Eileen4055
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What is the name of your state?What is the name of your state? New Hampshire
My former husband from Massachusetts, had been on worker's comp for three years. Which was garnished accordingly.
He never lowered the support when his pay got decreased due to his comp, because my attorney at the time expected to go to discovery before modifying anything. Discovery would have meant tax returns that he could not provide the courts. And he "has not" filed his taxes since approx. 2001.
In August of 2005, the support suddenly stopped.
I was told that his comp case had been closed with no further information.
By October, I had to put in for a hearing since he never contacted the dept. of revenue to report any change or to notify them of his change of address. All I knew was that my support had stopped all together and that he could not be reached.
Needless to say, tax intercept is not an option for me.
He hides his assets and does not even have a checking acct to enable anyone to track him.
At the October hearing, he failed to appear and the judge issued a capius arrest warrant.
This wasn't his first failure to appear. Actually, our file is full of contempts and failure to appears on his part. And he also has a history of working under the table, to avoid paying support.
He continues to avoid his obligation, refusing to tell me where he resides, etc. And he is denying ever knowing about the hearing back in October.
Which is untrue. Not only did it go to his last known address where the mother of his "4th" child currently resides, but I spoke to him the morning of the hearing and he led me to believe that he was going up until a few minutes prior to going in front of the judge. After I drove out of state to get there.
It wasn't until December 2005, when I received a tip that he had been working. Upon calling the location, he answered the phone there.
I immediately reported it to the dept. of revenue and they obtained the warrant to supposedly pick him up. However, by the time they processed everything, he had already quit. Now he is denying ever having worked there at all.
He had until this past Thursday to surrender, and never appeared.
Now they are sending the constable out for him.
He owes more than $5,500. His drivers license suspended.
But he claims to be homeless, moving around from one location to the next.
All I have is his last known address and a cell phone number that he seldom answers...
He has claimed to have obtained a lawyer through a friend, and has already filed something within the courts to overturn the entire thing. Using the excuse that he overpaid for the entire three years that he was on comp, expecting leniency based on that. Is that even possible?
Am I to believe that if they cannot find him, then it's a dead issue unless he turns himself in?
And what should I expect, if and when he does finally turn himself in? Will he go to jail?
So many "if's", but no answers...
Had they gone to the place of employment when I notified them back in December, all of this could have been prevented. The warrant which was supposedly with a constable for service, had been sitting on a shelf. Amongst 200+ other warrants, and in the wrong pile! Weeks went by before I found someone who would look into it for me. Only now are they proceeding. But with far less infomation as to his whereabouts. Is this hopeless?
My former husband from Massachusetts, had been on worker's comp for three years. Which was garnished accordingly.
He never lowered the support when his pay got decreased due to his comp, because my attorney at the time expected to go to discovery before modifying anything. Discovery would have meant tax returns that he could not provide the courts. And he "has not" filed his taxes since approx. 2001.
In August of 2005, the support suddenly stopped.
I was told that his comp case had been closed with no further information.
By October, I had to put in for a hearing since he never contacted the dept. of revenue to report any change or to notify them of his change of address. All I knew was that my support had stopped all together and that he could not be reached.
Needless to say, tax intercept is not an option for me.
He hides his assets and does not even have a checking acct to enable anyone to track him.
At the October hearing, he failed to appear and the judge issued a capius arrest warrant.
This wasn't his first failure to appear. Actually, our file is full of contempts and failure to appears on his part. And he also has a history of working under the table, to avoid paying support.
He continues to avoid his obligation, refusing to tell me where he resides, etc. And he is denying ever knowing about the hearing back in October.
Which is untrue. Not only did it go to his last known address where the mother of his "4th" child currently resides, but I spoke to him the morning of the hearing and he led me to believe that he was going up until a few minutes prior to going in front of the judge. After I drove out of state to get there.
It wasn't until December 2005, when I received a tip that he had been working. Upon calling the location, he answered the phone there.
I immediately reported it to the dept. of revenue and they obtained the warrant to supposedly pick him up. However, by the time they processed everything, he had already quit. Now he is denying ever having worked there at all.
He had until this past Thursday to surrender, and never appeared.
Now they are sending the constable out for him.
He owes more than $5,500. His drivers license suspended.
But he claims to be homeless, moving around from one location to the next.
All I have is his last known address and a cell phone number that he seldom answers...
He has claimed to have obtained a lawyer through a friend, and has already filed something within the courts to overturn the entire thing. Using the excuse that he overpaid for the entire three years that he was on comp, expecting leniency based on that. Is that even possible?
Am I to believe that if they cannot find him, then it's a dead issue unless he turns himself in?
And what should I expect, if and when he does finally turn himself in? Will he go to jail?
So many "if's", but no answers...
Had they gone to the place of employment when I notified them back in December, all of this could have been prevented. The warrant which was supposedly with a constable for service, had been sitting on a shelf. Amongst 200+ other warrants, and in the wrong pile! Weeks went by before I found someone who would look into it for me. Only now are they proceeding. But with far less infomation as to his whereabouts. Is this hopeless?
