Legal Question in Credit and Debt Law in California

The State can revoke your driver's license for failure to pay child support. The only thing you can do to get your license back is repay the debt, or make arrangements with the enforcement agency to setup a repayment plan and agree to release the driver's license suspension. You will find that there are a lot more adverse actions that the enforcement agency collecting child support can take, including tax refund interception, suspension/denial of professional licenses, denial of essentially any public benefits, and the list goes on.

What you should have done is paid it when you had the income to do so, and when you became disabled, you should have immediately sought to have your child support amount reduced, or eliminated in the family law Court. Waiting until it's too the point of enforcement, interception of SSDI benefits and suspension of your license is almost certainly too late.

One option might be to hire a family law attorney, and see if you can go into the family law court and have the judge restore your license, and perhaps reduce the amount you owe based upon your disability and when it first reduced your income. This is going to be costly, as almost no family law attorneys work for free. You may wish to repost this question in the family law section. The point of this post and my response - don't wait to deal with these things until they mushroom out of control. You should have dealt with this long ago.

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