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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.

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[signe.livejournal.com]

You usually have to be a significant amount of time behind before they start adding penalties like that. I wish more states would do it. It's incentive.

For instance, our friend's baby-daddy would never get his license. He's paid about $25 in child support in 8 years.