Comments on: “You Didn’t Pay Child Support? We’ll Make it Harder for You to Work” https://www.overlawyered.com/2013/11/didnt-pay-child-support-well-make-harder-work/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Sat, 16 Nov 2013 05:15:45 +0000 hourly 1 By: Hugo S. Cunningham https://www.overlawyered.com/2013/11/didnt-pay-child-support-well-make-harder-work/comment-page-1/#comment-250172 Sat, 16 Nov 2013 05:15:45 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=42517#comment-250172 In addition to the debtors’ prison argument raised by the student, there is also the devaluation of license-suspension as a sanction against dangerous driving. In a community where license-suspension is widely viewed as capricious, the unsafe driver will feel less inhibition about continuing to drive (and endangering the public) despite a suspended license.

On a related question, I have opposed car seizures for minor non-safety related offenses like cruising for prostitutes, largely on Eight Amendment grounds (“excessive fine”). AS a test of good faith, I would require communities wanting to institute non-safety seizures to demonstrate, in interests of proportionality, that they already were seizing cars of drivers using a license suspended for *safety* reasons (and only safety reasons).

]]> By: great unknown https://www.overlawyered.com/2013/11/didnt-pay-child-support-well-make-harder-work/comment-page-1/#comment-250033 Fri, 15 Nov 2013 13:05:00 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=42517#comment-250033 Isn’t “vehicle for sentimental vengefulness” a concise description of Family Court?

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