getting jail time for unpaid child support is in accordance to state laws.
when a child becomes emancipated,the compelling governmental intrest "for the best intrest of the child" is then lost.
It is very difficult to get a conviction of non-support when the person granted support is no longer a child.
by law effects of law is changed in the matters of collections,and convictions.
as time is very dangerouse,procrastinating actually can be harmful to both sides,because now you have to prove at any given time of non-support when the child was a minor had been in immediate neccesitate needs.
And you must bear the burden that the obliger did have the means and was not willfull in failing to make a valid court ordered payment(s).
under the matters of federal criminal contempt(interstate cases),a person who resides in a state that owes arrearages of $5,000.00 in back child support,to a minor child,or to a person on behalf of a minor child who resides in another state may be charged criminally and be imprisonend for up to 2 years in a state penitentiary.
Though many courts rulings are contrary to this one,this ruling still holds a precedence as well with the defendants asserting rebuttle, "title U.S.C 42,which gives the defendent the burden of refutting the presumption that if the government produced a support order then the defendent was able to pay violated the defendents rights of due process".