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[bluebeard]

In Tennessee, maybe in other states, they'll take your driver's license away if you get behind in child support payments.

So... say you pay child support. Sometimes happens and you lose your job. You get behind. They take your license away, making it more difficult to get a job. You get further behind... ad nauseum.

Is that not fucking stupid or what? I realize that it's intended to punish people who simply didn't pay as opposed to couldn't, but it doesn't seem very well thought out.

Comments

[fritterfae.livejournal.com]

Doesn't license revocation usually come with an "except for work" stipulation?

[dom-ino.livejournal.com]

there's Suspended, Restricted and Revoked. Suspended means you can pay to get it back, Restricted means you can drive to work or school or groceries or whatever you've got worked out witht he state, Revoked means byebye. The guy that came in the office earlier got suspended.