I Thought That Hell Had Frozen, The Pacific Ocean Dried Up Or

[Bob Ipock]

an unlucky appraiser was caught with a board member's spouse. I was wrong! Several days ago I saw on the ASC daily disciplinary and expiration email where a NC appraiser's license was revoked...REVOKED yes...REVOKED! You see, since 1990 there have only been 20 revocations. The last one was in 2013. Less than 1 per year. So when I see this fellow showing up as a revocation I was curious. What the heck did this guy do? Murder, mayhem, grand theft, failing to put th toilet seat down? It had to be a hugely, bigly, majorly awful thing! Well, again I must say I was wrong. It was a mistake and has been corrected. His revocation came about due to non-payment of child support. The court system failed to notify the board that he had paid up in full and the notice of revocation was sent to the ASC. In the past 3 years there have been over a dozen NC appraisers who knowingly and purposely signed false appraisal certifications and reports. Not a single one got a revocation. These are the appraisers who are cutting corners and making it tough on honest appraisers. Makes me sick.

 

[Flakey]

non-payment of child support

Guess losing your livelihoods gonna help

 

[Tom Woolford]

In this state, non-payment gets your drivers license and all professional licenses canceled as well as your vehicle registrations. Oh yeah, then there is the income garnishment, and if that doesn't work there's three free meals a day and a hard bed for free.

Its a lot cheaper to pay it to begin with.

 

[Terrel L. Shields]

Child support and taxes...Why do you think states REGULATE anyone & why they want to REGULATE every profession from newspaper boy and bartender to scuba instructor and tractor mechanic. It is all about making sure the independently employed pay taxes and child support. It is another effort to squeeze all they can out of the self-émployed. The gov doesn't trust anyone struggling to pay bills.

 

[Meandering]

Child support and taxes...Why do you think states REGULATE anyone & why they want to REGULATE every profession from newspaper boy and bartender to scuba instructor and tractor mechanic.

Because we never really got rid of feudalism?



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[miktay]

Not sure which I hate more. Govt over-regulation, or dead-beat dads.
I think I'll go with....dead-beat dads.
Final answer.

 

[Terrel L. Shields]

The law applied to both DB dads and moms...and sixty year old men and women with no children. I know a fellow who spent the entirety of his state tax refund to get that tax refund after his son turned 18. Even with a letter from his ex that the boy was 18 and T didn't owe ANY child support, he had to drive 60 miles to the state district court with the boy's birth certificate and a sworn statement from his wife and appear before a judge to get it straight...then still wait weeks for the check.

 

[chad hampton]

Seems like a double edged sword - take away someone's livelihood and now there's zero chance a child support payment gets made. Perhaps this guy had been given some warnings and dug his own grave. Or maybe he no longer even works as an appraiser, so they just took it anyway?

 

[Mr Rex]

I was in court one morning for a traffic ticket and the judge comes in sits down and says "Anybody here today on Child Support Non Payment that doesn't have any money is going to jail." . About 20 guys made a bee line to the exit as the rest of the audience roiled with laughter. I was kinda dumb founded. These guys had taken off work (assuming at least some of them had jobs) to come to court to say they didn't have any money. Surely they had a real poor grasp on math in any case.

 

[ChasingRabbits]

Professional license revocations are one of many tools that a child support enforcement officer has access to as a means of trying to obtain compliance with a support order...but it is never the first action taken. When someone misses a payment, the child support records management system (called ACTS in North Carolina) activates a notification for the child support officer to take a compliance action and sets a deadline for completion. The first action is a letter mailed to the address that the office has in the system (and which the person paying is under order to keep updated if they move). The letter is a computer generated one that tells the person how much they owe, how much they are behind and lists out the possible repercussions for non-payment. Most enforcement officers will also give the person a call to see what is going on and try to make arrangements for catching up. The enforcement officer will also typically check employment records to see if an automatic income withholding has changed or stopped - indicating that someone may have lost or changed jobs. If that's the case, the officer will search for new employment records and initiate the paperwork for income withholding from any new jobs. If the child support officer doesn't receive any cooperation or contact from the person, they can then set the matter on the court docket for the judge to make a decision on enforcement action and notice of the hearing and an order to appear in court is sent out for service. Typically, they'll come to court and either make arrangements with the support officer to make payment or let it go in front of the judge and he sets some new terms and deadlines...occasionally someone comes in front of the court who consistently ignores orders and the judge finally holds them in contempt and places them in jail for a bit. It is usually after egregious non-payment and failures to appear before the court that the officer seeks an order from the judge to initiate professional license or driver's license revocation. Both of those are very rare enforcement actions. I've seen them most effectively used to get payment from independent commercial truck drivers that are hard to otherwise locate for service...a revocation on a CDL practically guarantees that they will show for court ASAP.