SpiralStairs wrote:
Joe Orr Road Rod wrote:
SpiralStairs wrote:
Beardown wrote:
So how does this work? If he actually does serve a prison sentence, is he then off the hook for paying her once he's released?
What he owes is not going away. Typically a judge will set a purge amount and if he pays it (some smaller percentage of what's owed) he'll get out of jail. If he does he'll also have to continue to make payments on the rest of what he owes, if he doesn't he goes back to jail.
This doesn't really seem like a case where a body attachment would be ordered in Illinois. This goof is begging for incarceration. You know we don't have debtor's prisons in the U.S. The point of putting a child support deadbeat in Cook County jail is because somehow that money the guy "doesn't have" usually magically appears after at night or two at 26th and Cal.
If he wants to go to jail he can go to jail. When he wants out he can cough up some money.
Yeah, but you know how that works. There aren't any judges, at least in the Cook County Domestic Relations Division, that are going to leave a guy in jail for more than a week, if that. I don't know anything about the jurisdiction he's in, but in Chicago, nobody stays in County Jail if there is any way to come up with the cash.
to be locked up. If he's stupid enough to think that will get him out of paying what he owes I say let him be stupid.