California Child Support suspension of drivers license law
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Oct 18th, 2015Someone from Hemet, CA signed.
Oct 15th, 2015Someone from San Jose, CA writes:
California is a very punitive state. The courts will bend over backward to appease the mothers, even if it mean filing and prosecuting false and bogus criminal charges against the father. It is all about jobs and money for the system. We need to outlaw these punitive practices by the courts AND the state. DMV should not be involved in child support. The courts should not hand over children to drug addicted, felons just because they happen to be the mother. The fathers should not have to pay if they are willing to take full custody of the child(ren). End the punitive laws, however the only way that will happen is to END THE DEMOCRAT AKA SOCILIST RULE.Oct 15th, 2015Someone from Tujunga, CA signed.
Oct 14th, 2015Someone from Fresno, CA signed.
Oct 13th, 2015Someone from Redding, CA signed.
Oct 12th, 2015Someone from Redding, CA writes:
This law, written and enforced by people that don't care about the other side of the coin...I seriously wonder HOW in the world something like this could even be considered a "LAW". The direct results they may have wanted in the beginning are NOT the reasons it continues today.... How does taking a persons license to drive, and any business license, simply because he's late on a payment - FAIR to the obligator in the least!? Personally, I've had 2 trucks, one car and my street bike impounded twice! All of which I couldn't pay for immediately so the IMMENSE amount of money owed, immediately, was greater than the vehicles worth.... In my opinion, these vehicles I PAYED FOR, were 'legally' stolen from me! Not to mention this LAW single handedly denied what would of otherwise been a CAREER as a Firefighter for me! (which in turn, WOULD have been more than enough income to pay for obligations AND to actually have a life, not to mention - HELLO, MEANS TO TAKE CARE OF MY DAUGHTER LIKE I have wanted since she was born! What is happening to this world!?REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelOct 12th, 2015Someone from Redding, CA signed.
Oct 10th, 2015Someone from Shelton, WA signed.
Oct 9th, 2015Someone from Los Angeles, CA signed.
Oct 2nd, 2015Someone from Clovis, CA writes:
I just recently graduated with a degree. Hoping that an education will improve my employment prospects. I was wrong. I have been offered 5 different positions that have been pulled as soon as my back ground shows a suspension. I have contacted child support and tried to use reason and logic to get some help. No avail. In todays society the ability to drive needs to be considered a right. For my sake of my family I hope this petition can at least start the conversation. It makes zero sense to restrict a person's ability to earn income until they can afford to.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelSep 30th, 2015Someone from Lancaster, CA signed.
Sep 26th, 2015Someone from Sacramento, CA writes:
If I was granted custody from the start I could have taken good care of my daughter but I lost the battle because I live in Cali and she's in Florida so they tell me that being I didn't show up for court in Florida that the other parent wins. Well now 12 yrs past and due to no DL and tons of arrears later my daughter lives with babys moms dad which dosent need any help finacialy i still stuck with all the bull. I have talked to my lil girl now almost 14yrs old but once on the phone and went to see her for the first time in 2010 but i was told by grandpa that being you have a life in cali and your not staying here for her i dont want her to know your her father so she dosent feel like she is loseing you again . i know one day she will come find her dad God i hope so. I have so much to tell her and i want so bad to be her father while her mother is killing herself on the drugs that she feels is more important then life itself. Our government is so broken that a new system needs to be put in place I hope our next president can do more of what needs to be done for the people remember We The People We are what makes things tick but only if we don't keep getting stuck in these deep holes in our court system that the government refuses the fix because its a "La-git" way to embezzle the people that make them who they are today by voteing them to power to keep things on order not this disorganized chaos you call government. Do you job or we will one day find someone who WILL!!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelSep 26th, 2015Someone from Bakersfield, CA signed.
Sep 23rd, 2015Someone from Pasadena, CA signed.
