My ex-husband has a COURT ORDERED judgment to pay child support. He actually has been trying lately. For quite some time, wages were garnished from his check and sent to the Washington State Division of Child Support. I used to check right on the day it usually came to see if payments were made. I made the mistake of leniency.

Going over books some months later, I realize 3-4 payments over the last 2-24 months MISSING. I called my ex. He said his wages for those months were garnished. As it turns out, his employer pocketed my son's money because his business is going under. It took me FOREVER to get my lazy case worker to do her job and look into it, and when she FINALLY got a hold of the guy he was such a pain in the butt. But he does admit fault. She convinced him to agree to one full payment for one month, and monthly $100 payments for the remaining. I DID NOT AGREE TO THAT. The idea of payments is absurd. I would never have allowed that if I was consulted. So guess what happened... he stopped making those payments (of course). He also stopped paying his employees who worked for free for so long they finally quit so he didn't have to pay unemployment. So the Division of Child Support (who I should also complain about) took out liens on his business. A lot of good that's done.

It's been at least 6 months since I got a payment from that jerk that steals from children to fulfill his own selfish needs. He owes my 13 year old son $600 still, and I think it's more like $900 since I found one more missing payment that my lazy case worker can't seem to find herself from the year before. God knows what he owes his employees.

GUESS WHAT... If I hire an attorney I have to close my case. LAME!