PROSECUTOR’S SEMINAR TRAINING PAYS OFF FOR TWO
GREENE COUNTY CHILDREN
Mom and Dad
are the divorced parents of two children; a boy and
girl.
Dad was
ordered to pay $559.18 per month, per child, for
current child support, and $249.56 per month toward
arrearages. In 2008, payments stopped.
The Child
Support Enforcement Agency referred this case to the
Greene County Prosecutor’s Office for enforcement.
The case was
reviewed by Assistant Prosecutor Chris Murray, Chief
of the Prosecutor’s Child Support Enforcement
Division.
In October of
2008, a Motion for Contempt was filed. The Court
set this case for hearing January of 2009. The
Court continued the hearing until February since Dad
was in jail on an unrelated matter. In February,
Dad showed for the hearing and requested a Public
Defender. As a result, the Court continued the case
until April of 2009.
Attendance at
a seminar by Assistant Prosecutor Murray in June of
2007 paid off several years later in relation to
this case. The seminar dealt with qualified
domestic relations orders and discussed collecting
child support from pension plans. Furthermore,
Murray learned that if the child was the alternate
payee of any withdrawal from a pension plan, the
withdrawal would be taxable to the obligor.
Using the
information learned at the seminar, in April 2009
Murray reviewed the parties' divorce decree to find
out the names of the retirement accounts Dad had.
After searching the internet and obtaining addresses
for the various retirement accounts, he issued
production subpoenas to the retirement accounts
requesting information about current balances and
distribution policies.
