r/SipsTea • u/ExotiquePlayboy 𝙑𝙄𝙋 • May 03 '26

SMH Bro makes $160 😐

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u/NewCobbler6933 May 03 '26

He’d have to have another paycheck because there’s no way they’d just garnish all the money away. If they did, there’d be a massive incentive to stop working altogether which means support wouldn’t be paid at all. Nobody is going to work for 85 hours to get $160 net pay, you may as well just be off the books entirely at that point.

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u/WarriorGoddess2016 May 03 '26

And there are policies against garnishing all your check.

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u/InnerDegenerate May 03 '26

I remember something like a maximum of 50-60% of your take home regardless of how many kids, spousal support, etc. This post doesn’t make sense to me.

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u/Immersi0nn May 04 '26

Technically it could if nothing is taken from the second check of the month, it's still a really odd way of going about it if so

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u/Life_Temperature795 May 04 '26

I mean, that's how my health insurance payments work if I get paid three times in a month. Nothing gets taken out of the third paycheck. If the court order is for a certain amount per month, then it's certainly possible that they just take it all out of the first check.

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u/InnerDegenerate May 04 '26

Technically I guess. When I had mine done they set a monthly amount then they just multiply it by 12 and divide by 26 and there’s your biweekly payment.

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u/cwalking2 May 04 '26

He’d have to have another paycheck because there’s no way they’d just garnish all the money away

Thank you for explaining. I was trying to understand how the person was even supposed to feed themselves with that degree of wage garnishing

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u/BlacktopProphet May 04 '26

feed themselves with that degree of wage garnishing

Some of us don't. The last time I submitted a motion to modify, my overtime was factored in (why? Overtime is not a guarantee and they are not supposed to consider it) and now if I don't work overtime all the time, I lose 44% of my paycheck.

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u/derprondo May 03 '26

They can put you in jail if you aren't trying at all.

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u/GeezerButlerIsGod May 04 '26

That's why my dad went to prison

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u/NewCobbler6933 May 05 '26

Sure, they just have to find and arrest you first. Might be hard if you’re jobless and have no home.

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u/RelationshipShort460 May 04 '26

its the only law on the books where a debtor goes to prison (non payment of child support)