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    Default How to Enforce Interstate Child Support

    My question involves child support in the State of: Virginia and Pennsylvania

    My granddaughter's father has never paid a penny in child support and, in fact, left the state of Virginia over a year ago. Virginia's Child Support Enforcement could not find him, his parents insisted they did not know where he was, and my daughter didn't know, either. Virginia CSE threatened to cancel my daughter's TANF is she didn't tell them where he was. Hello! He left the state and she had no idea where he was, other than that he was in Pennsylvania! He finally slipped up and called her from a landline phone, my daughter got the address from the phone number, and Virginia Child Support contacted Pennsylvania for assistance. He had to go to court in Pennsylvania last week. The only thing that happened was the court told him he had to notify them as soon as he got a job. Thanks for your help, Pennsylvania!

    I know there isn't much they can do if he doesn't have a job, but on the other hand, how is he supporting himself if he doesn't have a job? You would think there would be some kind of consequences. They can't take his driver's license because he doesn't have one.

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    Default Re: How to Enforce Interstate Child Support

    There's a saying, you can't get blood from a turnip. If he has no money, he has no money. If he has no driver's license, they can't suspend his license. What do you propose that they should do?

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    Default Re: How to Enforce Interstate Child Support

    Wait, you're complaining that he doesn't have a job, but your daughter is receiving TANF, which means she doesn't either... or she has one that makes very little money.

    As Aaron said, you can't get blood from a turnip and they won't find him in contempt unless his failure to pay support is willful. Regardless, since your daughter is receiving taxpayer money, the money they collect will belong to the state, not your daughter anyway, so they can do with the case what they want.

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    Default Re: How to Enforce Interstate Child Support

    My daughter receives Social Security Disability Benefits and has just finished classes hoping to get into the medical billing and coding field. I do totally understand what you are saying about getting blood from a turnip. I just find it hard to believe that he has not had some kind of income for over two years now, especially since he moved out of his parents' home. If he has no income, how is he supporting himself? Instead of him helping to support their child, it's left to my husband and I to do so. Don't get me wrong, we dearly love our daughter and granddaughter. It just drives me nuts that this man alternates between demanding that my daughter send him updates about my granddaughter (even though he fled the state and she had no way to contact him) and then threatening to sue her for harassment when she DOES e-mail him telling him about her.

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