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Lackey Bill Would Put Child Support Evaders on Blast

by ECT

A bill introduced last week by Assemblyman Tom Lackey would call for the State of California to create a website which would list parents who owe more than $5,000 in child support.

According to Assembly Bill 1498, it would showcase delinquent parents who have not been making court-ordered child support payments. The website would publicly display:

  • Obligor’s name
  • photograph
  • amount of child support owed.

An obligor who owes past due child support as of the date the website is created shall be placed on the website if the custodial parent to whom payment of child support is owed is a resident of California and all of the following conditions are met:

  • (1) The obligor owes at least five thousand dollars ($5,000) in delinquent support.
  • (2) The obligor has been in arrears for 12 months of child support.
  • (3) The obligor has not made a support payment in at least six months.
  • (4) The obligor is not involved in bankruptcy proceedings.
  • (5) The obligor is not receiving state assistance.
  • (6) The obligor is not incarcerated in a state prison or county jail.

According to the bill, prior to placing an obligor on the website, the department shall contact the custodial parent of the child or children for whom child support is owed. If the custodial parent objects to the obligor’s name or photograph, or both, being placed on the website, the department shall not publish the obligor’s name or photograph, or both, on the website.

The state would also make a reasonable effort to notify obligators at least 60-days prior to publishing the obligators name on the website.

The bill would allow the department to publish a list of “top child support deadbeats” on one or more social media platforms. The bill would prohibit the use of information published on the website for specified purposes relating to credit, employment, and housing, among other things.

The bill would impose a fine of at least $10,000 on a person who uses information from the website to commit a misdemeanor, and a fine of up to $50,000 on a person who uses information from the website to commit a felony.

To view the full bill, click here.

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4 comments

Renee Feb 27, 2019 - 5:15 pm

How about a bill for mandatory DNA testing at the time of birth so that women cannot play “name a daddy” in order to receive public assistance and innocent men are found guilty by default and held financially responsible for children that are not biologically theirs.

This affects the children and the men are victims of these women. Nothing is done to these women that sign statements saying daddy #1 is the only possible person then surprise 16yrs, 10yrs, 20yrs later after the man has had wages garnished, licenses suspended, and owe arrears due to financial hardships throughout the years they find out they are NOT THE FATHER and you still owe the arrears or child support or welfare payback.

Nobody really cares about the children as much as they care about getting ANYONE to pay back the aid they’ve paid to that mother.

mandatory DNA test eliminates any error or the wrong man being financially ruined.

Paul Burt Feb 28, 2019 - 9:20 am

(1) In U.S. divorce and custody matters, Mothers are awarded “Primary Physical Custody” of minor children – when such children are involved – in over 90 percent of cases. Primary Physical Custody is the cornerstone in the setting of the amount of child support to be paid by an obligor. “Gender Bias” doesn’t convey the half of it!
(2) Child Support received by an obligee, is not required to be reported as “income” on their income tax return(s). Conversely, tax laws do not allow an obligor to “claim” child support as an “expense” nor in any other way, shape, or form deduct or factor child support payments into their income tax return(s).
(3) In fiscal year 2016/17, California’s DCSS received approximately $658 million in federal funds. Of that, about $51 million was used solely for a miserably flawed IT system. Note: These federal funds NEVER make their way into the lives of children of divorce or impoverished kids. Instead, these funds augment the salaries, benefits packages, paid-time-off, and pensions of those employed by – or retired from – the child support enforcement and family law regime(s).
(4) In the United States, divorce and custody account for OVER HALF of all civil litigation, constituting the cash cow of the judiciary and bringing employment and earnings to a host of public and private officials including judges, lawyers, psychotherapists, mediators, counselors, social workers, child support enforcement agents, law enforcement officers, and thousands of others.
(5) In the US, “Paternity Fraud” – wherein a man or boy is misidentified as “father” on a birth certificate – whether accidentally, intentionally, or otherwise – is the only article of court or law wherein scientific proof of innocence does not exonerate. A man or boy is outside the shrouded statute of limitations to file for disestablishing paternity, he is on the hook paying child support for a kid DNA evidence has proven he did not father.
(6) The only definitive, federally funded study ever conducted on the subject of child support, showed that – when employed – American men pay between 83 and 91 percent of all court ordered child support, and that they do so without intervention of any kind.
But, when these figures became apparent the commissioner of the federal office of child support enforcement at the time – who’d commissioned the study – had it discontinued, going so far as to demand formal Freedom of Information Act submissions merely to review the study’s data!

Paul Burt Feb 28, 2019 - 9:56 am

In fiscal year 2016-17 alone, California’s DCSS received approximately $658 million dollars in federal funds for its child support enforcement and case management efforts. Of those funds, about $51 million was used strictly for DCSS’s highly flawed IT child support automation. Note: Not one dime of those federal funds ever makes its way into the lives of children of divorce or impoverished kids, instead augmenting the salaries, benefits packages, paid-time-off, and pensions of those employed by or retired from the child enforcement and family law industry.
In U.S. divorce and custody matters involving minor children mothers are awarded “Primary Physical Custody” – the cornerstone in the setting of child support amounts – in over 91 percent of cases. In any other tribunal, venue, or institution this would be considered “Gender Bias” at minimum and – by 21st Century standards – should be considered criminal; but this does not convey the half of it.
The only definitive, federally funded study ever conducted on the subject of child support, showed that – when employed – American men pay between 83 and 91 percent of all court ordered child support, and that they do so without intervention of any kind.
But, when these figures became apparent the commissioner of the federal office of child support enforcement at the time – who’d commissioned the study – had it discontinued, going so far as to demand formal Freedom of Information Act submissions merely to review the study’s data!

Nick Feb 28, 2019 - 10:11 am

Expose the deadbeat dads.

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