DA goes after deadbeat dads

KINGSTON – The Ulster County District Attorney’s Office has filed criminal warrants against 11 parents who have refused to pay child support. DA Holley Carnright said collectively they own over $640,000 in past due support.

“For many years the impetus for collecting child support from ‘dead beat’ parents was on the aggrieved spouse who proceeded through Family Court,” he said. “Too often the spouse would be left with a judgment of child support but no actual payments were received.”

His approach is to use all of the resources available in a coordinated effort, said Carnright. “We are starting to treat spouses who are owed child support as we do other victims of crime.”