Question by CaCO3Girl: Any Child Support Recovery, GA, people on here, or someone that has had an ex thrown in jail for non-payment?
I am becoming exceedingly frustrated. My husband has custody of his son, and his ex was ordered to pay child support. The short story is that she has refused to do this and on 6/9 Child Support recovery took her to court for contempt, and she didn’t even show up for that. We were told “An Arrest order in the full amount of the back child support owed will be issued”. We asked about it more plainly and they said “We are going to lock her in jail and the only way out for her is to come up with everything that she owes you.”

Okay, pretty plain!!! That was on 6/9, and there is still no warrant for her. The Child Support Recovery office said it takes time to draw up the papers, and then get them to the judge and then back to the cops. But how much time does this take???

During the summer his ex gets his son every other week. We don’t want him at her house when the cops come to arrest her, but we can’t seem to get anyone to give us a time schedule on when this will happen.

Anyone out there have ANY idea??? ANY?????

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Answer by PrettyPixels
I’m not in GA but here in PA to get any satisfaction out of the people at Domestic Relations (Child Support office) you need an attorney. I have a friend without an attorney and there are constant warrants out for her ex, she even calls the police and child support office when she see’s him around town telling them the exact location where they can pick him up. They don’t pick him up usually until she really raises a fuss, calls over and over again for weeks on end or he gets picked up by accident for doing something else and they find the warrants for the support in the system by coincidence.

On the other hand, I have an attorney and my ex got so far in arrears that they gave him a set amount of time to pay x amount. He didn’t pay, I picked up my phone and called my attorney when I didn’t get the money and the following weekend he was in jail. For some reason lawyers can make things happen around here when it comes to support enforcement. I don’t know if it’s this way in GA. I am not the only one I know who this happens to and I am still not sure what the mechanics are behind it and why they get results.

I suggest calling a lawyer anyway and find out what you can do and if you can keep your child from the visits so your child isn’t exposed to a scene should she gets arrested. You might also get some muscle behind your issue with the support as well if you have a lawyer.

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Question by CaCO3Girl: Any Child Support Recovery, GA, people on here, or someone that has had an ex thrown in jail for non-payment?
I am becoming exceedingly frustrated. My husband has custody of his son, and his ex was ordered to pay child support. The short story is that she has refused to do this and on 6/9 Child Support recovery took her to court for contempt, and she didn’t even show up for that. We were told “An Arrest order in the full amount of the back child support owed will be issued”. We asked about it more plainly and they said “We are going to lock her in jail and the only way out for her is to come up with everything that she owes you.”

Okay, pretty plain!!! That was on 6/9, and there is still no warrant for her. The Child Support Recovery office said it takes time to draw up the papers, and then get them to the judge and then back to the cops. But how much time does this take???

During the summer his ex gets his son every other week. We don’t want him at her house when the cops come to arrest her, but we can’t seem to get anyone to give us a time schedule on when this will happen.

Anyone out there have ANY idea??? ANY?????
FYI, we waited a full year after we got custody to even bring her to child support recovery. My husband could have asked for hundreds of dollars a week, and he asked for just , because she does have other kids and he didn’t want to be mean. The custody order required child support to be awarded, and we had a hard time with the judge allowing that little. And yes we are worried that my step son will see his mom arrested, but we gave her a year to pay child support, and she felt above it. They suspended her drivers license and she is still above it, they asked her to go to court and explain herself, she didn’t show up. I have no sympathy for someone who has been given every opprotunity to make things right, and just ignors all help because she thinks she is too good for it.

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Answer by Chad B
Things take time, that is anything that has to do with bureaucracy does at least. I would imagine it would take anywhere from 30 to 90 days or 4 to 6 business weeks (remember, don’t count weekends!!) I would go down to the police station and ask to speak to who is in charge and explain the situation as nicelyy as possible, it is easier for someone to blow you off on the phone, but harder for them to blow you off in person…..

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