Bank Account Garnished Due to Not Paying Child Support

My question involves child support in the State of: Florida


I was ordered to pay child support in March of this year... which was ordered to pay 388 and 22 bucks extra for back child support even though i paid the whole time and supported our kid. Anyways its been 6 months and i made a few payments the kids mother claim she never got the payments... so i started to pay her cash directly to her.. 100 a week.. which she has no problem telling the court this. but now they garnished my whole bank account which had all my money in it.. now i can't even pay for gas to get to work or pay her money for our child. whats the purpose of this now even if i wanted to i couldnt pay the child support... i just recently got paid and won't get paid again for another 2 weeks.. and they withdrew my account for 6 grand when i didn't owe even half that. so my hands are pretty much tied.. can't work and can't buy my kid anything... i called child support and she told me it was my fault for ignoring the notices that were sent to me (NO NOTICES AT ALL WERE MAILED TO ME) and i told her why didn't they garnish my wages because i gave my employer info to the case worker she told me they never had that info... and that i'm in deep trouble and i would have to pay the whole back child support to unfreeze my account... so im not sure if they took out everything i had in my account and gave it to her or just froze my account where i couldn't do ANYTHING. so if i can't work to pay child support what am i suppose to do?

Me and the mother are getting back together what can she do on her part for them to drop child support? do we HAVE to get married?

*lol* of course you don't have to get married.
I'm not sure getting married will solve the issues you have right now. Child support is supposed to be paid through the courts. I don't know if they'll accept/believe mom's story that you've been paying her cash, but you can always ask her to try.

Quick question.

Given that Mom has lied and told CSE that she never got the payments that you sent to her directly, why would you be getting back together with her?

Provided she's not getting certain types of State aid, she can close the CS case and forgive the arrears herself at any time. If she tells you anything else, she's lying again. Specially if she's trying to trap you into marriage!

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Quick question.

Given that Mom has lied and told CSE that she never got the payments that you sent to her directly, why would you be getting back together with her?

Provided she's not getting certain types of State aid, she can close the CS case and forgive the arrears herself at any time. If she tells you anything else, she's lying again. Specially if she's trying to trap you into marriage!

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I found out she lied saw the debit card statements where she got the money tonight. and i've known her all my life we all have our problems but its mostly for our daughter. and she is getting food stamps, WIC and medicaid. but i figured even if she stopped all that and closed the CS case that the state would STILL try to go after me..


i had no idea they could garnish ur bank account being late on payments i had no idea or i would have paid EVERY month instead of paying her.. now it has turned my life into a financial spiral know if they can garnish prepaid debit card accounts to? wondering what is safe til i can catch up on payments now.

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OH and she never lied to them about getting the money directly she called and told them but then they said its my fault for not paying the court order child support instead. but she has lied to me about actually getting the court ordered money when i thought she wasnt getting it. i should of been calling and checking up on payments lot more then i was.. but i'm def on top of it now even though its alittle late.

This isn't legal advice, but staying together for the sake of your daughter is doing her a great disservice :(

Yes, they can garnish your bank account. I'm also not buying that she called and they wouldn't credit you with the direct payments; if both parents acknowledge the payments there just isn't a reason for the State to refuse the credit. In fact, most States have specific rules in place allowing for just that.

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This isn't legal advice, but staying together for the sake of your daughter is doing her a great disservice :(

Yes, they can garnish your bank account. I'm also not buying that she called and they wouldn't credit you with the direct payments; if both parents acknowledge the payments there just isn't a reason for the State to refuse the credit. In fact, most States have specific rules in place allowing for just that.

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Oh, at the court hearing they did deduct from my back child support which was because they went back to where my daughter was born which was 6 months back at the time. they took it from 2k down to 1200. but thats it from then on i was just suppose to pay the child support order.


Which is funny though i was paying the child support thru my bank account with my debit card... which i can't do now.

Call CSE and request a FULL accounting. Get it on paper how much they say you owe Mom, how much they say you owe the State. Then work backwards yourself and see if the numbers tally up.