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    Default Child Support Modification After Going on Disability, Reduced Income

    My question involves child support in the State of: Florida

    I currently have a court order dated 2004, which is $900/Mo. and it took an all out man hunt for ME to locate him not DOR.....LMAO and finally after chasing him all over the country I finally started getting my child support......it took ME 5 years to make it finally happen : ) and the arrears he owed was unbelievable and he was paying $100+ extra to pay the arrears. anyway......

    I recently became disabled and receive disability for myself and my son, and I get the child support. Apparently the social security people took the child support into consideration when making the determination.

    What I want to know is how the disability would effect my current child support if I went for a modification? I certainly do not want to go for a modification and receive a decrease.....as it is already hard enough to support the child on what I currently get.

    I know that the father makes a significant amount of money per yer and travels the world (irrelevant...LOL) for work.......the original court order was based upon his income straight out of college so I am sure his degree has taken him to a higher pay scale for sure as he is an engineer : )

    Anyway Is someone might know how the system works with modifications, and disability and is there a way to determine how much if at all the current child support might change? Please advise if you can help before I do this : )

    PS: I also do not want to see a huge increase that will force him to run again : ) and lets give some further info: The original court order which was ordered in 1998 was for $1,435.00/ month for one child and the end result of years of him disputing the amount resulted in an agreement between my attorney and him .....so you see why I think there is more available for my son : ) oh yea this is not really important....but to tell you what kind of guy he is......In 14 years he has never remembered his son's birthday, Christmas nothing ever not even a card or phone call : (

    Thanks!

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    Default Re: Child Support Modification After Going on Disability, Reduced Income

    On what would you be basing a modification?

    Let me put it this way - just because your income has gone down doesn't mean Dad's obligation will go up

    (Btw - despite popular myth, it's not actually DOR's responsibility to chase down deadbeats )

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    Cool Re: Child Support Modification After Going on Disability, Reduced Income

    No the modification does not come to mind because of the reduced income but rather that there has not been an increase ever and surely by now he can help in the financial raising of his child as he as an engineer for 14 years is making more.

    I always feared modifying the order thinking if I increased it at all that he would run and quit his job. That is what happened the first time and yes I found him.

    I know they do not have to find him but they do and did actually attempt to locate the deadbeat by skip tracing and it does not become their life mission but they helped......and yes it falls through the cracks ........so I assisted and I found him.

    I swear I became an employee there at the local office they all knew me by name : ) and called me Cagney & Lacey because I became a detective and found him.

    They also go through the IRS and can obtain W-2 information on locating them and at the same time attempt to intercept any refund they may have coming.

    And if you Work with the court to issue a writ, also known as an arrest warrant that always helps too and the suspension of the license stops them now in all 50 states from getting a new license. It was mandatory recently that all 50 states had to link in to some database to see, suspensions, etc. in other states.

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    Default Re: Child Support Modification After Going on Disability, Reduced Income

    Ooooppsss. Sorry new here and I am not sure it makes a difference or not but It appears that I jsut added to my original post and did not reply to you....so here it is : ) Sorry.


    Cool Re: Child Support Modification After Going on Disability, Reduced Income

    No the modification does not come to mind because of the reduced income but rather that there has not been an increase ever and surely by now he can help in the financial raising of his child as he as an engineer for 14 years is making more.

    I always feared modifying the order thinking if I increased it at all that he would run and quit his job. That is what happened the first time and yes I found him.

    I know they do not have to find him but they do and did actually attempt to locate the deadbeat by skip tracing and it does not become their life mission but they helped......and yes it falls through the cracks ........so I assisted and I found him.

    I swear I became an employee there at the local office they all knew me by name : ) and called me Cagney & Lacey because I became a detective and found him.

    They also go through the IRS and can obtain W-2 information on locating them and at the same time attempt to intercept any refund they may have coming.

    And if you Work with the court to issue a writ, also known as an arrest warrant that always helps too and the suspension of the license stops them now in all 50 states from getting a new license. It was mandatory recently that all 50 states had to link in to some database to see, suspensions, etc. in other states.

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