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I am currently paying CS out of my paycheck (~$1000 per month) and that includes a portion of the arrears.  I know they take tax refunds but don't they have to issue a lien or something on retirement?

I hope that's the case.  I'm not trying to dodge paying as I have made a lump sum payment last month ($1200) to try to get things down.  My car is dead and I need the 401k to get it fixed...  :-(

I did have a bonus from that employer last year garnished so I know they do take lump sum payments if I have them coming but I hope retirement is different from payroll...

I have two orders, one in Alaska and one in Washington. I work in Oregon.

I was employed by a Oregon employer for 2 years and had an Alaska CS order garnishing my wages. I left the employer almos a year ago and moved (still in OR) and have a new employer. That employer has wage garnishment notices from Alaska and now from Washington.

Combined I owe about $3k in arrears associated with being in between jobs and retro in the Washington case.

Last month I opted to cash out my 401k from my previous employer. With this payment be garnished? I don't believe that employer ever got notice from Washington and don't the withholding notices terminate when employment terminates?

Posted this on Soc's board too...


Child support has not been set in my case yet. We have a hearing sometime in Oct. for the amount to be determined. I currently live in Southern Oregon and my wife (Divorce is not final) moved to Spokane, WA with our son without my "permission". The travel cost is a major financial hardship for excersising my parenting time. In fact, I will be filing Chapt. 7 next week.

I am looking at moving to Spokane but the job market (in my field) is very limited there and I will need to switch fields. I am looking at the possibility of a $30,000+ pay cut when I move. After the chapt. 7, I will be able to live on the new salary but I'm concerned that the court will consider this being "voluntarily underemployed" and set CS based on my previous salary.

Do you have any insight on this? Will I be punished for moving closer and having to take a lower paying job?

My son is too young to transfer planes so he can only fly direct flights.  That means right now he flys into Portland and I drive 5.5 hours each way to pick him up.  This will be very dangerous in the winter as there are two passess (5000') that we would have to go over.

My salary would still be over the state's "standard" that they use for umputing income.

Oh, and no I do not have a Washington attorney yet, I am looking.

It's in Spokane.

Here's what it looks like they are doing:

We lived in Washington for 3 years after living in Oregon for 5 years.

We moved back to Oregon and my wife is saying that she was here a couple weeks shy of 6 months because the last few weeks she was in Alaska on vacation.

She is also saying that she was in Alaska for only 5.5 months before she moved back to Washington.

So they are saying that she never gave up her Washington residency.

Well, I was served papers late last night.  My wife filed for divorce in Washington as well as ex parte protective orders and emergency custody.  The hearing was scheduled for 8:30 this morning in Washington.

My attorney called her attorney and he agreed to postpone by two weeks.

Now I guess we have to fight for jurisdiction for the divorce and custody too.

Wife, child (born in Oregon) and I lived in Oregon for 5 years. We moved to Washington and lived there for 3 years but I still worked in Oregon.  We then moved back to Oregon and lived here for 7 months.  My wife left with our son and lived in Alaska for 6 months and is now in Washington State (1.5 months).

She has requested CS in Washington and they contacted me. She has been in Washington for about a month and half. I have filed for divorce in Oregon and have asked for custody.  She avoided service for a few months until we served her boyfriend instead of her. Her boyfriend told the process server on several occasions that he didn't know her and she didn't live there.

The CS office in Washington told me that they have jurisdiction but after reading their rules it is very shaky and I believe that Oregon actually has jurisdiction.

I received a notice in the mail from the CS division asking if I would send them proof of insurance for our son. I was just sent via regular mail and didn't say anywhere on it that I was required to answer. I'm wondering if they are hoping I answer thus allowing them jurisdiction.

My question is as follows:

Is there any reason for me to push to have the CS order brought to Oregon or should I just let Washington do it?  Additionally, does Oregon have jurisdiction over custody?

I get him for all school breaks and one additional weekend each month.  It works out to 2 visits each month.  For summer, he's with me for all of July and half of August.

The frequent contact is very importing (I think) and our son gets pretty upset when things happen and he misses his visit.

I get to claim him every other year right now so I'm asking for her year too.

I just feel so bad for my son.  In the last 3 years she has moved him from Oregon to Alaska to Washington and now to Vegas...

Divorce has been settled for about 2 years and my parenting time with our 8-year old son has been wonderful.  She lives in Washington state, I live in Oregon.  I buy 18 plane ticket per year and she buys 6.

She just called and told me that she was mailing notification that they are moving to Nevada in a couple weeks.  She told me she knew she isn't giving me the proper notice but hopes that we can make it work.  

The current ticket cost for me is $130 each ticket.  The new cost is $261.  I asked if there was any way she could pick up some addition tickets.  She said their finances won't allow it.

Our salaries are about this Me: 80% her:20%

The added cost is a big hit for me financially.

I know I can object to the move and it will cause them to postpone the move and I will get a hearing but I'm pretty sure the court isn't going to stop them from moving.  Her husband's job is relocating him.  Maybe if I lived in the same town but not since he's already traveling to be with me.

What are my options?

Should I just dig deeper in my pocket and get the $$?

Should I propose me getting her years for claiming him on taxes?

We had a pretty nasty 2+ year divorce fight and we are just now on speaking terms, I don't want to go back to lawyers..