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Which one, voluntary or mandatory ?Yes, I'm sure they are.
Just to be clear, not the Enforcement Order that a comes from falling behind on payments (past due), but the initial Obligation after paternity is established...
Is it voluntary or mandatory ?
Child Support is a civil matter... Operates by operation of law, civil procedure. Your example was a criminal scenario...that is like comparing apples to oranges.Whether a person voluntarily agreed to the order or a judge decreed same, the obligation exists, notwithstanding the way it was created.
Think of it this way.
Joe and Ted commit a crime.
Joe pleads guilty to the crime in open court after being admonished by the judge.
Joe, nevertheless pleads guilty and subsequently sentenced to five years in a state penitentiary.
Ted pleads not guilty, has a trial, whereupon a jury convicts Ted of the crime.
Ted is sentenced to a state penitentiary for four years.
One voluntarily plead guilty, one was adjudicated guilty after a trial.
Same result, some form of incarceration, different paths to the same result.
Once the Order is granted, the CSA now has the authority to income withholdings, bank levies, federal and state tax refund interceptions, Contempt citations, and incarceration.
These remedies have no authority without the lien attached to the Enforcement Order and the Enforcement Order is granted by a Judge...
That is law, I can provide legal statute if you want validation.You are free to do anything you wish to do.
You are free to believe anything you wish to believe.
You are free to disbelieve anything you wish not to believe.
If you think you need not pay child support for a child that genetic testing and science has pegged you as the baby's male progenitor, I suggest you prepare for a reckoning.
Good luck.
This OP posted down the street.
Being Properly Served For Child Support Enforcement ?
OP is trying very hard to not pay support for his child.
That's one way to put it...I saw his convo with Eek, down the street and, I have a different descriptive word I would use.Yep, what a schmuck.
Please don't jump to conclusions, my debt and payments aren't owed to my child, it's to the State...
That is law, I can provide legal statute if you want validation.
Please don't jump to conclusions, my debt and payments aren't owed to my child, it's to the State...
I have a serious inquiry here and really need help...please be professional and hear me out...
The State of Oklahoma (uses her taxpayers' money to support kids in financial need) if the male and female progenitors can't or won't honor the obligation to support their progeny.
The state simply collects the money and transfers MOST of it to the custodial progenitor after extracting a fee to ensure that the noncustodial progenitor pay her/his fair share in raising the progeny.
The state spends far more on the offspring than what is collected from the noncustodial progenitor.
The custodial progenitor gets much less than what it costs to support the child and care for her/him 24/7/365!!!
I rarely get involved in family law cases because I don't enjoy the emotional outbursts often displayed.
I've heard far too many when I sat as an active Texas District Court Judge.
I'd rather try a murder, rape, or other felony case over a family law related case.
I can only repeat what a child psychiatrist once said under oath: "If two parties engage in sexual relations and wish to avoid later back and forth recriminations about paternity, both parties might ensure they apply proper prophylactic devices, medications, etc... BEFORE engaging in said activity."
You can't unring a bell, OP.
Going forward you can be more proactive and protective of what you do when it comes to sexual intercourse.
As far as you beating the burden of child support or taxes, many have tried, none succeed and remain alive or retain their freedom.
I wish you well, mate, as you struggle to understand that even the mightiest among us can't move mountains or cheat the government from extracting it's pound of flesh.
Ever ask yourself why any government deserves a percentage of your wages, or a percentage of the purchase price of most any commodity you buy with some of your wages?
Kings, Emperors, Sultans, Dictators, and their ilk avoided what elected officials have been doing in this country ever since Lincoln initiated his Revenue Act scheme in 1861, decades before the 16th Amendment gifted us all with the "income tax".