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Sage, U.S. Court of Appeals (2nd Cir., 1996), the court upheld the constitutionality of a law allowing federal fines and up to two years imprisonment for a person willfully failing to pay more than $5,000 in child support over a year or more when said child resides in a different state from that of the non-custodial parent.
Conversely, if the child's expenses increase, the obligee may ask the court to increase payments to cover the new costs [57] Although both parents have the right to petition the court for a support order adjustment, modifications are not automatic, and a judge may decide not to alter the amount of support after hearing the facts of the case.
Cases are known in which one party won the case, but lost more than the monetary worth in court costs. Court costs may be awarded to one or both parties in a lawsuit, or they may be waived. [1] In the United Kingdom, Australia and Canada, the losing side is usually ordered to pay the winning side's costs. This acts as a significant disincentive ...
California courts officials found the fines and fees handed down to Californians without the ability to pay them had created a “debtor’s prison,” in one court official’s words, trapping ...
Tax refunds are intercepted with the purpose of forcing citizens to comply to their required debts. If one has student loan payments, child support payments, or worker's compensation payments that they have not fulfilled, then their refund will be intercepted and put towards the payments of those obligations. [7]
(The Center Square) – Illinois taxpayers are off the hook for Michael Madigan’s future pension payments, now that the former Illinois House speaker has been convicted of corruption. Madigan, a ...
THE COURT: Good morning, everybody. We had a nice slow day yesterday, real slow. We are still waiting for one of the jurors, so I thought that I would like to go over now the evidentiary procedure -- is Dr. Kessler testifying today? MR. KLINE: Yes. THE COURT: I would like to go over the evidentiary procedure and any evidentiary
PACER (acronym for Public Access to Court Electronic Records) is an electronic public access service for United States federal court documents. It allows authorized users to obtain case and docket information from the United States district courts, United States courts of appeals, and United States bankruptcy courts.