The court ordered my ex-spouse to pay child support, but she won pay. How do I apply enforcement of child support?
The Child Support Enforcement Act of 1984 provides district attorneys to help you collect child support from an ex-spouse or parent who refuses to pay in accordance with a court order. Typically, the district attorney serves your ex-spouse or child’s parent with papers. On these papers are instructions to meet with the district attorney in order to set up a payment arrangement. The papers say that if the person fails to follow those instructions, jail time could be imposed. This can sometimes be counter-productive, since imposing jail time means the person is not working and earning money. So, usually imposing jail time is saved as a last resort.
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