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Home Tips > Tips By Category > Tips you can implement daily Dead beat Parents - Non-custodial parents who avoid their child support obligations are often termed dead-beat parents.
This prejudicial characterization of parents ignores the fact that many non-custodial parents are simply unable to pay at the rates they have been assessed.
The US Department of Health and Human Services estimates that 68% of child support cases had arrears owed. Many of these arrearage cases are due to administrative practices such as imputing income to parents where it does not exist and issuing default orders of support.
Some non-custodial parents claim their payments are too high.
According to one study 38% of Illinois non-custodial parents not paying child-support said they lacked the money to pay.
Twenty-three percent used non-payment to protest a lack of visitation rights.
Fourteen percent complained of no accountability over the spending of their child support money, while 13% said they didn't want their child(ren) and 12% denied parentage.
Additionally, some non-custodial parents who have been subject to acrimonious divorces often see these payments as unfair and excessive.
Some custodial parents who have been victimized in abusive relationships view the avoidance of child support payments as another means of their spouses perpetuating the abuse.
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