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| Ohio changes child support tactics |
| By mansfieldnewsjournal.com - Jessica Alaimo |
| Published: 09/20/2011 |
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Non-custodial parents will be able to pay just half of their child support obligations with no risk of losing driving, recreational or professional licenses, starting Oct. 1. From Jan. 1 to Aug. 31 of this year, 100,533 parents lost their driver's licenses, 83 lost their professional licenses, and 997 lost their recreational licenses for failure to pay child support, according to the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services. A parent could have more than one license suspended. Those who lost their driver's licenses between Sept. 30, 2010, and Aug. 31, 2011, collectively paid just 19 percent of their child support obligations, according to the department. This change is one of three the General Assembly made this year to child support enforcement. They were enacted as part of the state budget. The Child Support Enforcement Agency can now tell the Bureau of Motor Vehicles to remove a prior suspension for failure to pay from someone's driving record. And, in the recent sentencing reform passed, the law suggests that judges sentence defaulters to probation or community service instead of jail. There are 341 inmates in Ohio prisons for failure to pay child support, according to the Ohio Department of Corrections. Read More. |
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