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Jun 22, 2007, 12:45 pm (13 comments)
Law already on the books, now legislature insists on its enforcement
New Jersey moved closer Thursday to collecting its due from lottery winners who owe the state money.
A measure approved unanimously by the Assembly would require lottery officials to deduct outstanding debt before awarding prize money.
The proposal would affect anyone who wins more than $600 and owes the state money.
State officials estimate that the new requirement would raise $800,000 to $1 million a year.
The proposal arose after state auditors last year found the Division of the State Lottery paid out $900,000 in 2005 that should have been withheld for debts. At the time, state Auditor Richard Fair recommended the division seek legislation to strengthen its authority to withhold prize money.
The lottery already checks to see if winners defaulted on students loans or owe child support.
The Senate passed the measure unanimously in March. It now heads to the governor's desk for his signature.
AP
"The lottery already checks to see if winners defaulted on students loans or owe child support."
Why are they checking and then doing nothing about it? In FL they always check by running your social security number to see if winners have outstanding debts. I hear men complain all the time about sending child support. They didn't seem to mind when they were making the babies.
I'm all for anything that makes people pay their arrearages on child support. Currently, I am owed well over 35,000 myself.
(risking some vicious responses) If people treated marriage and family more seriously there wouldn't be need to go after (always the men) for child supprt. People rush into it and then get bored with each other or realize they weren't really ready. It's not right if a couple produce children and then either parent runs off with another "more sexy" person and then has the nerve to demand support (I don't know if that's what really happens). The father doesn't get to see the kids but he has to send 1/2 his salary. The support should only go to the person if they and their children were left behind or if there was real abuse going on. In those cases I agree with it. But it scares me from ever having children.
I feel that child support is based upon either parent's salary. The key is who the children actually live with. I know in TN (Montgomery County) the women pay just like the men. They have to get medical insurance and pay money if the children live with the father. In some of the more "out of the way" counties, it is not as equal. A woman had 2 kids but the court only made her pay $25.00 per week in child support. Lottery winners should have to pay up just like everyone else. They are supposed to have some sort of scale that determines what each parent is responsible for. Sometimes, depending on that scale (and the person's past payment record), they will take 50% of the salary but normally it is lesser but it is always more than 25%. In Ky when you win over $600 they will get you.
As I understand here in WI (never...yet <G> having to go through it...THe lottery checks for unpaid child support, also outstanding wants and warrants, and even unpaid parking tickets. So when you cash any winner over $599 you actually have to wait to get your money the following day, since it takes them a day to do the background check on you.
Sounds proper to me.
It isn't always the men. We had a local news team here chasing down people who are way behind on child support, and they found that there were a number of women who were delinquent into five-figures. This is the 21st century. That means the male doesn't always make more income than the female.
bout time
there are women who owe and don't pay child support as well. They also complain as well.
Child support is a strange word when it comes to the legal profession because it realy means woman-support to the man.....the child doesn't even have to live with the mother ;I know of a case in erie,penna. where the father had the son 14 living with him for over 6months and the mother was strung out on crack .....the support office on its own went the Shriefs 5 strong in the middle of the night guns drawn and put the father in jail for over a week untill his new wife forked over 1500 her whole weekly check and savings to get him out ...not one dime returned for rasing the child for the mother she spent it on drugs ..In ny state they will take all of your winnings if you o00owo child support
in Maryland if you owe money to the state and go to lottery HQ to collect on a win they will take what you owe. If you owe more than you won you just might be locked up.
In my mind it's simple: If you owe the State the money then they should be allowed to collect it. Now if you have a legitimate reason why you think you shouldn't have to pay then go to court...afterall you will have the money to fight it now. But I don't have a problem with the State collecting child support or any other money owed. I mean seriously, the first thing I would do with the money anyway when I get it would be for me to pay off any outstanding debts or money owed to anyone. Whether it be the State or a business or a friend.
that realy is bad if you win you should get your money the same day just like when you bought your ticket the lottery never had to wait untill you paid them the next day ;
money owed is worse they just tell you thanks and take all of it from you if you win 2,500 a pick 4 straight .50 cent
in New yORK you may not even get a dime back I feel that its wrong to take it all..... ..just when you win the state makes you a losser ;