Legislator Proposes Changes To Child Support Eliminating Jail Time

By QCostaRica.com 05/27/2016

\”QCOSTARICA – Legislator Oscar Lopez of the Partido Accesibilidad Sin Exclusión (PASE) is promoting a bill that seeks a change to the Child Support Act (Ley de Pensiones Alimentarias), eliminating ‘direct’ jail for those who lose their jobs and cannot pay child support.

“What we want is to change is a person who is not a criminal going to prison of a person directly, because he cannot pay support, to the ‘dad’ going to prison at night to sleep and be out looking for work during the day,” said the legislator. …\”

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