now waiting on a Texas State Supreme Court ruling about the interest accured for back child support. The case being considered would make it so that you could only get interest on past child support up until the law changed in the late 90's, (for support owed before that time.)
 
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