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Alan Shatter

  • 08-11-2012 5:57pm
    #1
    Procrastastudy
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    Now that I have your attention :D

    Shatter's Family Law states that a maintenance defaulter can be imprisoned for up to three months (I think for contempt). Unhelpfully Mr Shatter did not footnote this - anyone any idea under what legislation.

    Thanks in advance!


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  • #2
    Victor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 78,577 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    Procrastastudy wrote: »
    anyone any idea under what legislation.

    It hasn't been passed yet. ;)

    Joking!


  • #3
    445279.ie
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    Section 31 Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2011

    http://www.oireachtas.ie/documents/bills28/acts/2011/a2311.pdf


  • #4
    krd
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,455 ✭✭✭krd


    Procrastastudy wrote: »
    Shatter's Family Law states that a maintenance defaulter can be imprisoned for up to three months (I think for contempt).

    Where did he get this idea?........This is one of the things they use in the US for banging people up.

    Under current law, if the judge makes an order to pay maintenance, and it's defaulted on. Can't the judge already imprison the defaulter for contempt. If the judge believes the defaulter is doing a Quinn?

    As I understand it, under existing law, wages can be garnished etc. Though if someone cannot pay, they cannot pay.


  • #5
    Procrastastudy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,224 ✭✭✭Procrastastudy


    krd wrote: »
    Where did he get this idea?........This is one of the things they use in the US for banging people up.

    Under current law, if the judge makes an order to pay maintenance, and it's defaulted on. Can't the judge already imprison the defaulter for contempt. If the judge believes the defaulter is doing a Quinn?

    As I understand it, under existing law, wages can be garnished etc. Though if someone cannot pay, they cannot pay.

    It has me all confused (not difficult tbh) because it doesn't refer to the sentence possible in the legislation it just says "deal with the matter accordingly" and for some reason the District Court is allowed to hand out penalties as if it were the High Court (which is a bit bloody odd imho)


  • #6
    krd
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,455 ✭✭✭krd


    Procrastastudy wrote: »
    It has me all confused (not difficult tbh) because it doesn't refer to the sentence possible in the legislation it just says "deal with the matter accordingly" and for some reason the District Court is allowed to hand out penalties as if it were the High Court (which is a bit bloody odd imho)


    It really sounds like the American thing. They lock up "dead beat dads" for not paying maintenance. ....And it's just a happy coincidence that many of these "dead beat dads" are poor and black.

    I knew someone whose daughter was a special "dead beat dad" probation officer/cop. She took a man, who couldn't pay his maintenance because he was terminally ill, and on a ventilator, and threw him in jail - the county went to extreme expense of having a ventilator and an operator carted into jail with him - to be humane and all.

    It was only a matter of time before Alan and his friends, got working on their "final solution" for the working class people.




    I don't know about you....But I'll never let them take me alive.


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