What If My Ex Won’t Pay Child Support?

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If your ex will not pay the child support that has already been ordered, you can do a number of things. One, you can file a petition with the court to hold that person in contempt. And you can ask if they have the ability to pay on an ongoing basis and they have failed to do it, you can ask that the court incarcerate your ex until they pay a purge payment. What that means is if they owe you 5,000, you can ask the court to incarcerate your ex until they pay up to 5,000. Sometimes courts will set set it at a lower amount. And what

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we call that is the keys to the jail cell, meaning the second they pay the amount that’s owed, then they can get out of jail. If they don’t pay it, they sit there until it’s paid. Uh, and that is only if a court finds that your ex had the ability to pay the support. The other way you can force uh your ex to pay child support is to have their wages garnished. You can get a court order that on a monthly basis or a bi-weekly basis, their pay stubs will be automatically deducted by their employer

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and sent directly to you. And then the final way is you can get a judgment for past child support that is owed and you can have the money paid from their bank account or any other garnishy who might be holding their assets.

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