Pearl - Most Child Support Cases Start With Welfare w⧸ @thisisshah

00:00:00.000 I'll tell you this. Every now and then somebody who had a little bit of better income would get

00:00:05.640 snagged. And typically it would be like one person with a good income meets somebody that doesn't

00:00:09.860 on either end. But for the most part, 65% of our cases were welfare cases. Really? Yeah. So that

00:00:16.820 means that the reason the case opened up was because a single parent, typically mom, went to

00:00:22.620 a welfare office and asked for money. So you got a home, you got a broken family. So the welfare

00:00:27.620 office would say hey there's cash aid going for this kid um they would send us a request we'd

00:00:32.340 automatically open up the case yeah well we would instantly no oh yeah yeah yeah i mean because a

00:00:40.260 lot of times a guy would when we'd call them they'd be surprised like oh but she said she doesn't want 1.00

00:00:44.980 child support or we're good why are you guys and it was this really stupid thing where it's like we

00:00:50.580 couldn't explicitly tell them they're on welfare but when they got the complaint it says they're

00:00:55.060 on welfare i don't know why they did that um so a lot of our cases did fall into this category of

00:01:01.940 where it had something to do with welfare now sometimes the guy would have a decent job and

00:01:06.260 she'd be on welfare you know maybe once in a blue moon the other way around um and then the other 0.87

00:01:13.860 you know rest of the cases were non-welfare cases so these can be people who were married

00:01:19.940 or they were never married but they just you know they had decent incomes and stuff and

00:01:25.300 they would split up or they would go through a divorce and it was just easier to come into our

00:01:29.540 office and say hey can you get the child support order for us we wouldn't you know it's pretty

00:01:34.900 much financed by the taxpayers except for like a tiny amount so there was a decent disparity but

00:01:42.340 a lot of the cases were welfare but i would say you'd be surprised who you'd see in there you

00:01:46.900 You know, I'd see all kinds of people, doctors, lawyers.

Pearl - May 31, 2025