Sumter County Man Arrested for Nonpayment of Child Support
In February 2026, a 37-year-old man from Sumter County was driving on State Road 44 in The Villages when a police officer looked up his license plate and found out that his license was expired. This led the officer to pull the driver over for driving with a suspended license. His license had been suspended six months earlier, and the reason was nonpayment of child support. Going to jail simply for nonpayment of child support is legally possible, but it is rare for the court to sentence someone to jail simply for falling behind on child support payments. If this incident leads to the defendant going to jail, it will be because of driving with a suspended license, especially because he has been pulled over for driving with a suspended license several times over the past 15 years. Many dominos must fall between being late on a child support payment and a nightmarish scenario like this. Even though going to jail because of unpaid child support is rare, having child support debt follow you around for years and cause financial hardship is not. The sooner you speak up about your inability to pay the child support that the court ordered you to pay, contact a Boca Raton child support lawyer.
If You Can’t Pay Child Support, Go to Court to Find Practical Solutions
Child support orders are always modifiable. The courts calculate child support obligations according to a statewide formula, but the numbers representing the factors in the formula are, by nature, subject to change. The factors the court considers are the children’s expenses, each parent’s income, each parent’s expenses unrelated to the children, and the number of overnights of parenting time each parent has per year. These factors can change; for example, the children’s expenses decrease when the children enter kindergarten and begin attending public school, instead of requiring full-day daycare. Likewise, when a child reaches adulthood, he or she no longer needs child support, so you can and should ask the court to adjust the child support amount so you are only paying for the children who are still minors.
In practice, parents’ incomes change more often than child support orders get modified. It would be a waste of time and money to go to court and modify your child support order every time you or your ex-spouse gets a raise at work. Most modification requests come when the parent who pays child support suffers a reduction in income because of a job loss or because the parent is self-employed and his or her business has been generating less income than it did when the court issued the child support order.
Contact Schwartz | White About Modifying Your Child Support Obligations
A South Florida family law attorney can help you modify your child support order if you have fallen behind on child support payments or are in danger of falling behind. Contact Schwartz | White in Boca Raton, Florida about your case.
Source:
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