| Raleigh, NC-Rosen Law Firm advises its clients | | | | Rosen, a board certified family law specialist and |
| against a law that could affect their hobbies and | | | | president of Rosen Law Firm. "Telling a parent |
| careers. Non-custodial parents who haven't been | | | | they have to pay support sometimes isn't |
| keeping up with their child support payments could | | | | enough--you need to threaten them that if they |
| find their ability to hunt curtailed under a state law | | | | don't their life will be less because of it." |
| aimed at penalizing deadbeat parents. | | | | So the day after Thanksgiving, when hunting |
| The law G.S. 50-13.12, which is a decade old, says | | | | season begins in earnest, thousands of North |
| a judge can revoke a person's hunting license if | | | | Carolinians head out in search for an 8-point buck. |
| that person fails to pay child support. Judges can | | | | For those with child support obligations, theyneed |
| also revoke other privileges including driving and | | | | to make sure they've paid their dues. |
| professional licenses. The statute says that the | | | | Rosen has been practicing divorce law in North |
| 'forfeiture of licensing privileges may be taken for | | | | Carolina for more than twenty years. "Before this |
| failure to pay child support or failure to comply | | | | law was established, getting deadbeat parents to |
| with subpoena pursuant to child support of | | | | pay up was like getting a 10-year-old to clean up |
| paternity establishment proceedings'. | | | | their room, " says Rosen. |
| The question is whether revoking licenses is a | | | | Statutes: |
| good incentive for parents to keep up with child | | | | 1.G.S. 50-13.12: |
| support payments. "For a lot of people in North | | | | 2.G.S. 110-142. |
| Carolina, hunting is a popular pastime," says Lee | | | | |