I have a bench warrant for child support im like 17 600 behind and have not been able to pay anything i now have a 1 000 i can pay this week and start making 50 00 payments weekly.
How to get rid of a bench warrant for child support.
See if you can schedule a hearing to take care of the matter.
One of these is a motion to quash bench warrant.
Issue a bench warrant for the payer s arrest requiring that the payer be brought before the court.
You will need to find a way to pay the fees and then appear in court with the payment to avoid being arrested.
Check the amount of your arrears.
Make some payments you don t have to pay it all at once but the csea wants to see a pattern of payments as does the court.
First call a good attorney.
The clerk will lay out your options.
The court of clark county nevada for example posts various forms online.
When police arrest a person on a bench warrant the person typically will be taken to jail and held there until the judge is available for a hearing.
If the warrant concerns a felony your personal appearance to clear or remove it is required.
I was wondering will that be enough to get the bench warrant lifted becuase i have to be free to continue trying to pay.
The main way that a bench warrant may be cleared or removed is by your personal appearance in court by your attorney s appearance on your behalf or by appearing with your attorney.
Find the payer in contempt for the reasons stated in the motion.
Call the court you suspect issued the warrant and ask the clerk about it.
Go immediately to the dc superior court go to the court information window and inform the clerk that you wish to surrender to the court in response to the bench warrant generally you will be instructed to report to the courtroom of the judge who issued the warrant.
If you were supposed to appear for a traffic ticket ask if you can reschedule or simply pay the fines.
Well my case is in macomb county and wayne county michigan as far as my case past i owe 11 038 46 dollars to macomb in back support and 24 057 42 to wayne i recieved an iwn on both cases to pay 156 00 a week wich is killing me i am unable to fight this amount due to a bench warrant issued in my name without the money to pay off my warrant i am kinda of stuck.
When you pay the charges that are due the arrest warrant will be withdrawn.
Adjourn the hearing.
Another answer suggests incorrectly that the warrant is void the answer goes on to imply that paying anything toward the case is validating the alleged debt and not paying will somehow preserve the right not to have to pay.