Deadbeats: What Responsible Parents Need to Know About Collecting Child Support - Softcover

Spence, Simone

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1570715068 ISBN 13: 9781570715068

Publisher: Sourcebooks Inc, 2000

Synopsis

A guide for custodial parents on collecting child spport payments provides advice on hiring a lawyer, finding the absent parent, locating assets, and enforcing a child support order.

About this title

About the Author

Simone Spence is a nationally recognized leader in the field of child support enforcement. The impact from her groundbreaking research has given her a national presence. She is sought after as a speaker and lecturer, and is a frequent guest on radio and television programs. Ms. Spence writes, consults, and is the founder of the Spence Foundation, a national agency for the enforcement of child support. She lives in the greater New York area with her husband and children. If you would like to be placed on the waiting list for a personal consultation with Ms. Spence, please contact her at 973-509-6975. Also, be sure to visit spencefoundation.org, where you will find ''EZ kits'' with pre-printed forms ready to be filed with the court. There are forms for child support, divorce, paternity testing (as well as ''at-home'' testing kits), credit repair, and bankruptcy. You will also find a full range of deadbeat greeting cards and the ''Deadbeat Hall of Shame.'' Visit for products or just for fun! If you have comments or want to be on the Spence Foundation mailing list for upcoming events and seminars, send your request to:

Spence Foundation Box 5 Cedar Grove, NJ 07009

Ms. Spence offers seminars, training, and workshops free of charge to government officials, mental health professionals, and social service agencies on a limited basis. Please contact her in writing on official letterhead for more information.

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The history of child support orders and the enforcement of child support has been an outrage since the day ''family law'' first entered the legal system. Historically, the majority of custodial families have not had court-ordered child support, and those receiving child support orders have rarely been awarded enough money to care for their children properly. Theoretically, child support awards should be sufficient to mimic the same economic advantages a child would have if his or her parents were together as a couple. In addition, once the court has ordered child support, most custodial parents still have a hard time collecting any child support monies. Some families are able to get partial payments, while other families receive no payments at all. Fortunately, not all custodial families experience the economic abuse of child support evasion. The sad truth is, however, that only 25 percent of families that have child support awards ever collect. This book is not written to tag men or non-custodial fathers as deadbeats, although some of them are. It is written for any custodial parent, male or female, who needs help getting financial support for his or her children. Eighty-seven percent of custodial parents are women. The remaining 13 percent are men, grandparents, and others. There are deadbeat dads, and there are deadbeat moms. In some instances both dad and mom are deadbeats. It does not matter what gender the deadbeat parent is. The object of this ball game is to get financial support for the children. That stated, for the sake of simplicity, this book will use male gender pronouns when referring to non-custodial parents and female gender pronouns when referring to custodial parents. Similarly, gender pronouns will be consistently applied to other roles, such as lawyers, caseworkers, and judges.

Edition details

• Publisher: Sourcebooks Inc
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 1570715068
• ISBN 13: 9781570715068
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 240