Concerning Iowa Child Support...(Child Support Enforcement, Part II)

Below is a letter contributed to me by a good friend from Iowa who has chosen to be anonymous.  I've already written a rather comprehensive article concerning child support and child support collection, "Child Support Enforcement" which can be found  here:

http://themightyswordamericasdeadlysins.blogspot.com/2014/04/im-sorry-america.html

Now, before we print the letter, let's quickly go over some facts that you may as yet not know.

First, a lot of people are not aware of the fact that child support and their collections are done by none other than?  The Department of Human Services...or social services....or whatever...the very people responsible for the business of child removal.  Imagine that.  In the article linked above, this had been something I had not been aware of.  Once I made it down the rabbit hole, a lot of things I had considered to be a mystery about this rather mysterious collections industry became a lot more clear.  For instance, how they had the power they had to do pretty much whatever they wanted to do to get those collections of our money, and the fact that they could, at any time, suspend your licence or get you arrested for not paying.  Needless to say, all of those mysteries are now abated, since I now know who's responsible for them.

Now, before you folks get the idea that I'm some sort of bum or useless deadbeat dad who's sore about having to pay to support his kids, keep these three things in mind:

1.  The child I supported was a product of rape....yes, my psychotic ex-wife raped me while I slept, then took off when she was sure she was pregnant.  I didn't see her again until my divorce hearing, after she had the baby.  Naturally, I avoided paying her child support for as long as was humanly possible.  When I was officially arrested for non-payment, I drew out the money to pay all of the back child support in one...huge...chunk, so it wouldn't happen again. So, did arrest actually help then, as I like to claim that it doesn't, in 99% of cases?  Well....yeah, in my case.  What the child support laws DON'T tell you is that you can only be arrested for non-payment three times.  After that, they have to dismiss the entire payment...present and past.  How long, do you believe, will it take deadbeat dads to figure that out?  I happen to know several who already have.  Once you've served time for all 3 arrests, they have to let you out of the entire obligation.

2.  Once your name has been assigned on the birth certificate?  If you were to find out later that the child was not yours, there's no way to get it changed, after the deed is done, if the child is more than a year old.  Even before, you have to have court intervention and pay fees to get it done, if before a year has passed.

3.  If, by chance. the child was never yours, and you paid support for what could be up to 22 years?  You may as well pretty much write off all that money, because you'll never in life get it back.  In addition to this, if, halfway through paying, you do find out who the father is (and of course, clear your name in the process) social services a.k.a. child support recovery may not, at their discretion, change who pays the support.  And, if by some miracle, you do get them to go after the right father, this is a rather timely process that may, for all intents and purposes, take almost as long as it took to find out who the real father really was.

This letter considers the musings of one of our U.S. armed services veterans, where this often criminal organization is concerned, so therefore needed some light shed, in this writer's opine.

"Dear Congressman,

I have a question regarding child support in Iowa.  I will keep it very simple and brief.

Currently, Iowa law allows that if the payor of child support receives social security disability, then their child support will be reduced upon request, however, there are many payors of child support who are disable, but they only receive disability from the VA.   These Veterans are struggling with employment and unable to pay the amount of child support that they are ordered to pay and they are finding themselves facing license sanctions and even jail time.  What is wrong with this picture?  Why can a person receiving SSDI have their child support reduced, but a veteran, who has served his or her country in a combat zone and became disabled due to a war, cannot share this same right?  Is there anything you can do to change this immediately?  Would it help if I wrote a proposed bill to address this issue?

This is not doing right by our veterans who have sacrificed so much.

Thank you,

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I think it needs said...didn't you?