Child Support Laws - article by Whimsical Wire Articles

Knowing the child-support law and being able to enforce it are two different things. Although child support laws tend to be very fair to the parents who is raising children, Child support enforcement by contrast is notoriously poor in most states. The child-support enforcers are understaffed and overworked, and without the aid of a good lawyer, you Can have a very difficult time getting the child support payments that you need. Hiring a child-support lawyer might be the last thing that you want to do after going through a lengthy and costly divorce, but it can be important. The longer that you wait to enforce child support payments, the harder it can be to get the money that you need.

In my case, finding out the child support law in my state was just the beginning. Oregon child support laws are pretty reasonable – pretty much typical of a middle of the road state. In my family, I was the child rearer. Although I am the father, I have always been much more driven to take care of children and my wife has always been more apt to take on the financial responsibilities. Although I worked as well, when we got divorced I needed child support payments to take care of the kids.

At first, my ex-wife complied with all of the child support laws, but soon the child support payments became fewer and less frequent. She knew the laws on child support – she was a lawyer for God's sake! Nonetheless, she chose to ignore them for whatever reasons she had. Although she claims to love our kids dearly, she was not giving me the child support that I needed to raise them. I consulted a child support lawyer myself, and soon I was able to make her obey the child support laws. I was actually Able to suspend her visitation rights until she began to make the payments.

It wasn't as simple as all that, however. Getting the state to enforce the child support laws took weeks and weeks. If I hadn't known of a good child support law center, it could have all turned out very differently. Although theoretically I could have gone through the child support agency in Oregon, I knew that this was a dead end. The only way to get deadbeat dads or moms to obey the child support laws is to sue them.

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