Deadbeat vs Deadbroke: How to Collect Your Child Support When They Are Self-Employed, Unemployed, Quasi-Employed, Working Under-The-Table or In Cash-Based Businesses, and More... Paperback – July 9, 2014

Great book! Very eye-opening. Spence helps you sort through the legal mess of whether you should use DSS to collect, or an attorney--or strike it out on your own. She makes a great case for the latter, which is also a low budget option, but a solid one. She provides a lot of creative ideas for finding your ex and locating the money, or assets. You'll still need to do your homework, to figure out how to do all of this in each state. But, the book is a great place to start.

A MUST read for any parent struggling to make ends meet.

Very good book a must have for struggling parents of one parent families.

This book has an impressive collection of ideas and information about how to collect child support that someone has been ordered to pay. It also has an exhaustive set of sample legal forms that may be useful for those who need to take steps in court to collect what is owed to them. The author's coverage of what you need to know, what you need to do, and how to do it is quite thorough and is mostly well organized. The book does repeat references to prior versions of itself too often, and the tone of the book is at times mean-spirited. Nevertheless the author clearly gets the most important things right. If someone owes support for your child and you are having trouble collecting it, this book will be very useful.- submitted by the co-author of The Guide to Low-Cost Divorce in Virginia  The Guide to Low-Cost Divorce in Virginia

Deadbeat vs. Deadbroke is one of the most complete books on collecting child support I have ever seen. As someone who has worked with divorcing and divorced women for over 15 years, I know getting the money your children deserve is often an ongoing problem. Unfortunately, only 25% of custodial parents who have child support orders ever receive all their money.If you are among the other 75% not receiving the money your children are owed, then do yourself a favor and get this book. It will give you the information and resources to collect what you’re owed. Simone goes into so much detail on the many different methods of enforcing and collecting your child support. Even though there is a lot of information (don’t let it overwhelm you), it offers practical advice presented in an easy-to-understand way. There are worksheets to help you determine what it really costs to raise your kids, so you will have the numbers to back up the child support you’re requesting. It also highlights the unaccounted costs that are often overlooked.The book covers what you can do on your own to collect the money, how to find an attorney to help with your case, the ins and outs of working with support enforcement agencies, and more.If you think you’ve run out of options and are hitting a brick wall, Simone offers lots of strategies (many you’ve probably never heard of) to attack the situation and explains the pros and cons of each. Her methods will help any custodial parent (either divorced or never married) that is tired of struggling to get by while the other parent ignores or evades their obligation to support their child.

Author was extremely rude as well as attacked a group of women discussing her book. It’s sad in this day in age that women can’t be supportive of one another. Information in this book is easily found online, it’s nothing new and if you’ve done the slightest amount of research you can find it all without supporting the author who is vindictive and unprofessional.