Legal Question in Family Law in Michigan
Deadbeat Dads
It is through my mother that I have an understanding my father did not pay child support for my siblings and I. All of my life, I have been robbed of things growing up, that child support could have benefited my sisters, brother and myself. Instead, my mother struggled to survive raising us as a single parent. Today, I have learned that my father got quite a sum of money as an inheiritance from his parents death. I feel that even though my siblings and I are adults, we deserve to be reembursed for all of the years we went without. I have two half brothers, and it is my knowledge that he has set them up for college or whatever else, and I feel cheated for the rest of us who did not have that chance. My question to you, how can I find out about this inheiritance, and as an adult, could I do anything today about having him pay back child support due to us?
1 Answer from Attorneys
Re: Deadbeat Dads
To Whom It May Concern:
This is in response to your email of July 30, 2001.
In Michigan, child support immediately becomes a judgment in favor of the recipient and against the payor when it is not paid. Judgments in Michigan are valid for 10 years. Under some circumstances judgments can be extended. Your mother would be the person entitled to collect on any judgment that is still valid.
As far as the inheritance is concerned, I recommend that you review probate documents filed in the county where the decedent died.
Sincerely,
Charles L. Nichols
(313) 561-5700
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