Illinois finding new ways to hunt down unpaid child support
Hunting and fishing may be out of the question this year if you owe your spouse child support. According to The Telegraph in Alton, IL, the Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services and the Illinois Department of Natural Resources are denying hunting and fishing licenses to parents who are behind on their child support payments.
The program started last September, and the two departments were able to collect $263,506 in child support. Governor Blagojevich issued a statement about the program, saying that he felt parents that didn’t stay up-to-date on financially supporting their children shouldn’t be able to spend money on leisure activities.
October 1st, 2008 at 8:22 pm
You know, its about time. More states should do this! The amount of stress that is caused by men (and women) who don’t pay court ordered child support is unbelievable. All states should raise the punishment on those who don’t pay, so that their children can be taken care of correctly, especially with the way costs are today.
Great post!
Pamela
October 3rd, 2008 at 7:52 pm
I agree, wonderful post. I wish they’d do this in all states, sure would reduce the amount of dead beat parents. Some states do similar things, but in my opinion its not nearly harsh enough… the harder, the better. The less court money and time wasted if you ask me.
Strange coincedence, I used the document service in the poster’s name above, highly recommended (if I can do that?) It made the situation much easier and a whole lot less stressful working with them… A bit surprised to see the link here though!
October 12th, 2008 at 1:36 am
This in general is a good idea, however it’s safe to say that 90% of the deadbeat dads either don’t fish or hunt, or wouldn’t buy the license in the first place. There should be stiffer penalties for fathers (and mothers) who avoid paying child support. There should be income withholding automatically done whenever payments are made to state taxes… this would be a “simple” way to track income.
October 15th, 2008 at 6:13 pm
Great post, wish it was done for both sexes. I’ve been trying to get child support out of my ex wife for years and cannot get any help from the courts. I think people are to quick to assume that the dead beat parents not paying child support are always men… not true, women do it also. Sure hope they start tracking them down!
-J
October 29th, 2008 at 11:21 pm
Illinois child support laws are archaic and need to be redone so that they compute child support on a more realistic level,just to figure a flat 20% per child is insane. I do not support people not paying their child support but think when the courts order you to pay a flat 20% without any consideration of other obligations or present family is ludicrous,if you set a amount that they can’t pay what other choice do you have.
January 4th, 2009 at 6:45 pm
The illinois flat rate is sad to say the least. I.m a noncustodial dad and have my
so n 50% of the time or more. I buy everything he needs when he needs it, yet my X is living high on the hog on basically free money! We both make the same amount of money, have our son equally, yet I have to pay. Doesn’t make sense and it is flat out wrong.
If I get a financial windfall, the x gets a piece, if the x gets a financial windfall, I get nothing and still have to pay, wow, who invented that.