Re: Child support and welfare in PA

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On 5/17/09, Mrs.P wrote:
> Defendant has been ordered to pay child support, found in
> contempt quite a few times for failure to pay and even
> spent 6 months in jail for it. Now they are filing for a
> modification because they are on welfare. My question is,
> do they still require someone on welfare (cash assistance)
> to pay their child support obligation? Thanks!

all states are different but, you don't need to worry as to
whether the support order will be terminated. It is only
suspended. Obviously since the person owing has no money to
pay it with, which is a nice thing for the court to do,
because in some states they accuse you of being able to make
more money than you are and thus you have a huge bill assessed
against you without any means of paying it! Which all goes to
the point of, the judges depending on their bias, may want to
CREATE an arrears that has to be paid back. In your case he
got a nice judge or maybe the state says they have to do it
the more humane and reasonable way. And there will still be
arrears, what he already owes; arrears NEVER die even if the
payments are terminated! So look to the future when he is able
to pay, then get the support order modified based on his
making more money. in the meantime, get welfare if necessary,
and the state will collect the support for you, they want
their welfare money paid back to them through his support.