Sep 22nd, 2015Someone from Green Valley Lake, CA writes:
OK, so perhaps it's alright to suspend a parent's drivers license as punishment for not keeping up with payments or making an arrangement in a child support case BUT the agency suspending the license (usually district attorney in a county) should be required to only suspend it "EXCEPT in the course of employment" meaning a parent can drive to/from/during work. I'd say this is a very reasonable compromise for legislators to enact.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelSep 22nd, 2015Someone from Salinas, CA writes:
Thank You! I will post more comments later. So hears a short one. Child Support Services is COSTING CA.( ei Tax Payers ) Millions Of $$$$$ For suspending Drivers License Of Non Working DADs. And most of the workers are doing it just because they Can. You suspend A Guys License He can't pay his car payment, insurance and Day to Day living. Now he has no car can't look for a job,(a Carpenter needs his truck and tools) and lives in the country. So now he has go on a Food Card and if He more than one to take care of probably will need wellfare for housing. Now he don't talk to His Kids because of SHAME for not being able to pay. Who benefits from this? No One. I have many more stories of How CPS have for the most has DESTROYED my Relationship with my Kids Caused Me to Lose PREVAILING WAGE JOBS Put Me In JAIL AND destroyed my life.THANK YOU FOR READING From A Victim Of Child Support ServicesREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelSep 22nd, 2015Someone from San Diego, CA writes:
My daughter lost her job, got behind on child support. Calif took her drivers license AND her Notary license. She has been homeless now for years. Shame on California.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelSep 20th, 2015Someone from Arlington, WA writes:
After reading almost all the comments I realizes pretty much all of them sound like as if I wrote them but each comment in different words a hundred times over. its weird but I guess not all that suprising to me that my predicament with my DL and CS and even my girlfriend that cheated wich is now why I never see my son that I pay an*****load for, is the same as not just a few but for many many others. we all are human and this is a really common thing going on for alot of us. YA theres fotta be something messed up there man. I hope this gets fixed so all of us can live a normal peaceful life like we did before we had babies. im 29 years old and I had no intention to still be living under the same roof as my dad at almost 30. it sucks and its very depressing dealing with this problem. now i see why people sometimes just off themselves making it easier to understand a person wanting to end there life. this would deffinently be the # one. im a hard working honest tax payer when I have a decent job I dont deserve this. no one does.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelSep 20th, 2015Someone from Fresno, CA writes:
This bill is hurting more men than women. Figure out a different way to collectREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelSep 18th, 2015Someone from Acton, CA signed.
Sep 9th, 2015Someone from Roseville, CA writes:
I 1617th everything that has been said here so far. Coming from Nevada to California, I was pleasantly surprised to see CA actually doing something to help solve the problem by changing the protocol regarding child support suspended license. NV 's solution is to stop explaining your situation too much in court and pay because they did not have enough time in the day, pay a lawyer with money that you do not have to begin with, or spend 20 days in jail while what you do have established in life falls apart to the point where recovery is highly unlikely. OH!! but you have 30 days to perform a miracle.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelSep 5th, 2015Someone from San Jose, CA writes:
Taking driver license away from hardship mom or dad is just adding more difficult to the situation of keeping a job and pay child supportREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelAug 31st, 2015Someone from Clovis, CA writes:
AS well as a suspended drivers license that prevents me from getting a job and working Merced DCSS has done nothing but harass me. I am disgusted by this Department. Over the last few years I have stood here begging and pleading with these people. I have been met with nothing but disrespect, rudeness, and harassment. I have been stuck on welfare due to these guttersnipes. Welfare put me back in school 40 hours a week and had me working, for free, 40 hours a week to gain experience in my field of training to help get me a job. This decision was made based on a work injury that prevented me from returning to my field. This department enforced payments on me while in the program and demanded I have another full-time job on top off all this. I was told, more like demanded, "to drop out of school and drop out of welfare to get a damn job because I had to take care of this child." (Their words, not mine) I responded telling them I also had other children in my home, that are mine, and I also had to take care of them. Once again disrespectfully I was told "Those children don't matter". This is my "Do not push button" because I love my children and NOBODY talks about my children in this way. Upon the birth of my daughter with my current wife I reported the addition to the family to my worker only to here "Well this is a bad time for you to have another child." I have been dragged in and harassed over a matter of 300 dollars in the past which I paid off with financial aid money I needed for school. Upon challenging the arrears gained while in school I was told by this department to fill out a certain court form which upon research did not exist. After months of this department giving me the run around I just filed paperwork to the courts just to get in and voice my concerns. I was met with there disrespectful*****of a representative who interrupts and down talks every client who has to deal with him. He stated he would "keep his hooks in me". He also just kept calling me a liar. At this court hearing come to find out the mother moved out of state without notifying me years prior. The refuse to release jurisdiction, I live an hour and a half away, until they arrears are paid off. They could have notified me she moved out of state when at one point I did pay off the arrears a year and a half ago. There is now a bench warrant out for me due to this department forcing me to report every other month just for a status check, I was still making payments and not flagged as a non-payee. I have no license due to them, no transportation (I ride a bus), no one able to take me, and no money. We are a low income family that barely makes it by as it is. In there letter informing me of the bench warrant they stated every reason I had told them why it was so difficult to report as not being an "excuse". The problem now is I cannot get a job now because every employer that attempts to hire me is met with a bombardment of demands made by this departmentREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelAug 30th, 2015Someone from Azusa, CA writes:
