Child Support is both a good thing, and a bad thing. It is good to be able to provide financial support for your children. If you lose your job, get laid off, become ill, or even have a medical issue that creates signifigant limitations, it is a horrible situation. The government can look at documentation such as a FCE Functional Capacity Evaluation, signed by a doctor and a physical therapist, and tell you that you can still work. They do not stop to take in consideration what the limitations are.

If an FCE says that you can never climb laters, climb stairs, bend, crouch, kneel, or lift, you are in a rough situation. Disability says that they do not find your evidence as sufficent to recieve disability. But then the fact remains that you are severley limited on the jobs you can do. In this example you would become a liability to the company, so therefor they will not hire you.

Child Support still has to be paid. You are suffering through the fact you are having a hard time finding work. Then the state suspends your drivers license. As if taking your license will help you be able to find work, and provide support. They then decide if they will take your taxes, they even take recreational licenses away, bad news for people behind on child support, who hunt or fish.

Suspending the license I would like to try to change, it creates a huge barrier. How can I possibly make it from the country to the nearest town nearly an hour away in driving time? How can I maintain this job when they have suspended my license, and the new job I have requires me to have one?

Right there is my point, many jobs require you to have reliable transportation, but when there is no public busing, or transportation, how are you even supposed to get to a job. Especially if you do not know anyone who, can or is willing to transport you.

Next I bring to you, the Criminal Penalties of not being able to pay support. Getting a job with a misdameanour is challenging already. In some states not being able to pay Child Support is a felony. This presents the biggest barrier. Most jobs require clean background checks. Even if it is over child support most jobs will judge you because of a conviction.

I ask that we please try to change these laws. I will agree that Child Support should be payed. But in the thoughts of many it should not be a jailable offence. I propose that we stop the prisons and jails from being over crowded because "daddy lost his job", or if he has been injured or fallen ill.

I say now that by adding a criminal label to a person for child support creates the following barriers, Misdameanour: Difficulties finding job placement, Overcrowding of jails, illions of tax payers dollars going to pay for a persons whom can not afford the court ordered amount, to sit in jail. Felony: The hardest difficulties, even getting a job interview, let alone a job. Loss of the following rights: Can not own a home, Can not own a gun, Can not vote, are just a few examples.

By taking a persons right to vote away over child support is wrong. For example new law makers are fighting for fathers rights, or to change child support laws, regulations, and stipulations, and the person who really has been fighting for their rights, now can not vote. My point here is that taxpayers spend more money by seeing a person, that is not able to keep up with child support sent to jail. Every day the state loses X amount of money for every inmate housed in jails and prisons. Please save jails and Prisons for the real criminals. Real Criminals Example: Pedophiles, Rapists, Murders, Arsonists, Armed Robbers.

In some cases it feels like the courts when issusing the support, want you to do them a favor and rob a bank. They see thier golden ticket Dont pay support go to jail, Rob a bank to get support because you are going through hardship, or you are working but just not making enough to keep up, and go to jail. It really needs to change.

Finally is it just to charge a father with a misdameanour or felony because he is flat broke? Is it okay for the mother to not let the father ever see his child because he is flat broke? Is it okay or in anyway, shape, or form, for a mother to tell the child that the father is dead, and has been for years, but drag him to court because he is behind on child support.

If a parenting plan is set it needs to be explained in front of both mother, and father, and thier legal representatives. It should not be justified that a father be ordered to pay support on a child, that he will never get to know, or be able to spend time with, due to the mothers hate for broke daddies.

If a mother is able to attend a child support hearing that stipulates the calculations of the amount that will be awarded, so should the father. If a mother is able to have legal representation calculate income, so should the father. If a mother is able to recieve support, a father should be allowed to be in court at the sametime, with legal representation. Child support should not be awarded unless both parties are involved in the hearing with legal representation, unless one of the parties decides to waive the rights of the hearing. I am looking for truth to prevail and justice to be found.

FATHERS SHOULD HAVE RIGHTS, when it comes to Child support hearings, fathers should have rights to legal councel, fathers should have rights to have visitation, fathers should have rights to a fair hearing. Fathers should have the rights not to be jailed for child support if there is limiting circumstances that can be proven in the court of law including, all documentation from medical professionals, and all results of evaluations be submitted into evidence. Fathers should have the right to keep a license so they can look for work, and obtain and maintain employment. Fathers whom are struggling are still people. Not every dad that is going through these struggles should be viewed as deadbeats. A deadbeat dad is the dad that has kids, that does not even care they exist, that would rather die than try to support his children. There is a difference, please help me voice it.