Free Exercise Clause and child support obligation

[Douglas Laycock]

Ed Brayton wrote:
 
No one would even conceive of allowing a father to voluntarily decide to stop working to
get out of paying child support.
 
There are cases on this, and they go both ways.  Some involve Dads who simply refuse to work; some who refuse to look for jobs outside their failing industry; some Dads with professional skills working at low-paying jobs.  Some courts have worried that ordering the father to work, or to work in a particular job or occupation, raises a Thirteenth Amendment problem.  My impression is that the more recent cases mostly go the way Ed assumed they would go.


 
 
Douglas Laycock
Alice McKean Young Regents Chair in Law
The University of Texas at Austin
 
Mailing Address:
Prof. Douglas Laycock
University of Michigan Law School
625 S. State St.
Ann Arbor, MI  48109

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