How can I pay child support if I am unable to work ?

Answer 1

Get a job. Your ex has a child or children to support. How do you expect them to do it and why should they carry your responsibility for it as well? GET A JOB!

~ Spoken as the ex who is owed a lot of bucks and know how hard it is when a jerk doesn't pay what he owes.

Are you my ex? If you are, they are looking for you.....

Best Wishes,

Sue

Answer 2

If you are unable to work, how are you living? If you say you are on disablity pay, then you must still pay at least 40% of you disability income as child support. Just because you are not working or unable to work does not release you from your responsibility and obligation to the children you helped produced.

Answer 3

This is actually a common situation. I know of a couple of people who are actually not able to work because of a severe physical condition and they are waiting for their Social Security Disability to start (that is generally a two to three year wait in my area--it is all of the appeals).

My suggestion to you is to look in the phone book and see if you can find the state organization for legal aid for indigents. This can be found in most states--you just have to look because it can go by various titles. You may have a county or regional office. Hopefully the legal aid folks will assign you a lawyer to whom you can tell your situation and start a judicial process where you can get some relief.

Good luck...from what folks have told me, the child support folks are harder to escape from than the hounds of Hades.

Answer 4

How "unable" are you? You can use a computer. I think you are able to work, you just choose not to. In any event, child support is a court order and until/unless that order is changed, it must be obeyed.

Answer 5

collect cans, get a part time job, borrow money, the court doesnt really care where you get it as long as they get it. How would you support the child if he/she lived with you? You cant get out of child support just cause you dont have a job. Now if permanently disabled you might have a chance until disability comes in.

Answer 6

Why are you unable to work? Are you getting unemployment or disability? You have a computer, try to get a job working from home. Do surveys or something.

or you could...

Rob a liqour store. Or a bank. Or just don't pay it and go to jail. It's really not that bad in there. 3 free meals a day. Plenty of friends to play with. Free use of a gym. Cable TV.

Answer 7

If you are not working, how are you supporting yourself? Where ever that money is comming from, a portion of it will go to your children's caretaker. That includes SSI/SSD and welfare income. You cannot get out of paying child support by quitting your job.

Answer 8

a friend lost his damn leg for Gods sake and he went to prison in S.C. for not paying child support.one fourth of all people in S.C. jails are there for non support, there should be some compassion for people who get disabled.and people who cant work, they should help people find some type of job.but people should try to pay child support payments. but there needs to be some balance and thought behind it all. not just prison for those who cant make the payments.Its hard to legislate compassion into governments laws.

Answer 9

You must have income from somewhere. You chose to make a child. Now you must live up to the responsibility of supporting that child!

Don't be a deadbeat!!!!

Answer 10

if you are unable to work, you need to file a motion to temporarily modify the amount of support you pay until you get back to work.