DR Non-Support enforceable in USA??

gringosabroso

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Assume that a DR female lives in Puerto Plata; she has 3 children, all under the age of 10; same DR father. Father moved permanently to the Bronx 2 years ago, with a valid USA residency.
DR mother obtains a Judgment in the POP Court [cf. new Palacio de Justicia], for non-support ordering the DR father fo pay 6,000 P per month. Father never returns to the DR, for reasons which may be obvious. Father is working in a factory, earning US $600. week, gross.
Can Mother, in POP, get any $? How? Laws in the DR? Laws in the USA? Has any DR mother collected from a deadbeat DR father in the USA, with the same general circumctances? Thank you.
 

Hillbilly

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I doubt it, but only because

she probably does not have the wherewithall to hire a lawyer in New York to persue her claim. The US courts will back up a DR child support verdict, since DR courts back up US child support claims that have been ajudicated in the states.

As I see it, if she has some friend in the states that will go to court for her with all the proper papers-legal translation of the judgement and all the other papers...a costly process in and of itself...as well as the proof of paternity and maternity...

This is why she will not, in all probability see a dime. Unless, of course he is contacted and told: "Hey, come on, after all, these are your children fer Crissakes!" And then he decides that a couple of hundred a month is doable....

HB :(:(