Governor Kristi Noem is making a big deal of pushing fathers to support the eggs they fertilize. But I’m not sure her bill changes much.…
Tag: child support
Representative Tom Pischke (R-25/Dell Rapids) served his primary constituency yesterday—himself and his caucus of angry deadbeat dads—by crying his way to a vote against House…
If California entrepreneurs can turn CAFO crap into energy, then the hoghouse of Senate Bill 179 must have some real power potential. (Sorry—the Legislature inspires…
Divorced father Representative Tom Pischke (R-25/Dell Rapids) is rallying the angry dad caucus again. The ten bills he is prime-sponsoring include three bills on child…
The Deadbeat Dad Brigade marches again on Pierre! South Dakota currently blocks parents who are behind in child support by $1,000 or more from getting…
If there is any such thing as “South Dakota values,” might they include not paying child support? The amount of unpaid child support rose from…
Senate Bill 141, the unnecessarily beleaguered update of our child support laws, finally passed Senate Judiciary yesterday. Prime sponsor and Child Support Commission member Senator Arthur Rusch…
I must still be a conservative: most of the time, I end up measuring the success of the South Dakota Legislature by what they don’t do…
SB 141 Lowers Burdens on Poor Parents, Increases Child Support Obligations Less Than Cost of Living…
…and Other Number Crunching! Senate Bill 141, the update of South Dakota child support laws delayed last month by misguided anti-child-support activists, comes before Senate Judiciary tomorrow (Tuesday)…
Yesterday I noted the strange rejection of House Bill 1032, a mostly innocuous update to the state’s child support calculation table, a clarification of the state’s minimum…