Child Support Attorney in Minneapolis, Minnesota
How can you help me if my ex is not paying child support?
How can you help me if my ex is not paying child support?
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well uh you know i’ve had cases like
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that
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and
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generally there’s there’s several things
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that can happen if you if a man or woman
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is not paying their child support on
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time or paying it in in the entire
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amount uh first of all the state the
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state can be involved and the state can
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help people collect child support
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so what can happen is if is that they’ll
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know they keep track of this and if
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somebody is chronically not paying their
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child support
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they can suffer consequences such as
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their passport can be revoked
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their driver’s license can be revoked
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if they have a professional license like
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if a lawyer doesn’t pay his child
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support he can have his law license
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revoked
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they can intercept
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tax refund money and the state often
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will do that say you’re gonna get a five
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thousand dollar
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tax refund and and they haven’t paid
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their child support and they owe what’s
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known as arrears of five or ten thousand
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dollars the state will intercept that
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refund and five thousand dollars will be
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given to the person who’s supposed to be
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receiving child support
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now if people still fail to pay their
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child support
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you can
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also file a motion
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with the court for contempt of court
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because contempt of court means somebody
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isn’t obeying a court order
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what can happen is the court will find
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that person in contempt
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they owe ten thousand dollars of of
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child support arrears
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and
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what’s going to happen is the court is
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going to impose a suspended jail
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sentence on that person
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and give them a certain amount of time
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to pay that amount of money and if they
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don’t pay it they have to report to to
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the jail
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now the defense to that is
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you cannot afford to pay the support and
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you have to come into court
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and prove through evidence
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your the person who’s not paying has
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that burden of proof to show that i’m
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impoverished
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i don’t make enough money i can’t work
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any more than i’m working and i can’t
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afford to pay support
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and then child support could be modified
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the amount would be changed possibly so
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but if they’re just somebody that’s
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deliberately not paying and i’ve had
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that happen
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they can be let off in in handcuffs
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until they pay
Minneapolis, MN family law attorney Michael Fink explains how he can help if your ex is not paying child support.
