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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I had my ex’s garnished for years and one day he asked me if we can do it offline as when he was changing jobs, setting it back up was a hassle.  We’ve been offline about 6 years with no issues.  He knows I’ll go through the state if needed.  Luckily he’s afraid of the state coming after him so he pays on time and never skipped.  [/quote]

I'm glad he's paying and there has been no issue, but you need to get the order changed to "direct pay". Why? Because if you don't nothing he gives you is seen by the state and therefore the state has him listed as "in arrears". You may think that you'll never go after it so it doesn't matter, but the state will pull it from his social security checks.

Unless you changed the order 6 years ago, the state likely has him listed as in arrears by 6 years. [/quote]

This is correct.  My husband paid directly and had the cashed checks as proof and his ex took him to court saying he wasn't paying child support when he was paid in full and actually by the courts calculation had a huge overage as he shouldn't not have been paying what he was per the court order (alimony was supposed to stop as payment for the two oldest kids).  She then tried to say it was a gift so he still owed it.  It was a mess.  He couldn't get back the overage but we could easily prove he paid.  If it was an order through garnishment then if it is not through garnishment he will still owe the money to the child support office.  His ex after that did a garnishment and would call screaming when the check was not on time (husband always sent it early to make sure it go there) and she wanted to change it back to direct pay which would have been another court hearing and we said no, garnishment so there was no more arguments nor did she need to have contact with us over money anymore.  She wanted it so she could deal with the outcome of it.[/quote]

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