> I'm a retiree, and live in Michigan.
> I'd really like to get some help from any Mi folks here if there are
> any, but other advise will be appriecated.
>
> My step son is (about) 50k in the bucket on his child support. With
> the 'new' dead beat Dad laws here, 'they' are making life miserable
> for this s/s of mine.
>
> He lost the good auto plant job he had right after his divorce, and
> now makes about a third of what he made before. He just got a raise
> ($1 per hr.) and he's been jumped from the imposible to pay $1000 a
> month, to a ridiculous $1800 a month.
>
> They seem to be hell bent on putting this young man in jail. He has
> little, or nothing left after all deducts are taken from his pay. He's
> been put on a kind of 'parole', and has to report to a probation
> officer, as if he was a criminal. He is not, but the're treating him
> like one.
>
> He has contemplaed just 'turning himself over' to the friend of the
> court people for arrest and jail, because he cannot live on nothing,
> and they don't seem to care about what the facts in his case really
> are.
>
> Are there any of you that have faced this kinda thing?
>
> nm
Post this, also, at alt.child-support. I believe there are a few
people in there from Michigan and they generally are quite knowledgable
about current CS law, etc.