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Net tightens on child support evaders
The Child Support Agency and the Department of Immigration and Citizenship have boosted efforts to crack down on overseas travel of separated parents who are avoiding their child support responsibilities.
The Minister for Human Services, Senator Joe Ludwig, said today that the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding between the two agencies strengthened the CSA’s Departure Prohibition Order (DPO) program.
‘The CSA, with the support of DIAC, has the power to issue international travel bans if a parent persistently fails to meet child support obligations,’ Senator Ludwig said.
‘When a DPO is issued, the affected parent cannot leave Australia until they make satisfactory arrangements to pay their child support debt.’
The Minister for Immigration and Citizenship, Senator Chris Evans, said the agreement allows CSA to gain access to DIAC’s movement database to identify the overseas travel patterns of parents who have significant child support debts.
‘This new access complements the data-matching arrangements between the two agencies which have been in place for some time now,’ Senator Evans said.
‘It’s pleasing to be able to further assist the CSA with this important program, as the end result is making sure child support payments get to the children who need them.’
Currently the CSA has 1103 DPOs in place across Australia.
Senator Ludwig said the message to separated parents who owe child support was clear.
‘If you want to travel overseas then you need to sort out your overdue child support payments,’ Senator Ludwig said.
‘During 2007-08, the CSA issued 924 DPOs and as a result collected about $5.7 million in outstanding child support.’
Senator Ludwig called on people who knew of upcoming travel plans of child support defaulters to contact the CSA through the Australian Government Services Fraud Tip-off Line, 13 15 24 so a DPO could be considered.
‘The CSA needs to know the likely date of travel and the city and means of departure so that the process can go more smoothly and children can receive the money they need,’ he said.
If the state insists on replacing fathers with welfare then it will continue to create a huge problem of liable parents who rightly or wrongly don't want to or won't pay. It created this problem in Australia with the Parenting Payment and in NZ with the DPB. Sometimes good men get screwed literally and then figuratively. Get rid of the single parent benefit and the bulk of the problem would disappear as women recalculated where their best interests lay. If there was no DPB I would wholeheartedly support the courts using every measure they could to extract support. But not as matters stand. This is a policy for a conservative, authoritarian party. It's not a good policy for a liberal party. But that's just my opinion.
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Yes, Lindsay, you are correct...getting rid of the benefit is the first step.
You are absolutely correct Lindsay. One of the most effective fixes to the problem of men not paying child support is to bring in preferential shared parenting, which effectively makes fathers equal parents with mothers. Preferential shared parenting typically raises child maintenance compliance from 50% to over 90%. So why did Labour vote down Muriel Newmans preferential shared parenting bill in 1991. Because they dont want to fix the problem of child maintenance non complience at all. There is more political gain in playing men off against women. Why is Labour so much more successful at winning the female vote than National or ACT? There are the real motivations.
So some Ausy prat going on about stopping men at the border is just trying to divert us from the real issues.
It's not just men that don't pay child support - sometimes the paying parent is a woman. DIAC should not issue visas to visit or live in Australia to CSA dodgers be they male or female.
When a man can leave Sweden with three children to two different mothers (one his first wife) and come to Australia leaving the women in debt and other debts all over the country (Sweden), and his children unsupported, and then twice marry Australian women and leave them embezzled and deep in debt, as well as a string of other people he has borrowed money from and left in debt, and defactos he has done the same thing to.
How come the taxation dept who have not had a tax filed by him since 2003, and Child Support who he owes over $96,000.00, have not caught up with this rogue and dealt with him? If he had stolen this money from a bank he would have been hunted down and incarcerated asap.
There is another unsuspecting woman in Pinjarra who is living with this rat. I fear she will be the next victim of his embezzling ways. He is dangerously violent if the woman he is with finds out what he is up to. Last wife got hit in the throat with a karate blow and held against her will while he watched his little old mother pound the wife about the head causing broken teeth and damage to her eyesight. Apparently mother and son work over the victim together so the son looks like a nice quite gentleman who does not drink and who looks after his poor little old mum. Works like a charm to con the women into trusting him. This rat whould be locked up so he cant hurt anyone else. He and his mother lied about assaulting the wife and there were no witnesses. They got away with assault and deprivation of liberty.
Pity the Swede is a naturalised Australian, we cant deport him!
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