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What is the statue of limitations to file & collect child support payments?
I have a birth farther that I have not seen and / or heard from for approx. forty three years, my mother & birth farther separated in 1965 & divorced in 1989. My mother have never received child support payments from our birth father.What will be the procedure(s) to file a court order to collect unpaid child support payments.My mother filed for child support payments in 1965 against birth farther yet he was not ever found @ same residence as they (mother & birth father) separated.Thank you for your input on this matter of importance.
I think it’s five years after the child turns 18…depends on the state…you could ask a lawyer though…but I think it’s too late…
You are far too late.Even under the deadbeat dad laws of today the statute ran out when the youngest turned 18.Your mother should have taken him to court as soon as he left in 1965.The fact that she waited 33 to get a divorce was a mistake on her part.But even if the kids were still minors in 1989 the statute of limitations would be up now because the children would be in their 20’s or older.There would have to have been a court order of payment of child support in place with no way to enforce it for you to be able to get anything now.I am sorry your birth father was so irresponsible to his family.
If they didn’t divorce until 89 you would’ve been 22-23 years old. I’m pretty sure one can’t file for child support from their current husband. She would’ve had to divorce him before there would’ve been a child support order issued. Nonetheless, my advice would be to just let it go. This is a person that obviously has issues. I would want to keep them out of my life for good. It’s not gonna be worth the headache and hassle and bringing up bad memories. He probably would just continue not to pay it. At his age, I can’t see the courts throwing him in jail over it either, as they don’t do it to deadbeat dads who are much younger.
I was under the impression that yes it’s far too late for the mother, but I thought a child can sue their father for lack of support once they are of age, because some children have mothers who don’t even pursue it, but I don’t know if theirs a statue of limitations on that, call one of those child support enforcement legal groups, they are like a bunch of ambulance chasers they’ll know.It may vary by state also