Another new balance - July 08

And the balance continues to grow….$9,360.90.
I guess, I’ll just look for the big 10k next month.

California Assembly Bill 2440

This became effective earlier this year (2007)
Child Support (AB 2440)
This bill improves child support collections and helps curtail the underground economy by making liable any person or business entity that knowingly assists a child support obligor in evading his or her responsibility for three times the value of the assistance provided, up to the total [...]

There are always questions

Earlier this week, my daughter turned four - with all the little girl joy that is possible. I enjoy watching her at play - everything is so all or nothing with her.
There’s a Volvo commercial with a little girl that doesn’t stop talking as her dad goes to the driver’s side of the car [...]

Single moms - from a married dad’s perspective

From Parenting.com
“An unplanned pregnancy can really test a person. Too many fathers disappear, not wanting to change diapers, alter their lifestyle, or send child support. Too many mothers look at their baby as a burden and pawn the child off to as many relatives as they can find. But fortunately, many more single parents summon [...]

Another first of the month

The new case balance is $4,188.82.
It is not a secret if it is known by three people. - Irish Proverb

Truth

“It’s not hard to find the truth. What is hard is not to run away from it once you have found it.”

wives and what they think…

This is a more difficult post to write.  I’m not finding any studies or really any articles on the subject, so I only see comments on forum boards, friend and acquaintance conversations, and of course first hand comments to me.
Nearly every woman has a friend who receives no child support - or a small amount.  [...]

Coralling Deadbeat Dads

From the Washington Post http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/12/AR2007101201540.html?nav=hcmodule

By Mary T. Wagner
Saturday, October 13, 2007; Page A19
My standard speech is always the same. I can‘t make a guy be a good father. I can’t make him walk the floor with a sick child, drive to soccer games, run to Walgreen’s at midnight to pick up a prescription, help [...]

Shame

from http://www.news12.com/LI/topstories/article?id=201541
(10/16/07) WEST BABYLON - Suffolk County Sheriff Vincent DeMarco is trying a new approach to convincing delinquent dads to pay their child support - public embarrassment.
DeMarco recently launched Deadbeat Parents Most Wanted List, highlighting the 10 greatest offenders of allegedly blowing off child support payments. The men on the top 10 list collectively owe [...]

Children

“Live so that when your children think of fairness and integrity, they think of you.”H. Jackson Brown