Is This Law In Every State?

[Idnew]

We have two laws here (Florida)that tick me off and they don't even apply to me but I have wrote the Senators and Legislators and told them what idiots they are for passing such laws.

One is someone gets their drivers license suspended because they get behind on child support. Ok so they shouldn't get behind but if you suspend their license and they can't drive they can't get to work so no way to pay child support, but if they do drive and get caught enough times they go to jail so again they can't pay child support even if their trying.

The other one is if a teen gets a license but doesn't finish school they suspend their drivers license until they turn 18.

What the hell has either one of those laws got to do with driving and that should be the only time your license gets suspended is for driving voilations.:mad

[~wildangel~]

That is dumb, how in the world can they get to work with no car! lol

No, i don't think we have those laws here, i don't think anybody pays their child support either, we would have a lot of people walking if that was a law here (i think it's not a law here, hmmm)

[Idnew]

No, i don't think we have those laws here, i don't think anybody pays their child support either:laugh

Well it's election time so thought it a good time to write and complain. I also wrote them about our riduculous property taxes that have gone sky high this year. Mine have went up 800%. Oh yes I'm complaining and have filed a petition with the tax evaluation board about it. I wrote the Governor about it and told him maybe something should be done about it and maybe he should pass that info on to whoever he's endorsing for Governor so one of the ones that is running is now talking about raising homestead exemption from 25k to 50k. My ex-husband who lives across the hwy that got everything including our house and one parcel that has 125 acres with timber on it is paying lower taxes than me because ag value is so low and the house that is a lot bigger than mine is appraised at less than half of what mine is appraised at. Oh yes I plan on bringing all this up at the hearing. Time for a new property appraiser around here next election.

[~wildangel~]

All we can do is complain...hopefully they listen to us though, most of the time it seems that they don't, lol

[jad1097]

Good luck getting either one off the books.

One is to punish dead beat parents. The other is to keep kids in school. I think most states have both laws now. It's BS IMO.

Some kids just do not do well in school and it is better for them to drop out. LOL thats an opinion from a drop out.



http://www.fldoe.org/faq/default.asp?Dept=107&ID=510
How are schools using the driver license/school attendance program to encourage attendance?
Florida law (Section 1003.27, Florida Statutes) requires each school principal or designee to notify the district school board of each minor student accumulating 15 unexcused absences in a period of 90 calendar days or who drop out of school. The district school superintendent must provide the names and identifying information of these students to the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles (DHSMV). DHSMV may not issue a driver license or learner permit, or may suspend the driving privileges of any reported student until the student has satisfied regular school attendance requirements as outlined in Section 322.091, Florida Statutes..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deadbeat_dad

Action taken against defaulting parents
In the United States, many states suspend an individual's licenses (i.e. driver's license, business license, contractor license) if that individual has significant arrearage in support payments or does not consistently pay support. This authority does not extend to professionals who receive licensure through non-governmental agencies. In 2000, the state of Tennessee revoked the driver’s licenses of 1,372 people who collectively owed more than $13 million in child support. In Texas non-custodial parents behind more than three monthsin child-support payments can have court-ordered payments deducted from their wages, can have federal income tax refund checks, lottery winnings, or other money that may be due from state or federal sources intercepted by child support enforcement agencies, can have licenses (including hunting and fishing licenses) suspended, and a judge may sentence a nonpaying parent to jail and enter a judgment for past due child support. Some have taken the view that such penalties are unconstitutional, even alleging that "The People employed in the family courts and family court services are criminals" However, on September 4, 1998, the Supreme Court of Alaska upheld a law allowing state agencies to revoke driver's licenses of parents seriously delinquent in child support obligations. And in the case of United States of America v. Sage, U.S. Court of Appeals (2nd Cir., 1996), the court upheld the constitutionality of a law allowing federal fines and up to two years imprisonment for a person willfully failing to pay more than $5,000 in child support over a year or more when said child resides in a different state from that of the non-custodial parent. Child Support Recovery Act of 1992


U.S. court order issued by family division of county court garnishing typically the father's incomeBut, like any other past-due debt, the obligee, typically a mother, may forgive what is owed to her.

When past-due child support is owed to a state as a result of welfare paid out, the state is free to forgive some or all of it under what's known as an offer in compromise.

[Kuolema Nox]

Some kids should leave school a few years early to go into skilled/unskilled trades. How are they supposed to get a job if they can't get to their workplace? Surely the government's only adding to the unemployment levels.

We don't have anything like this in the UK as far as I'm aware, but we do have the problem of getting three points on our licenses every time we are caught breaking the speed limit, which I think is ridiculous. (If you have twelve points on your license, you are banned from driving.)
It is driving-related, but still, having spent several million pounds of taxpayers' money on speed cameras and police speed traps, the British government's only just realised that it's bad driving, not speeding, that causes accidents. If you're an experienced driver, why shouldn't you be allowed to drive at 80mph on a motorway? Conversely, if you know your reaction times are not good, how can you be expected to drive at 70mph? (I only started having driving lessons three months ago and I'm a very slow learner, so the fastest I've ever driven is 65mph; I usually do about 55 on dual carriageways.)

[Idnew]

Thanks for posting the info Jad. Well the homestead exemption is on the ballot tomorrow. It will raise the homestead to 50k if you are 65 or over if it passes. Still it should have been something on there if your low income of any age to be exempt or an additonal homestead.

[jad1097]

That is something we can agree upon.;)

I don't see how low income senior citizens in Miami-dade can afford to live here.