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In New York, failure to pay results in a suspension of one's driver's license. A lot of people start paying after getting pulled over for an infraction like blowing a stop sign, only to get locked up for driving without a license. Most of them don't even know it's been suspended.
The court doesn't do anything without due process. Why wouldn't they know it's been suspended? In California deadbeat parents get plenty of warning even before it happens. I'm sure NY has similar procedures in place. Plus, since it can be counter-productive to yank a license when the goal is to collect child support, it's not generally something child support enforcement agencies rush to do. People who can't drive often have trouble getting to work. Most of these case drag on a long time and it's very rare to encounter a parent who truly has no clue they don't owe a huge amount of child support arrears.
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