AKIron: While that may be the law in California I'm wondering if there are any actual cases of a minor rape victim unwillingly paying child support.
They would owe the back support all their adult lives. They can actually go to jail for owing child support. Their driver license may be revoked - making them unable to work. Even bankrupcy would not clear their obligations - same as with taxes.
Their relatives may have their money confiscated as "deadbeat accomplices.":
West Virginia officials cleaned out the bank account of an 85-year-old grandmother whose son allegedly owed child support. The son paid in none of the $6,450 taken from the account, which comprised her life savings. She was also charged a $75 processing fee.
In Iowa, the government has confiscated the savings of 11-year-old Rylan Nitzschke. Rylan saved $220 from chores and shoveling snow, but that now belongs to Iowa. Why? Rylan’s father allegedly owes child support (to Rylan), and his father’s name was on the boy’s bank account.
Since the state officials receive matching federal funds for each dollar they collect (and for each father they incarcerate) - helping to balance the budhet, Rylan will not see his money again.
According to the officials who enforce child support, a "child" is not a dependent minor but any recipient of their chivalry. "We've got some 40- to 45-year-old ‘kids’ running around who are owed child support," says Nick Young, enforcement director in Virginia. In Ohio, a 77-year-old great grandfather who had always paid on time was told he owed $45,000 in back child support and had his wages garnished, even though his youngest child was 46 years old.
In California, a 50-year-old divorce lawyer successfully sued his own parents for child support because, he said, depression rendered him unable to work.
miko