Then you're a deeadbeat.
The CP.
Eventually, the doctors are going to 1) refuse to see the child and 2) go after the other parent for payment of the bills that the deadbeat doesn't feel like paying.
And then the deadbeat will wind up in court on contempt charges.
Yup. They can refuse to accept partial payments, they can refuse a payment plan, it's at their discretion.
Ok so what if the deadbeat parent goes to court and lays out what they make, their bills, and says look obviously this 10-20 dollars a month is really ALL I have left to pay. And on top of that it's pretty hard to find a job that will work around another jobs fulltime schedule. The fact that they are paying something doesn't look better than not paying anything?
And what if the NCP doesn't pay anything until the point that they are threatened to go to court...then pays. Just to make life miserable for their child and the CP? Does this ever happen?
I'm thinking of getting a job. But can the NCP then take me back to court and have the order modified where I have to pay half of the medical bills? The only reason I'm not paying half now is because I don't have a job.