Posted: 7/30/2015 7:00:20 PM EDT
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I know you cant get blood from a stone but...
If a person has an assault charge in 2013 and a pending fine of $190 and a shoppifting charge in 2015 of and pending fine of $370 and hasn't paid child support since 2011 and has 3 contempt findings against them on the failure to pay child support, at what point does something along the line of a punishment occur? I had no idea that the law had no teeth |
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Usually within a certain amount of time with no child support paid, a warrant will be issued for their arrest. Honestly I cannot recall what that period of time of no child support paid is, but I believe every time it is not paid you need to lodge a complaint. Bureaucracy is frustrating as all hell.
ETA: here you go Az Child Support Enforcement |
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They may or may not have a warrant. LE may or may not ever contact them and discover the warrant. Regardless, it sounds like you may or may not have a personal problem with somebody, and are now mad that the man isn't holding them down.... I wont deny that, not down, accountable |
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As someone else already said, there is probably a good chance said person already has a warrant for their arrest. The real world isn't like TV, if there even is a warrant the cops aren't going to go raid their house unless it's a high level narcotics/firearms/money laundering/etc sort of thing. Eventually if they get pulled over or have some other contact with LE then the warrant would be discovered during records checks.
edit: Very sound advice to be lodging complaints each time, there needs to be records, the only thing automatic in the government is the issuance of welfare. |
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The child support is mostly likely get him a warrant. The fines may either get him a failure to pay warrant (13-810. Consequences of nonpayment of fines, fees, restitution or incarceration costs), a new misdemeanor charge or they may just reduce all unpaid fines/fees to a judgment. Theoretically a person could be placed in jail over unpaid fines, but that strikes most as a little too close to "debtor's prisons" and doesn't happen very often. |
There are over 50,000 outstanding warrants for residents in Maricopa County alone. So unless they are a serious felon that is a threat to the community, usually the fugitive teams from the various city, county, state and federal agencies and/or task forces are not looking. Unless said turd gets pulled over for a traffic stop, does something dumb to warrant contact from the police, or some concerned citizen points him out to a LEO  , he is going to continue to have said warrants.As said above, unless a complaint is filed on the unpaid child support, nothing gets triggered if he doesn't pay. |