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devilleather

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

I have been paying child support now for almost a year, it comes directly out of my check each week as it shows on the check stub. My problem is that my ex wife doesn't receive the payments consistently and tells me that its behind by a few hundred dollars. When I ask my employers secretary she tells me that its not her fault and it must be my ex's fault. Other employees have had the same problem and have ended up back in court, me and my ex wife have a good relationship as we still have children to raise and we share custody and expenses 50/50 so she doesn't want to bring it back to court. By my employers track record i personally believe he's keeping the money into an account to draw as much interest as he can before he has to send some out to my ex. Is there anyone I can contact that can straighten out my employer for me? Thank you
 


LdiJ

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

I have been paying child support now for almost a year, it comes directly out of my check each week as it shows on the check stub. My problem is that my ex wife doesn't receive the payments consistently and tells me that its behind by a few hundred dollars. When I ask my employers secretary she tells me that its not her fault and it must be my ex's fault. Other employees have had the same problem and have ended up back in court, me and my ex wife have a good relationship as we still have children to raise and we share custody and expenses 50/50 so she doesn't want to bring it back to court. By my employers track record i personally believe he's keeping the money into an account to draw as much interest as he can before he has to send some out to my ex. Is there anyone I can contact that can straighten out my employer for me? Thank you
The employer may also have some cash flow issues and therefore pays inconsistently as well, its a common problem. The only way to try to improve it is to try to get the child support enforcement agency to fine the employer.
 

nextwife

Senior Member
The employer may also have some cash flow issues and therefore pays inconsistently as well, its a common problem. The only way to try to improve it is to try to get the child support enforcement agency to fine the employer.
And that does NOT go over well with an employer, so it may be an unwise approach unless you know that employer absolutely, positively can't manage without you.
 

Zigner

Senior Member, Non-Attorney
What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? Indiana

I have been paying child support now for almost a year, it comes directly out of my check each week as it shows on the check stub. My problem is that my ex wife doesn't receive the payments consistently and tells me that its behind by a few hundred dollars. When I ask my employers secretary she tells me that its not her fault and it must be my ex's fault. Other employees have had the same problem and have ended up back in court, me and my ex wife have a good relationship as we still have children to raise and we share custody and expenses 50/50 so she doesn't want to bring it back to court. By my employers track record i personally believe he's keeping the money into an account to draw as much interest as he can before he has to send some out to my ex. Is there anyone I can contact that can straighten out my employer for me? Thank you
Do you understand how much interest somebody would receive on "a few hundred dollars" in a month? Do the math - we're talking under a buck.

It's more likely a matter of timing on the payments.
 

Antigone*

Senior Member
Do you understand how much interest somebody would receive on "a few hundred dollars" in a month? Do the math - we're talking under a buck.

It's more likely a matter of timing on the payments.
Especially when rates on money market accounts are at historical lows.
 

nextwife

Senior Member
A small business may have a part time person that comes in a couple times a month to handle this sort of disbursement. Or they outsource the processing and the company who handles these for them does all this company disbursements to CS, or all of their collective client's on the same two days or so of each month.
 

devilleather

Junior Member
Do you understand how much interest somebody would receive on "a few hundred dollars" in a month? Do the math - we're talking under a buck.
Its not just my few hundred bucks, there;s a couple more people as I stated earlier with cs payment problems and it doesn't affect only cs payments but also all employees 1$ per hour vacation fund supposed to be deposited into a credit union and also shows on my check stub, however mine and others show no money in the account. This company deals with millions of dollars each year and I know for a fact their behind hundreds of thousands

A small business may have a part time person that comes in a couple times a month to handle this sort of disbursement
my cs payments are 20$ per wk so a few hundred dollars is many weeks behind unless they come in every 6 months
 
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