To: The Missouri State House
Child Support Laws
Stop sending parents that got behind in child support due to a loss of job to jail and give paying parent credit for money they can prove that came out of their check, regardless as to what child support did with it.
Why is this important?
My Petition is for judges not to be able to send a person to jail for falling behind on child support due to losing a job or layoff. In addition, parent paying support should get credit if they can prove it came out of their check regardless of what child support is doing with the money. In my particular case, Chrysler closed the plant and I was left jobless. I then incurred 12, 800 dollars of back pay child support being that I was ordered to pay $1767.00 per month and unemployment was not enough for me to make a full payment. I am now facing incarceration because I do not have the ability to pay a substantial lump sum of money toward my arrears, but I am paying current with some going toward arrears monthly.