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Tax Records of Parents Who Don't Pay Child Support May Be Opened

Thursday, February 19, 2004, 12:16 p.m.

(Springfield-AP) -- Prosecutors soon might be able to peek into the tax
records of people they think are lying about their income to avoid
child-support payments.

An Illinois House committee approved a bill today that would let state's
attorneys obtain tax returns from the Illinois Department of Revenue.

The returns would be used to determine a parent's income and whether they
are meeting their child-support obligations.

The bill now goes to the full House.

The committee also rejected legislation to allow support payments to be
withdrawn automatically from a self-employed parent's checking account.

Lawmakers said the bill should spell out whether someone could be forced
to sign up for automatic withdrawal.

(The bills are HB4076, HB4132. On the Net: http://www.legis.state.il.us )

Not to take away from the seriousness of this post but please consider the following :

1).  State Attorneys will be to busy enforcing the Unlawful Visitation Interference criminal statues ( 720 ILCS 5/10-5.5 ) to concern itself with putting more money into the state government pockets under the disquise of CS.

2).  DOR probably couldn't find a return.

On the other hand, "the best politians money can buy" ... one of my uncles useta have that inscribed on a ball cap ... need to find a way to pay for that DCFS  $ 42,000,000.00 off-the-shelf software package that did not work.

Let's hope other states do not follow Illinois in anything dealing with children.  Illinois was singled out in a book entitled "Our Endangered Children" (1983; Vance Packard) as a haven for mothers obtaining favorable custody rulings even without jurisdiction (Parental Abductions).