TAKE YOUR TAILGATE TO THE NEXT LEVEL
GET IN THE GAME
One of the best parts of football season — other than watching your team dominate the scoreboards — is tailgating! It’s a great time filled with good food, drinks, and friends. The basics are easy to remember (condiments, trash bags, silverware, etc.), but sometimes the innovative and ingenious hacks are what bring the tailgate to a whole new level. Use a Toolbox. You can find these in just about any home improvement store and turn them into a tailgating kit filled with all of the essentials. From can openers and spatulas to trash bags and sunscreen, a toolbox can hold everything and anything you may need for the best tailgating experience.
your drinks and other refrigerated items cool for hours, and then by the end of the game, you will have fresh, cold water to drink.
Set up a Hand-Washing Station. This may be one of the most overlooked essentials in tailgating. Though some may settle for a simple hand sanitizer, if you’re cooking with raw meat and marinades, you’ll want to wash your hands with soap and water. Rather than waiting in long lines and missing tailgating time, you can have a “hand-washing station” nearby so you don’t miss out on the action! An empty laundry detergent dispenser or a cooler with a water spout can be filled with warm water for rinsing your hands — just have soap and paper towels on standby. Try these tailgating hacks this coming football season — or any sporting season! Whether you’ve been showing up to the games for decades or you’re hosting your first tailgating event, these genius hacks will make your next game easy, fun, and one for the books.
It’s also great for keeping everything in one place. You can even keep it in your car so you’re ready to tailgate at any moment.
Freeze Water Bottles. Instead of having to constantly refill your coolers and spend money on bags of ice, you can actually freeze your water bottles. The frozen bottles will keep
Navigate the Contempt of Court Processes
ENFORCING THOSE CHILD SUPPORT ORDERS
The duty to pay child support to provide for the needs of a child applies to all parents. Although child support disputes usually stem from divorce proceedings, disputes also arise between parents of children born out of wedlock. The duty to pay child support is a legal obligation arising from the parent-child relationship. In divorce cases involving minor children, the Court will enter an order establishing a monthly child support obligation from
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An individual held in Contempt of Court for willful failure to pay child support can face either civil or criminal liability for their failure to pay child support under the court’s valid orders. When a parent refuses to pay child support, Tennessee’s DCSS has several tools to enforce child support orders and collect payments when support is not being paid, including: • Withholding wages or other income • Seizing bank or investment assets • Intercepting federal tax refunds • Revoking driver’s licenses and/or professional licenses • Reporting child support debt to credit agencies, which can have a negative impact on credit scores • Imposing a lien against a home or personal property If you have additional questions about how to enforce a child support order in Tennessee, contact Douglass & Runger, PLLC, Attorneys at Law, at (901) 388-5805, so we can help you navigate through this process.
• Establishing paternity • Establishing child support orders • Enforcing child support orders • Establishing and enforcing health insurance coverage • Obtaining and distributing child support payments
A child support order may be enforced via a Wage Assignment Order whereby a monthly child support obligation is automatically deducted each month from an obligor parent’s paycheck. If an obligor parent is unemployed or does not receive traditional income, DCSS can take child support funds from the
one parent to the other. If a parent fails to pay court- ordered support, the other parent can seek enforcement of the Court’s child support order by asking to hold the noncompliant parent in Contempt of Court.
In scenarios involving child support for the benefit of
children born outside a marriage, Tennessee’s Division of Child Support Services (DCSS) assists parents wishing to establish a child support order.
other parent’s unemployment payments, workers’ compensation funds, Social Security benefits, or veteran’s disability benefits.
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