Mobile Judges refuse to enforce child support orders. BOTTOM LINE!!! I took my ex to court in 2006 because he wasnt paying me my court ordered child support. The Judge repeatedly continued my case over a period of 3 years with my ex NEVER giving me a dime in child support. After 3 years the Judge finally ruled in my favor because my ex didnt show up to court. He ruled that my ex owed me over 27 thousand dollars. He awarded me the claim in the form of a JUDGEMENT!!! He didnt say how I was to receive this judgement and didn't even mention the interest accrued on what was owed. I went to DHR and asked them to suspend my ex's drivers licence. DHR said my ex wouldn't sign the certified letter (notification of suspension) so they couldn't suspend his licence. I asked DHR to put a lien on his bank account. DHR told me I would need to provide them with his bank account numbers. I then asked why they didnt use the Financial Institution Data Match System. The intake worker didnt have a clue what I was talking about. She asked me "where are you getting this information from". I said "your web site".The DHR worker said she would put the inquiry in my file. I asked about income withholding (I provided his employment information and told DHR he is the manager). DHR said they sent a notice to his employment but it was returned saying "no one by that name works here". No one cares if custodial parents receive a dime of child support. Alabama DHR needs to be completly overhauled! I was assigned a case worker and I've never even spoken with her or had any communication with her.

I live in Mobile County. My ex owes me $80,000. He occasionally pay me $150 a month. He gets SSI, 60% VA Disability and annuities from his mother's estate...he brings home over $3000 a month and I work 50 hours a week and don't make that much. My kids are grown now but they could still use braces that I couldn't pay for when they were teenagers. He lives in TN and won't come into Alabama. It would be nice to get some of the money that I'm owed.

THAT SOME BS, BECAUSE MY CHILD'S FATHER OWES OVER $7,000 IN BACK CHILD SUPPORT FOR HIS TWO CHILDREN. HE OWES ME ABOUT $4,500 AND THE OTHER CHILD'S MOTHER ABOUT $ 2,500. THE JUDGE HAVE BEEN THREATENED TO PLACED IN JAIL FOR NON-PAYMENT MORE THAN ONE TIME AND HE HASN'T BEEN ARRESTED YET. HE JUMPS FROM JOB TO JOB. THIS HAS BEEN GOING FOR OVER 7 YRS NOW. SO WHEN CAN I EXPECT FOR MOBILE COUNTY TO STEP THEIR GAME UP AND TO AS THEY SAY AND INFORCE THE PAYMENT OF CHILD SUPPORT. SOME GOOD FATHER HAVE TO SUFFER BECAUSE OF THE DEADBEATS.

@FEDUP DAD. ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS TO GO DOWN TO THE SSI OFFICE AND SIGN FOR YOUR CHILDREN TO GET A CHECK AND THEY WILL STOP TAKING IT OUT OF YOUR CHECK

The only Federally Funded study ever conducted on the subject of child support showed that when employed, American men pay (See “Fact” above) between 83 and 91% of all court ordered child support, and that they do so without intervention of any kind. But, when these figures became apparent Wayne Stanton, then head of the National Child Support Collection Agency in D.C. who commissioned the inquiry, had the study DISCONTINUED! In fact, Stanton’s office demanded a Federal Freedom of Information Act submission merely to retrieve the study’s data. Its all about money folks, tax payer money, and if Ms. Ramey would take the time to find out what the annual Baldwin County budget for case management and child support collection is, she’d not only be stunned, but she’d be onto something. Best Interest of the Child? Not bloody likely! What follows is the REAL alarming concern, ladies and gentlemen. Exhaustive research conducted by Dr. Stephen Baskerville, PhD. while in residence at Howard University in D.C. showed that: “Most people are now familiar with the social consequences of the divorce explosion: the growth of single-parent homes and massive increase in fatherless children. The Pandora’s box of social problems this has released has also reached general awareness. Virtually every major personal and social pathology can be traced to fatherlessness more than to any other single factor: violent crime, substance abuse, unwed pregnancy, truancy, suicide, and more. Fatherlessness far surpasses both poverty and race as a predictor of social deviance.”

