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It's amazing that people don't know this is the default. This is also the way debt is criminalized. The judge says you have to pay, you don't, contempt. Ther
by 77pt77 3y ago
It's amazing that people don't know this is the default.
This is also the way debt is criminalized.
The judge says you have to pay, you don't, contempt.
There was a guy imprisoned for over a decade because the judge believed he had money and was hiding it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._Beatty_Chadwick https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._Beatty_Chadwick
- qingcharles 3y agoI was with many people in jail who were jailed for failure to pay child support when the judge thought they should be able to pay. These were people at the very bottom of the chain. They had already lost their driver's license as the state would take that away first as punishment for not paying, and therefore they had serious trouble finding a job. You can't go to jail in the USA for debts, but the judge can convert a debt into a contempt charge and then jail you on that.
- 77pt77 3y ago> people in jail who were jailed for failure to pay child support You say people, but I'm going to bet they were all men.