child support lawyer

[sandnsea]

I need Supreme Court rulings that uphold child support as legal at the federal level. For the states to collect. Not a Constitutional violation. Something like that, anything.

Please, please don't turn this into a child support thread. Start another one if you must, kay? Can't take it today. :-)

[TheWizardOfMudd]

1. Confusing

[sandnsea]

2. If you had my week...

you'd be confusing too!!! :-(

I just need to know if the legality of states collecting and creating child support at the state level, or to comply with federal regs, has been decided at the U.S. Supreme Court level. I'm in an argument with somebody. Very incredibly long and angry story.

[TheWizardOfMudd]

3. Look

The power of states to order and collect child support has never been successfully challenged on a Federal level, unless a state has no personal jurisdiction over the putative payee.

The only other Federal involvement has been to aid states and custodial parents in collecting child support.

If your friend asserts otherwise, ask your friend for the name and citation to the United States Supreme Court that disputes you. If your friend cannot come up with that, YOU WIN! :)

[sandnsea]

4. Bless your little soul

The person, good god definitely NOT a friend, is saying nobody has ever challenged child support laws at a federal level. I've got a bunch of cases in Find Law, way too many for me to go through or even understand if I did! But what I can see, if it was against civil rights, interfering with parenting, or a States' rights only issue, the Supreme Court had ample opportunity to say so.

So I'll just make a link to the Find Law search and say that first line you said. Will that do it?

This is an online thing and I hardly ever get into this stupid stuff online, but this is different. I'm under an orchestrated attack and it's really ticking me off!

[TheWizardOfMudd]

5. You're in good shape. Those people arguing that stuff are ignorant.

Good job!

[sandnsea]

6. Thank You!!

I posted it. Now I'm going to get some sleep. :hi:

[MissMillie]

7. Why wouldn't it be legal at the state level?

Marriages and divorces take place at the state level, so certainly if child support is customarily part of a divorce agreement, why wouldn't it be ordered and collected at the state level?