Q: If i went to court and got custody back of my daughter. Then why after almost 3 years are my lic. Suspended?
I have gotten 4 different stories from 4 different people at the child support office. I just don't understand I get that they say that it's a rear's but how did they let me go for almost 3 years if I was supposed? To be paying this.
Dinner case get reopened or something. I got my daughter back in 2020. It's now. 2023 and I'm having to pay this now.
A: Arrears do not disappear, even if you gain physical custody. Because arrears are past due payments, not current child support. Now if you obtained physical custody through a court order, then your child support order for future payments should have been dismissed. If you simply took physical custody and did not go through the courts, then the child support continued, because you failed to have the child support order dismissed. As far as how did they let you go 3 years, child support doesn't chase people down to collect money. If you had an order, it was your responsibility to make those payments. If again, custody changed and you now have the child full-time, or when you took custody of the child full time, you should have filed for a modification. But if you simply take the child from the custodial parent and don't go through the court to make that change official, your child support order doesn't get dismissed.
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