TimeofFait
Can I put a lien on my exhusband's assets and property because he owes me over $22,000 in child support arrearages? My divorce decree states that he was supposed to pay weekly child support payments, paid directly to the courts. However, he has not paid for many years.
Answer
Yes you can.
Additonal Info:
A child support lien, once filed, is just like a mortgage on a house. If the house owner falls behind in his payments, the mortgage company can foreclose on the house. By filing a child support lien, you are in effect becoming a mortgage company except that you can foreclose on almost anything the obligor owns except his homestead.
If you are owed child support, you can file a child support lien. In fact, if your support is overdue, you already have a child support lien. All you have to do is "perfect" it. To perfect a child support lien, you must file a Notice of Child Support Lien. The Notice must contain certain information and be sworn to under oath.
Once you have prepared your Notice, you can file it wherever you think you have the best chance of executing it, or foreclosing on it. This could be where the obligor lives, where the obligor owns property, or where the court that issued the child support order sits. You can also file the Notice in a pending lawsuit where you think the obligor might get some money or with any other person or organization that you think may have something that belongs to the obligor. You can file more than one place, and filing a child support lien does not keep you from trying to collect the child support in other ways at the same time.
Once the lien is filed, it "attaches," or becomes a charge against, all nonexempt property owned by the obligor. "Property" means both land and things, like cars, boats, bank accounts, computers, and so forth. "Exempt property" is property that no one can force the obligor to sell to pay his debts. "Nonexempt property," on the other hand, means any property that can be sold to satisfy debts. As a practical matter, you can execute your child support lien on all the property the obligor has except his homestead.
If you have a child support lien against an obligor, he cannot sell his property without paying off the lien unless his purchaser is a real dummy. This is because at any time, you can foreclose on the lien, even if someone else has bought the property in the meantime.
Yes you can.
Additonal Info:
A child support lien, once filed, is just like a mortgage on a house. If the house owner falls behind in his payments, the mortgage company can foreclose on the house. By filing a child support lien, you are in effect becoming a mortgage company except that you can foreclose on almost anything the obligor owns except his homestead.
If you are owed child support, you can file a child support lien. In fact, if your support is overdue, you already have a child support lien. All you have to do is "perfect" it. To perfect a child support lien, you must file a Notice of Child Support Lien. The Notice must contain certain information and be sworn to under oath.
Once you have prepared your Notice, you can file it wherever you think you have the best chance of executing it, or foreclosing on it. This could be where the obligor lives, where the obligor owns property, or where the court that issued the child support order sits. You can also file the Notice in a pending lawsuit where you think the obligor might get some money or with any other person or organization that you think may have something that belongs to the obligor. You can file more than one place, and filing a child support lien does not keep you from trying to collect the child support in other ways at the same time.
Once the lien is filed, it "attaches," or becomes a charge against, all nonexempt property owned by the obligor. "Property" means both land and things, like cars, boats, bank accounts, computers, and so forth. "Exempt property" is property that no one can force the obligor to sell to pay his debts. "Nonexempt property," on the other hand, means any property that can be sold to satisfy debts. As a practical matter, you can execute your child support lien on all the property the obligor has except his homestead.
If you have a child support lien against an obligor, he cannot sell his property without paying off the lien unless his purchaser is a real dummy. This is because at any time, you can foreclose on the lien, even if someone else has bought the property in the meantime.
Should children have tvs/computers in their rooms?
Geana
If so, why do you think its ok?
If not, why don't you?
I personally think there should be a PC for everyone and for schoolwork, a laptop for the parents, and one main tv for the household, maybe two if there is a basement with an entertainment area, or something like that.
I feel like parents are relying way too much on telivision and electronics to teach their kids or as "temporary babysitters",
I would not let me kid have a tv in their room until they were at least 13, bought it and payed for cable by themselves. Same for cell phones, unless a track phone just to be able to call them if there were an emergancy with either of us. What do you guys think?
Well yeah that is good that you have good grades. But an iPhone for anybody under the age of 16 seems crazy to me... But i wont argue with your parents decisions.
What makes me think is why would parents KNOW that they'd rather have their kids reading books and going on trips, but give them these things anyways...? Am i being paranoid about this whole thing?
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I don't have a TV in my own room, nor do I have a computer in my room, my kids don't need one in theirs. I have a niece who is reliant on a TV being on or she can't sleep. Like all night long. She has a lot of issues that studies say is because of the TV never turning off, but she won't even consider turning it off, it's how she is and she sees nothing wrong with that. But your brain has to turn off. Also, I don't see how a parent can monitor what a child is watching if it's behind a closed door. Same with game systems and things like that. My daughter is 4 and goes on youtube while I'm in the room (she loves Signing Time and there's quite a few videos of Signing Time on there.) I'm in the room, I can make sure she's not clicking on something that would be inappropriate for her age. It simply makes sense, especially at their ages.
As they get older, I don't see a point to anything except a stereo in their room because everything else encourages so much isolation. I remember my sister threw fits if anyone came into the family room while she watched a movie, but it was one of the only times she had to tolerate other people around her (the rest of the time she locked herself in her room and listened to music and read.) If she had a TV in her room and especially a video game or video player then she would have never come out. And again, how can you monitor what they're watching and how much they're watching/playing? There's no encouragement to work with others in the family either. Especially as they become older teens, there's no way I'd let them get cable in their room.
