Then I guess those people can tell their family that they can’t come because they’ve been blowing off their kids for years, then. The vast majority of payments on my cases were pretty small in the grand scheme of what it costs to raise a child - I’m talking a couple hundred dollars a month or less, usually, so to reach the threshold where you can’t get a passport ($2500), it wasn’t just one missed payment or a couple months of unemployment screwing them over. Most owed waaay more than $2500 by the time they bothered to call me.
That doesn’t mean withholding your passport is wrong if you’re not paying child support. Stop being an asshole and pay for the kids you brought into this world and abandoned.
A passport would also make it easier for someone to just leave the country permanently, and never pay their child support. This seems like a reasonable thing to prevent by denying the passport.
It may not be a vacation. It could be death of a family member or work travel. There are all kinds of non-pleasure reasons to need a passport.
Then I guess those people can tell their family that they can’t come because they’ve been blowing off their kids for years, then. The vast majority of payments on my cases were pretty small in the grand scheme of what it costs to raise a child - I’m talking a couple hundred dollars a month or less, usually, so to reach the threshold where you can’t get a passport ($2500), it wasn’t just one missed payment or a couple months of unemployment screwing them over. Most owed waaay more than $2500 by the time they bothered to call me.
That doesn’t mean withholding your passport is wrong if you’re not paying child support. Stop being an asshole and pay for the kids you brought into this world and abandoned.
A passport would also make it easier for someone to just leave the country permanently, and never pay their child support. This seems like a reasonable thing to prevent by denying the passport.