On Tuesday, Indiana State Police arrested a federal fugitive in southeast Indiana for failure to pay child support.

The federal warrant for his arrest charged the man with failure to pay child support in the state Georgia. According to sources, the 44-year-old man fled the state of Georgia in November 2006, and had been living in southeast Indiana for over four years prior to his arrest.

The man was temporarily housed in the Floyd County Jail in New Albany, Indiana, where federal fugitives are housed prior to their arraignment.

It isn't clear why the man in this case failed to make child support payments, but in some cases the noncustodial parent simply cannot afford to make payments, for any number of reasons.

A number of factors are involved in determining child support payments, including the number of children needing support, the income of both parents, the cost of health care and day care, whether there is child support being paid for a previous marriage, and so on. If circumstances change for the noncustodial parent, making it impossible to make payments, the order can be modified.

In some cases, noncustodial parents simply refuse to pay, regardless of their ability. Child support evasion, often referred to as "deadbeat" parents, is a real problem for many divorced or separated couples. Child support evasion can take a number of forms. The deadbeat parent may be a job hopper, habitually unemployed, not paid in such a way that garnishment is possible, self employed but reporting smaller income than they make, or hiding assets under other names.

Source: www.fox19.com, "Federal fugitive on the run since '06 arrested in Dearborn Co.," 23 Feb 2011.