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    NatHerring Posts: 2, Reputation: 1
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    Jul 8, 2011, 12:16 PM
    Sealed support orders
    Unsealing after 18 yrs old?
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    Jul 8, 2011, 12:17 PM

    What is your reason to want to unseal? You have to present an extremely good reason to do this to the judge or it won't be done.
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    Jul 8, 2011, 12:20 PM

    Are you referring to adoption records ? Or the court records or proceedings for the support order, I don't believe that the actual support order itself is sealed ?
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    Jul 8, 2011, 12:24 PM

    Another question that totally confuses me. Leaves me wondering "what's that all about?".

    Perhaps you are under the impression that a gerund followed by a prepositional phrase and followed by a question mark constitues a question. It doesn't.

    What are sealed, and why?
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    Jul 12, 2011, 11:49 PM
    Helping my brother with a child support case... exwife had 100 a mo and sealed record, left town, and son found him, his father, as an adult and ever since she's reopened this order from their divorce and has been trying to pursue all arrearages. This said child is now 32 yrs old, and the judge hasn't seen case, but the commissioner has thrown the book at him for no support or for being a dead beat father. 27 years ago the fathers didn't have the visitation rights and enforcements they do now. This is a disaster. I helped brother file a new case of Laches on basis of Elstoppel. Which is she never enforced so should be denied, and that he never saw his child. She stopped all visists and left town. Went in hidding. It's a mess because I love all involved.
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    Jul 13, 2011, 03:32 AM

    OK, first ANY question on law needs to include your general locale as laws vary by area.

    Second, Visitation and support are not connected so that argument won't fly. I also agree I've never heard of a support order being sealed. Where are you getting this info from?

    As to not paying the support, sorry, but he has no excuse. If he was aware a support order was in place, then he should have made every effort to pay it. If he could not find where to make payments or who to make them to, then he sho9uld have placed the money into an "escrow" account until it was claimed. The commissioner is right to throw the book at him.

    On the other hand, he can attempt to prosecute her for parental kidnapping or sue her for interfering with his parental rights (but if he made no effort to find them, that will likely not fly).

    He needs an attorney and needs one now!
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    Jul 13, 2011, 01:58 PM

    Also depending on the state that this occurred in there may be interest owed on the arrears (amount of unpaid child support).

    But Im still unclear as to who is trying to collect? Are you saying the son (32) is trying to collect from the father ?

    Did the mother pass away ?

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