When they suspend my dl and professional looking licenses if im late or cant make a full payment because i have two other childern to take care who live with me has ruined my life and has cost countless jobs that would actually allow to to make my payments without causing me to be short on rent, im a hard working father who is getting not only my life ruined but the lives of my other childrenREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelAug 26th, 2015Someone from Summerfield, FL writes:
While there is a clear societal interest in keeping those who are unfit to drive off the roads, broadly restricting licenses for violations unrelated to an individual?s ability to drive safely may do more harm than good. This is especially true in areas of the country that lack alternative means of transportation. For those individuals, a valid driver license can be a means to survive. Local communities, employers and, employees all experience negative consequences as a result of social non-conformity suspensions, including unemployment, lower wages, fewer employment opportunities and hiring choices, and increased insurance costs.5 People who are able to legally drive are more likely to have stable employment.6REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelAug 21st, 2015Someone from Lake Isabella, CA writes:
I pqy my c.s and if I miss one tiny payment they suspended my******,REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelAug 19th, 2015Someone from Doyle, CA writes:
can't get a job let alone just live my life with out looking over my shoulder if I have to drive and try not doing that !!!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelAug 14th, 2015Someone from Canyon Country, CA signed.
Aug 5th, 2015Someone from San Fernando, CA writes:
I have had my drivers license suspended for the last 15yrs, and even though my x was given physical custody, when she moved to NV. 10yrs ago, and left him with me and I've supported him since then, I haven't been able to get my license back, and my son is now 20yrs old ! I'm almost 53yrs old and haven't had a steady income for 3 decades this is insane!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelAug 4th, 2015Someone from San Jose, CA writes:
There has to be a better alternative than this.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelAug 1st, 2015Someone from El Centro, CA writes:
I applied at Fedex in February 2015 I got offered the job. Passed the background check but when they checked my dmv my license was suspended, I had got no notification and lost the job, thank you child support....I was then on a trip to the beach a few days ago I had got my license reinstated back in March and me and the driver got pulled over. They ran checks on both of us and my license was once again suspended with no notice, but this time they took my license and my only form of ID at request of the dmv. So I called child support and they told me it was an error and they would send an abstract, so now I have no ID and I have to pay to get another card and a reissuance fee. Both times they were garnishing me so its not like I wasn't payingREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJul 27th, 2015Someone from Ukiah, CA writes:
I could go on and on what it has done to me .my life and children s life.. This system is so bad it has taken jobs away from millions of taxpaying parents with outstanding integrity and family values into welfare,disability despair,,financial ruin. Food stamps the list goes on The impacts are huge 100 millions of dollars . I firmly feel its to organize a class action lawsuit ,begin extensive lobbying in Sac. Reform.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJul 26th, 2015Someone from Arroyo Grande, CA signed.
Jul 25th, 2015Someone from Laguna Hills, CA signed.
Jul 24th, 2015Someone from Olivehurst, CA signed.
Jul 23rd, 2015Someone from Crestline, CA writes:
Taking the drivers' license is hindering people from getting or keeping their jobs so they can pay their child support. It just doesn't make sense to take the license, how do you get to work now? No job, No child supportREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJul 20th, 2015Someone from Spring Valley, CA writes:
They came 15 yrs ago to my life . The cps worker said let us visit your house from time to time .My xwife said no and 1 hour later they came and took my lil girl. They never mentioned that if we denie them visits that they would come and take my girls. my oldest just graduated with honors and now needs money to go to college that I'm trying to provide but is really hard with no license. My case was based on marijuana and now its legal in California so all these 12 plus years that they impounded my cars and lost jobs was for nothing . Im not a deadbeat father. I am a caring daddy that makes sure his girls are smart and they know there daddy is trying but can't help because cps has him on a leash and can put.him in jail for money that is just made up. I have provided as much as I can to my girls and you can ask all 3 of them . I just want my license back and a reason able payment of 100 dollars a month which I think is fair for money that they just pulled out of the sky.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJul 20th, 2015Someone from Carson, CA writes:
DL suspended so with Professional License...need to be reformedREPORT COMMENTS
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