Legal Question in Family Law in New York

Child Support Enforcement

First of all - if your attorney is not responsive to you - get a new attorney. There is no excuse for his/her not attending to your needs.As for forcing your ex to pay - there are numerous vehicles available to make this happen. Driver's License privledges have been connected to child support compliance. If he has any job at all - his salary can be garnished. He can be held in contempt if he fails to comply with the judges order. There are numerous remedies - most of which do work - and you should have a lawyer pursue these for you - but fear not - there is a good chance that you will succeed.Best of Luck to you - call if you have any other questions.

fighting for child support

(1) If your husband is employed, it may take some time for the payroll deduction paperwork to be processed. (2) If your husband is self-employed, you may have to seek enforcement in the nature of a finding of contempt {this could result in your husband being sent to jail} - also available if "self-employment" is the scenario is a requirement that an amount of $$ be posted with the court as an 'undertaking'. (3) If your husband simply has NO $$ - then you are confronted with the classic "blood-out-of-turnip" predicament. In this scenario, it is not beyond the realm of possibility {which is not to suggest that it is 'appropriate'} that your atty has despaired of trying to explain to you that turnips are bloodless. (4) Your recourse at this point depends in part on where you are located - but, in larger part, on whether your husband does have the ability to pay. For starters, you could contact your local department of social services and ask for child support legal assistance - before doing that, you probably ought to advise your current attorney of your intention to pursue that course of action and request from him a "Consent to Change Attorney".

One imagines [the child support process being what it is now-a-days] that there is some *factor* pertinent to your situation that you have left out of your question posted here - which, needless to say, makes it difficult to the point of hazardous to try to offer anything other than couched generalities by way of a response.

Regards, etc.

jmhayes

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