The Truth About Child Support Enforcement

As if my divorce wasn't difficult enough, collecting child support became a nightmare. Child support enforcement Florida is so lax, you see, that you practically have to hire your own lawyer to get the child support you are owed. There are plenty of child support laws on the books, but the cops don't seem to do anything about it. The child support enforcement agency is barely open in the county that I live in. It is actually difficult to get someone on the line who will speak to you. I have had to go in in person several times, and even then it was hard to get anyone to help me out.

The problem with this is that the people who suffer most from enforcement child support are the kids. Since the divorce, we have barely had enough to make ends meet. It is alright for me to go without some of the luxury items that I am used to. I don't mind not having toys to play with, not being able to go to the movies, are not getting to go on field trips. None of these are things that I am being deprived of. They are things that my child is being deprived of. Because there is no good child support enforcement in the state, it took me a long time to be able to provide things that most children take for granted in this country.

Fortunately, I did get a good child support attorney. Child support enforcement is actually a pretty straightforward matter once you get legal representation. You see, the facts of the case were clear. He could not deny that he owed child support. I have kept records, and there is no record of him paying. Child support enforcement can sometimes be difficult because deadbeat dads will avoid the authorities for months at a time. Nonetheless, my former husband is a pretty public figure. Once my child support enforcement claim came out, he was too embarrassed to continue to stonewall. He immediately began to make child-support payments.

If you are owed child support, you really should not delay. Once you get a child support enforcement attorney, things can go pretty quickly. A lot of the child support law centers will not charge you any money until you win your case, as these cases tends to be pretty safe bet for them. If you can see the jerk in jail for not paying child support, so much the better.