re: #652 MandyManners

How can you force someone to work?

Actually, courts can and do force people to work - or faces the consequences. If a judge enters a child support order and the parent doesn’t pay, the other parent can file for contempt. Assuming (at least in my state) the parent requests jail time, the judge can send the non-paying parent to jail. The judge will of course hear explanations for failure to pay - but those explanations better make sense. Long-term inability to obtain, say, a minimum wage job, at the least, is not going to cut it with most judges.