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F&F: Pilot Project Makes Failure to Pay Child Support a Felony
Submitted by Matt on Thu, 2012-08-16 22:33
Article here. Excerpt:
'New Mexico’s Governor Susana Martinez is celebrating August being Child Support Awareness Month by kicking off a pilot project. The Felony Prosecution Project will seek the prosecution of the state’s worst child support offenders for the abandonment of a child, which is a fourth degree felony under New Mexico law.
It is aimed at increasing the collection of child support from parents who are among the worst offenders at failing to honor their obligations to financially support their children. The project will be a partnership between the New Mexico Human Services Department Child Support Enforcement Division and the District Attorneys’ offices.'
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Innocent until proven guilty
The problem is that the prosecution will bring in evidence to show money was not paid. It is up to the defendant to show he paid it. That amounts to "guilty until proven innocent." I thought that was unConstitutional, but I also thought debtors' prisons were outlawed.