Divorce Support Forums: Disabled father kids getting checks from his SSDI

Your post is hard to understand. If they're about to put you in jail it sounds like there is a child support order that you ahve not been paying. If not then this is a problem you should have tried to figure out long ago. Why did you not try to figure it out before now? Are you spending time with the kids and how many times have you had them contact you for back payments before it got to this point to where you're about to go to jail?

NOW... if you had set it up properly from the start, the amount that you were ordered to pay should have been reduced by the amount that is paid on your behalf by Social Security. I know someone whose social security payments to the kids is higher than the amount he is supposed to pay to the kids so it totally wipes out his debt in child support. Now if he finds a job he can do with his disability and goes off SSDI, then he'll be responsible for paying.

I am not sure but I'd think you could collect the history of payments by SSDI and simply present this to the judge to stave off the wolves... but if you're at the point where they're about to ptu you in jail, I have to wonder why you've not done this yet?!!! Have you been ignoring it or were they not able to find you? (not likely if you were getting SSDI checks for yourself)... what's up that you let it go thier far without getting a lawyer to help you out? Becasue if you are so scattered in handlign your buiness (some disabilities are complicated by the fact that you get scattered... I understand, but IF that's the issue, you needed to find someone to help straighten it out before JAIl was a possibility!) IF you are so scattered that you can't handle your business, you really need someone to help you out. and if you say you can't afford a lawyer, understand that it's a choice... lawyer or jail.

Get one... explain the situation and see if they can resolve it after the fact. The courts are notorious for not wanting to go after the fact and change what they say is an arrearage... the responsibility fo the guy who is being hounded for arrears is to SAY SOMETHING before 10,000 worth piles up! To BE THERE and SHOW UP and be FINDABLE. TO SAY SOMETHING before the handcuffs are practically on and you're about to be dragged to jail!

From what you say, this SHOULD have been fix-able, easily, a long time ago. But NOW? I don't know. You may have a chance but if you're so scattered that you couldn't fix it before now, you CERTAINLY need a lawyer. GET ONE!