The fundamental question that for forty years now, has never been answered (nor the Fact disputed) by any Government Official nor Legislator is this: Why is it, that in U.S. Divorce and or Custody Cases mothers are awarded Primary Physical Custody of minor children - when such children are involved - over 90% of the time? - Not 75% of the time or half the time, fully over 90% of the time Mom gets the kids. Why? Well, after studying the Family Law and Child Support Collection Industries for over twenty years, I can pretty much assure you why this bias-against-fathers dynamic remains as the status quo in Family Court: When children reside with their fathers, The Baldwin County Child Support Division - as well as the hangers on in the public and private sectors - earn nothing; period! In California alone, we have over 8,000 men paying child support for children that DNA evidence has proven they didn’t father; why? Quota! If the Golden State were to emancipate these men from this assigned debt, the State risks losing the $90+ million Federal Dollars it receives ANNUALLY (Your form 1040 folks) for its child support collection and case management efforts. Not a single dollar of those Federal Funds ever makes its way into the lives of children of divorce or impoverished kids, no. Instead, those funds finance the salaries, benefits packages, paid vacation time, and pensions of people employed by that industry, people just like your Andrea Chastang and Hallie Dixon. If such a thing as fair and balanced journalism truly existed, Ms. Ramey could of at least asked Director Andrea Chastang what her tax payer funded salary is; that’s the figure the tax payers of Baldwin County should be interested in and reading or hearing about.

What a Crock of BS.This report is skewed and nothing more than liberal gender warfare.With obvious goal of stirring the female views angst toward men. Not one Father with a deadbeat mom was interviewed. Granted the majority of deadbeat parents are Fathers.But that is Because of the bias favoring women in the court system. My father paid Little and at times no CS, during the 60's & 70's. My mother worked 9 hours a day in a factory for over 20 years to support by brother and I. Never once taking food stamps or welfare or any government "feel good" dollars.This report is an excellent example of why Americans do not trust the media. Journalism? Give me a break!One little blurb regarding deadbeat mom's at the end of the report.With No Deadbeat mom Facts.AS long as the system is skewed in favor of the women this problem will never go away. And a new government program will not fix a Dam thing.And just for the record, for those sycophants that have judge me to be deadbeat dad with an Axe to grind. I had sole custody of my sons and my x never paid one red cent in CS.

I am not a deadbeat father. i am on s.s.i and they garnish my check every month. after my garnishment i am left with only $296.00 to live off of.I asked for a reduction so i could survive and was told that sears gives away cardboard boxes out everyday. so how is that fair people. and further more the mother was also ordered to pay childsupport so she is a deadbeat mother. i was given every other weekend and every other holiday. and since 2001 i seen my kids just one christmas. plus they each recieve a check off my s.s.i but mobile county nor will alabama help me get my visitations.. so what about the fathers that do what they are supposed to do and they in turn stil get screwed by your alabama system.. why does channel or any other news source or even the d.a's report on that problem huh???????? whats good for goose is just as good for the gander... so hey d.a's in balwdin and mobile county get off your butts and help the ones that doing what they are supposed to be doing and and are getting screwed.. and hey chanel 5 why dont you check into that for a story for your readers and audience huh!!!!!!!

How does Baldwin County Expect to ever get a handle on deadbeat dads when the judges not only allow it to happen but encourage it. We went to trial in baldwin county to collect child support, the dead beat dad was then given custody, the reasons given were that I dont attend church and that my wive, the childrens mother, did not work, and that the judge did not believe that I would stay with her and the children would therefore be better off with the dead beat dad. If it sounds outragious and impossible yes I agree, were it not to have happened I would scarcely believe it myself.

DHR is a joke! I've been divorced since 95, my ex-husband owes more than $150,000 in back child support! I've hired attorney's, still no luck! I did receive a judgment in 2005 for $117,000.....and, that was it...it is just a judgment....he has never spent one night in jail for back child support, and he still has a valid driver's license! Our judicial system is HORRIBLE!!