liquor license revoc. employer noncompliant child support garnishment

[incredulousmom]

What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)?

KENTUCKY

Is there some sort of rule or regulation regarding revocation, suspension or something like that of a liquor license for a restaurant owner not complying with child support withholding order for an employee?

The owner of the restaurant with the liquor licenses happens to be the brother of the noncustodial father.

Because of who these guys are and who their family is, I have been unable to get child support enforcement at the local county level. Enforcement at the state level said it's up to the local county office to get it done. However, I keep getting one excuse after another and now I'm wondering if I should get ABC involved, maybe prompting him to do the right thing for his nieces.

I see that his license was just renewed a few months back and it occurred to me that being noncompliant with a child support withholding order may affect his liquor license in a negative way.

I THINK that his noncompliance is a felony, as well, but I'm not sure.

I'm not trying to screw him, just want him to remit the garnished wages that their father is working for and that his nieces deserves..and needs.

Their father just moved out from his grandparents' home and in with another woman with a child, along about the same time that his employer (brother) stopped paying, and I suspect he did so to give him the extra money needed to rent another place and support these two people rather than his own daughters.

The county child support office keeps either ignoring the requests of my state's interstate CS worker, or giving lame excuses that it's the accountant's fault, when he's the one that signs the checks and submits them to the state. Also, saying that they are afraid to interfere with the employer too much for fear that he will drop him from payroll! WOW

Over the 31 weeks of this year alone, he's only remitted payments for 12 weeks' worth. The garnished wages each week include a small amount to start working down the arrears from years past. Instead of going down in his arrearage, he's only going up. Kentucky hasn't done anything over the last one year to remedy this, other than to send him 1 non-threatening letter that was basically a reminder.

I've repeatedly asked for a performance bond to be issued for the arrearage against the employer and the noncustodial parent if needed, but to no avail.

I've considered getting a federal attorney in my state involved and/or both governors and some key US senators involved, or at least informed, if necessary. However, it seems like losing his liquor license or having it suspended until he remedies it would be the better squeeze on him, since it's the backbone of his restaurant and the only restaurant in town that has a liquor license. He worked hard against the city and its citizens to get the license...losing it would be the only thing that seems to matter to him. A year in jail and/or $500 fine doesn't seem forthcoming any time soon.

Should I also risk my child support case being closed by contacting the Attorney General's office in KY or the Office of General Counsel...who should have already been notified by the local county worker that he's being noncompliant?

Also, the county attorney that would prosecute him happens to also be his private attorney in the restaurant. The child support office is ran not by him but by a special prosecutor contracted to run that county.

What WOULD work, in your opinion? Thanks so much!What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)?