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Make the Jerk Pay: Tracking Down a Deadbeat Dad and Getting Child Support

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I ordered this book in hopes of obtaining a source of fresh information. I was somewhat disappointed. Yet I was pleased to find that this book was straight forward and easy to read. I'll be sharing it with many of our clients trying to collect child support in the future.

I have thoroghly enjoyed your book. You seemed to have covered every aspect of how to collect child support. Thanks for all your research and effort. This is definetly one I will pass on to all my friends seeking support. Sincerely, Dawn Wilson Clay County MO ACES Co-Coordinator

Rose and Malone give us great, easily usable guidelines for tracking down anybody. These authors know their stuff. From schools to property to driving records to work records, we all leave tracks. Now we know how to make those tracks work for us! Deadbeat parents, look out now.

Very slanted writing! However, it does offer some very good tips on finding out information about the ex (which might be useful before filing, during the divorce, or after if she leaves with the kid(s)). Check it out. It might be a good idea to see what you can find out about yourself so you'll know what might come up in court.

I have read many books on this subject and this one stands out as one of my favorites. The author covers many different "situations" and discusses many ideas on how to collect back child support. A lot of research was put into this book and I found it all very helpful and full of interesting ideas and suggestions.

Helping my daughter matriculate through a divorce this past year has been very educational for us, her parents who have been married 48 years and are shocked by the ordeal. In the early stages, she got almost no support from the outgoing husband and we had to subsidize her and the children to keep them from being homeless. Although we hired the best family law attorney at $300 an hour to guide our daughter through the divorce jungle, I've been trying to learn all I can about the process and this inexpensive book, Make the Jerk Pay, provides helpful information. It also provides a lot of inspirational case-by-case stories of how other women have handled their individual situations to reclaim their dignity and support their children. I've passed the book along to my daughter to read and highly recommend all single parents read it, as well as their parents to better understand the process. If only our government would make it as difficult to get married as go through a divorce, perhaps we'd lower the divorce rate!

Completely crazy! Warning! This is a bible for gold diggers. It's amazing that in the 21st century, 30 years after Roe v. Wade that some women and men, for that matter, are still pulling this garbage. The choice to be a parent is 50\50 and no, ladies, it does not have to be decided at orgasm. For 30 years, women in the United States have had the right to choose to be or not to be a parent after conception. Abandonement, abortion and adoption laws give all women the right to decide whether or not they want to be parents. Men do not have this choice. They never have. Men are just expected to take a huge responsibility without any choice. That's being adult? In what crazy world? Why do you think more than 50% of marriages end in divorce in this country? No one in the United States should be forced by anyone to be a parent-Or forced into marriage because of a child. Women aren't. Stop playing victims. It's childish. Stop getting "religious" at convenient times(i.e. when you're pregnant). Where was your religion and morals while you were having unprotected, irresponsible nonmarital sex?

Men should have the same legal choices that women have, barring abortion. A man should be able to for a certain period of time following conception or notification of paternity, legally relinquish his parental responsibilities-that includes financial. Women have this right. Why shouldn't men?

When you accidentally get pregnant ladies and the father tells you he doesn't want to have the child, either abort, adopt or abandone or GET A LIFE! and raise it yourself without dragging other people like the reluctant bio-father and the child, for that matter, into the mess you've made.

Don't accuse "fathers by force" of running from their "mistakes". Accept their choice for what it really is, an attempt to correct their "mistakes". By keeping the children, you're not necessarily correcting your mistake, you're just compounding it.

As unsettling as this book is, every man who is contemplating marraige should read it. You will get some idea of the forces arrayed against you when your wife decides to call it quits and move on to her next victim.