Pay support early?

[424Smudge]

What is the name of your state? Az

Is it legal for a judge to order you to pay your child support before it is actually due? My friend was ordered by a judge to pay his child support by the 29th or he was going to put a warrent out for his arrest. The courts changed his child support arrears monthly payment (an increase of 150 a month) and he didn't know they had done that. Even though he was covering his monthly CS obligation and the arrears that he thought he was supposed to pay, the commisioner laid into him on his review hearing on the 23rd because he was late on his arrears. He told the judge he could pay that immediatly and the comissioner said that he would have to pay that as well as his basic child support obligation by the 29th. The problem with that is he doesn't get paid until midnight on the 29th and cannot pay it until the 30th. He has also ordered that he has to pay his ex's lawyer directly and cannot make the payment through the clearinghouse. He doesn't really like this part of the order either because he was supposed to receive a 6,000 dollar credit and the judge told him to submit his information to her lawyer and he has yet to file this yet with the child support office. If he pays this to her lawyer he is afraid that it will not show on the payment files from the clearinghouse.

 

[seniorjudge]

Your payment is due on the date the court says it is due.

Make sure you get a receipt when you pay.

 

[424Smudge]

This is not for me how can he get a receipt? If he was ordered to pay it directly to her lawyer then how does he get one? He can keep the other half of the money order but I don't know how much that will mean.

 

[Zephyr]

how about when he hands the mney order to the lawyer he says something like "would so be so kind as to provide me a receipt?" then he takes his receipt and his money order carbon and places then in the nice little file he has going for child support stuff

 

[seniorjudge]

Q: This is not for me how can he get a receipt?

A: He should say to the person to whom he gives the money, "May I have a receipt, please?"


Q: If he was ordered to pay it directly to her lawyer then how does he get one?

A: See prior answer.


Q: He can keep the other half of the money order but I don't know how much that will mean.

A: It will mean he has half of the money order.

 

[Zephyr]

and if he doesn't get paid until after the support is due he can always pay it an actuall week early. or save a little money out of each paycheck throughout the month so he has the total he needs when it is due