And computers? possibly... I might allow a computer that is not connected to the Internet in their room but no games, just for homework. I've tried to write papers with my dad's TV blasting 2 inches away from it (the computer was behind the TV... ugh.) It's not easy. But Internet connection will only be on reserved computers. I see the day when all computers are laptops, so basically something to block the net while in their room, and at night everything all in the laptop area charging or whatever. And of course, they're my computers, not the kids, so we can look at what's on them at any time. But I can see the day when my kids are teens that they will have to have a laptop for school and it will have to be the same laptop all year long, so we'll probably let them have their 'own' so to speak when that day comes.
As far as cells go... when I was a kid it was land-lines only and my parents never let us have our own phone in our room, especially our own number. I don't think kids and teens need their own phone. I believe they need access to something though, so to me, it looks like this. We will buy cell phones and my kids will have access to them as needed, but it's still MY phone, and I can look and monitor and lock it up at night (I'm not a fan of sleep-texting and the problems that causes, let alone someone who talks on the phone or texts for hours. I hate how teens today can't seem to look you in the eye because they're texting while talking.) Once my kids are 14 or so, if they have been trustworthy up to then, they will have a phone 'assigned' to them. It's still mine, but they will have their own 'number' so their friends can call them and not get anyone else. By 16 or so, if they have been trustworthy, then I'll basically give them a phone, but still reserve right to look if I feel like there's something going on against the rules. If they break rules, then we'll go back to the family phone.
Paranoid? I don't know. What I do know is I've been administrators on sites and I've seen kids as young as 10-12 giving out way too much info (and they were warned by their parents) and having cyber-sex with college aged people, or making arrangements to do more. I think the lackadaisical attitude today of most parents are the parents who weren't on the net in the 90's and have no clue what's out there (for the record, I'm 35, so most of my generation is who I'm talking about with teens right now.) I think we'll see more sane rules as the next generation become parents, they'll utilize technology to give safe limits, but they'll know how easy a bunch of things are to do and won't take it lightly. I knew a 14 year old who was going to buy a ticket for a college aged girl to come visit him while his parents were out of town to have sex... turned out she was a he (and a friend of mine) and told him that... he dropped offline about then. He lucked out my friend wasn't some pervert who could have come there, raped, or just tied him up and robbed the house blind.
I don't have a TV in my own room, nor do I have a computer in my room, my kids don't need one in theirs. I have a niece who is reliant on a TV being on or she can't sleep. Like all night long. She has a lot of issues that studies say is because of the TV never turning off, but she won't even consider turning it off, it's how she is and she sees nothing wrong with that. But your brain has to turn off. Also, I don't see how a parent can monitor what a child is watching if it's behind a closed door. Same with game systems and things like that. My daughter is 4 and goes on youtube while I'm in the room (she loves Signing Time and there's quite a few videos of Signing Time on there.) I'm in the room, I can make sure she's not clicking on something that would be inappropriate for her age. It simply makes sense, especially at their ages.
As they get older, I don't see a point to anything except a stereo in their room because everything else encourages so much isolation. I remember my sister threw fits if anyone came into the family room while she watched a movie, but it was one of the only times she had to tolerate other people around her (the rest of the time she locked herself in her room and listened to music and read.) If she had a TV in her room and especially a video game or video player then she would have never come out. And again, how can you monitor what they're watching and how much they're watching/playing? There's no encouragement to work with others in the family either. Especially as they become older teens, there's no way I'd let them get cable in their room.
And computers? possibly... I might allow a computer that is not connected to the Internet in their room but no games, just for homework. I've tried to write papers with my dad's TV blasting 2 inches away from it (the computer was behind the TV... ugh.) It's not easy. But Internet connection will only be on reserved computers. I see the day when all computers are laptops, so basically something to block the net while in their room, and at night everything all in the laptop area charging or whatever. And of course, they're my computers, not the kids, so we can look at what's on them at any time. But I can see the day when my kids are teens that they will have to have a laptop for school and it will have to be the same laptop all year long, so we'll probably let them have their 'own' so to speak when that day comes.
As far as cells go... when I was a kid it was land-lines only and my parents never let us have our own phone in our room, especially our own number. I don't think kids and teens need their own phone. I believe they need access to something though, so to me, it looks like this. We will buy cell phones and my kids will have access to them as needed, but it's still MY phone, and I can look and monitor and lock it up at night (I'm not a fan of sleep-texting and the problems that causes, let alone someone who talks on the phone or texts for hours. I hate how teens today can't seem to look you in the eye because they're texting while talking.) Once my kids are 14 or so, if they have been trustworthy up to then, they will have a phone 'assigned' to them. It's still mine, but they will have their own 'number' so their friends can call them and not get anyone else. By 16 or so, if they have been trustworthy, then I'll basically give them a phone, but still reserve right to look if I feel like there's something going on against the rules. If they break rules, then we'll go back to the family phone.
Paranoid? I don't know. What I do know is I've been administrators on sites and I've seen kids as young as 10-12 giving out way too much info (and they were warned by their parents) and having cyber-sex with college aged people, or making arrangements to do more. I think the lackadaisical attitude today of most parents are the parents who weren't on the net in the 90's and have no clue what's out there (for the record, I'm 35, so most of my generation is who I'm talking about with teens right now.) I think we'll see more sane rules as the next generation become parents, they'll utilize technology to give safe limits, but they'll know how easy a bunch of things are to do and won't take it lightly. I knew a 14 year old who was going to buy a ticket for a college aged girl to come visit him while his parents were out of town to have sex... turned out she was a he (and a friend of mine) and told him that... he dropped offline about then. He lucked out my friend wasn't some pervert who could have come there, raped, or just tied him up and robbed the house blind.
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