OGA Trouble
Keeping it short. The dad not paying child support, amount he has to pay per month is tiny (< $300). He doesn't have a lot to even take.
OGA never did anything helpful to collect it over the years when Mom needed it.
Mom found it much simpler to use 0% child support and waiving the existing arrearage as motivation to agree to drop the residency restriction of the child (to within the state of Texas vs a school district in a rough area). We bring the kid to the dad once a month ~200 miles away for the weekend during the school year.
We signed the agreement with the dad for court, OGA forced us to drop the arrearage forgiveness from the new simple custody agreement before they signed.
He's at 8k owed. 10k is a felony. We would much rather have him paying nothing and in his kids life, than him getting arrested and not being there at all... But the OGA is standing in the way of it.
Would a notorized letter from the mom forgiving past arrearage help? Is him paying us through the OGA and us sending it back once received illegal?
It feels weird that the OGA has so much power when even the other parent doesn't want or need the help.