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the best way around that law is to go to a country like Costa Rica and get a driver's license from that country. The US can't suspend that driver's license so you can drive all you want on the CR license. I did it and it works!!

does anyone know if I can't afford the cs amount but I pay what I can afford will the system put me in jail anyway. The amount I am supposed to be paying is 1500.00 per month but I can only afford about 300.00 per month. Will paying 300.00 per month be enough to keep me out of jail?

>First may I ask why you would be thrown in jail??? My ex is
>over $20k in arrears and in contempt many many times and has
>gone to jail twice (for like a week) and that is only because
>he failed to appear in court for the umteen time.
 
I have already been thrown in jail for 10 days and the last time I went to court the judge said 90 days for contempt if I don't pay within 10 days. He made it clear that he didn't like me and that he didn't believe me that I couldn't pay. When they first figured out my income I didn't have lyme disease and rheumatoid arthritis. Also they didn't do the figures correctly. They used all my overtime and didn't subtract out my expenses. I was a union worker and according to the rules my pay can only be based on 40 hours because overtime is not mandatory. I have to pay union dues and licenses and other things that they didn't subtract out. They based my child support on over $100k per year. Without overtime that figure should be more like $60k per year. I tried paying less and the judge still put me in jail. I refuse to go back to jail, I have committed no crime. Civil contempt is not technically a crime, you don't get convicted by a jury. Its just a convenient tool judges use to get their way.

friends and family is how I am being supported

Thank you for your kind and caring advice. You are really the first person that ever had something nice to say to me about the situation that I am in. Most people don't understand and are only concerned about the money. Obviously this issue goes far beyond money. Thank you again, its people like you who give me hope that one day this will be behind me.

I would need to return to the USA just to pay something. I have no job where I am now and its illegal for anyone here to hire me without citizenship or residency. I can't pay anything unless they let me come back and I can't come back until they agree not to incarcerate me.

 My payment was based on false figures that my ex supplied to the court. I never could afford even one payment at the amount accessed to me. I had to move outside the USA just to avoid incarceration. If I could get my payment reduced to say $300 per month I could afford to pay every month. I just had a phone hiring with a Magistrate yesterday and I don't think he will reduce it down enough. What can I do to get it reduced to an amount I can afford? I can't come back to the USA until I get it fixed and no money gets paid until I can return without incarceration.

Ref exactly!!!!

You said "BTW the term ignorant isn't bad. It just means uneducated about a certain topic. I don't think the orginal poster wrote it in the commonly misused context of "stupid".

You are correct the word ignorant is not a negative term it simply means lack of knowledge on a given subject.

 DON'T UNDERESTIMATE HOW BAD THE SYSTEM CAN BE.


Don't make the mistake of thinking the "justice system" is about "justice."

Don't make the mistake of thinking that if the truth is on your side, you'll be OK. The truth may be out there, but it rarely matters in family court.

 

"Taken Into Custody" by Stephen Baskerville
Why the "deadbeat dad" is not only a myth but a hoax - the creation of government officials who plunder parents whose children the government itself has taken away. A parent whose children are taken away by a family court is only at the beginning of his troubles. The next step he is summoned to court and ordered to pay as much as two-thirds or even more of his income as "child support" to whomever has been given custody. His wages will immediately be garnished and his name entered on a federal register of "delinquents." This is even before he has had a chance to become one, though it is also likely that the order will be backdated, so he will already be delinquent as he steps out of the courtroom. If the ordered amount is high enough and the backdating far enough, he will be an instant felon and subject to immediate arrest.
It is difficult to believe such a thing can happen in a country with the Bill of Rights...."
This book really exposes the truth a must read for those who refuse to believe what is happening in this country right now
The government and the feminists only want you to see men as paychecks and felons!!!