Rep. Cheatham’s HB 1026 would prohibit a court from considering a reduction or elimination of a parent’s income due to the parent’s incarceration when establishing or modifying a child support order.
I sympathize with this one — why should a parent benefit and a child suffer because the parent got themselves arrested? But, it seems to me, you’re setting the system up for failure if you’re requiring courts to set child support levels based on what amounts to fiction.
This becomes further convoluted if the parent is in jail for failing to pay child support. With unemployment levels being where they are, I can’t imagine this situation is going to improve any time soon.