Is Your Ex Avoiding Child Support?

Investigation News - Is Your Ex Avoiding Child Support? - PInow.com Investigator Directory: "Many parents and children are in financial difficulty today because parents are not paying the child support ordered by courts. Hiring a private investigator can help parents augment resource-strapped legal systems so that payment can finally be made.

Deadbeat parents cost children a lot of money. In the state of Hawaii alone, more than half a billion dollars represents the amount of delinquent child support payments. According to 2005 statistics, the state is only able to successfully collect 40% of delinquent accounts. The District of Columbia is not much better, collecting only in 37% of cases. Most states have passed laws to get deadbeat parents to pay up — in some states; parents who fall behind on their child support can find their pay checks cut, their credit dinged, or their licenses suspended.

Despite the legal measures, though, parents still report that deadbeat parents do not pay child support. Child advocacy groups point out that some parents move or change identities in order to avoid child support, while others only make a payment or two when threatened with cut pay or loss of a license and then return to non-payment. In many cases, law enforcement and child services simply do not have the resources to find and compel non-paying parents to make payments."

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Is Your Ex Avoiding Child Support?

Man sues Continental in child custody case

Man sues Continental in child custody case: "A former Kansas City man has sued Continental Airlines for allowing his ex-wife to fly to Mexico with their 3-year-old daughter without his permission.

The mother, Aline Rivas-Vera, was charged in June by a Kansas City federal grand jury with international parental kidnapping. She and her daughter haven't been found.

Didier Combe, who filed the lawsuit Monday in federal court in Massachusetts, where he now lives, contends that Continental did not follow its own policies or Mexican law when it allowed Rivas-Vera to take the girl, Chloe, from Kansas City to Mexico City.

The lawsuit says Continental's policies and Mexican law both require a single parent traveling with a minor child to present a notarized letter from the absent parent authorizing travel into Mexico.

'By not following its own stated company guidelines or the relevant international laws in place to protect children, Continental Airlines was complicit and participated in the abduction of my daughter,' Combe said. 'This airline failed to protect my little girl.'"

Courts to blame in child custody case

The City Paper - Smart, Fast, Free: "In a family court battle that has stirred deep emotions nationwide, an unlikely villain should be held accountable for the abject neglect of a very young child — the Tennessee judicial system.

It is very difficult given the mountains of court records and questionable actions by both sets of parents of 8-year-old Anna Mae He to agree with either side in this legal embarrassment. Yet, there is no question that Tennessee’s judicial system horribly failed a young child who needed decisive action and real wisdom from its jurists.

Anna Mae He is the center of a custody battle between a Memphis family, Jerry and Louise Baker, and He’s biological parents, Jack and Casey He. The He family are Chinese nationals who, during a time of employment and financial trouble, gave temporary custody of their daughter to the Bakers."

Woman Wants Child In Lesbian Custody Case

Woman Wants Child In Lesbian Custody Case - News: "A woman embroiled in a child custody battle with her former civil union partner said Sunday she would ask a judge to order that she be given 'full physical custody' of a child born to the other woman.

Janet Jenkins of Fair Haven also said she had obeyed a child support order issued last month and had just arranged her second $240 monthly payment to Lisa Miller of Winchester, Va., for the care of Isabella, the now 4-year-old girl born during the women's civil union.

Jenkins said she sent the first check by certified mail, only to have it returned, and tried to make the second payment through an Internet bill-paying service."