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Improvising Helps in Collecting or Enforcing Child Support Obligations in Florida, as in Ohio

By Janet Langjahr

Ohio Father is a sheriff.

Father admits to spending many of his working hours on pornographic websites.

Father’s employment is terminated.

Father sues the County that employs him for discrimination in terminating him!

Father’s employing County offers Father a $1,000 bone by way of settlement.

Father accepts.

Father is behind in his child support payments to Mother by several thousand dollars.

Now the County’s prosecutor and child support enforcement office are looking to attach the Father’s settlement money to pay Mother toward Father’s child support arrearages.

When the opportunity presents itself, garnishing or attaching monies that a county or the state owes to the obligated parent is an excellent means of Florida child support enforcement or collection too.

Read more in this Dayton [OH] Daily News article: Deputy who admitted surfing porn owes child support

Full post as published by Florida Divorce - Child Custody - Domestic Abuse Law on September 12, 2009 (boomark / email).