PARENT'S RIGHTS NOW!

In Going to Jail for Thirty-Six Bucks Blogger Earl Capps makes it very clear that he is not happy with the Family Court Child Support Collection system in Dorchester County South Carolina.

We sympathize with Mr. Capps and agree that we are in serious need of Family Court Reform.* However, we do not think that Clerk of Court Cheryl Graham is the culprit in this case; she has very little power in the area of Child Support Enforcement. Basically speaking, these Enforcement Orders are spit out by a computer often after the Obligee calls to complain. Remember, only about half the non-custodial parents are paying any child support and only about half of those who are paying are paying the full amount ordered. Therefore, for everyone complaining about the Family Court being overly aggressive in its enforcement duties, there are three or four people complaining about it being too lax.

*See, for example, our posts at http://parentsrights.blogspot.com/2007/07/south-carolina-child-non-support.html, http://parentsrights.blogspot.com/2006/12/south-carolina-dss-chief-resigns-from.html, http://parentsrights.blogspot.com/2005/05/some-suggestions-for-reform-we-have_09.html, http://parentsrights.blogspot.com/2007/04/aclu-of-sc-urges-sc-supreme-court-to.html, http://parentsrights.blogspot.com/2007/06/s_06.html, and http://parentsrights.blogspot.com/2007/03/child-support-and-debtors-prison-from.html.