A Bexar County state senator filed a bill that would lower the interest rate for overdue child support payments.
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The bill was filed by state Sen. Judith Zaffirini .she said, in part, “lowering interest rates would make repayments more achievable, encouraging consistent payment behavior, especially among low-income earners.” “We’ll get more payments because the payments are more affordable,” Zaffirini said during a committee meeting this session.But this bill has had backlash. John Gabriel, a senior visiting judge, wrote a letter to Sen. Zaffirini’s office in opposition.Steven Sinkin, an attorney who specializes in the collection of past-due child support for all ages, said he was shocked to read the bill. “It’s lowering the consequence, lowering the incentive, lowering and the protection for the women and children of the state,” Sinkin said. “Who are we helping? It is really incomprehensible.” One of Sinkin’s clients is Veronica Posada. She’s working to collect child support from the father of her children and from her own dad, who didn’t pay her mother for years. She’s able to do this because there aren’t time limits for this kind of collection in Texas. “I can’t understand their logic,” Posada said, talking about the bill. “You have families out there like mine. For 25 years, we didn’t collect child support because he thought it wasn’t necessary.”Josie Schlather it’s “a burden to fight, and it’s a burden not to fight.” “There’s no loan that you can get that‘s 3% and it’s principal first,” Schlather said. “I have a daughter, and I have sons who witness all of this behavior. When you have obligations, you meet them and you honor them and you don’t get away with something because you can.” KSAT reached out to Zaffirini for an interview, but she was unable to accommodate before the deadline. “The rationale for filing my Senate Bill 629 is twofold: Representatives of the Office of the Attorney General requested the change, and national data, particularly from Wisconsin, show it works,” Zaffirini said in a statement, in part. “By making repayment more realistic, my bill would help more Texas families receive the support they deserve.”
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