When Kristin's car was repossessed - she says that John owed payments; he says they were her responsibility - the courts ordered John to give Kristin his.

Gov. William F. Weld of Massachusetts introduced legislation today to give state officials vast new powers to track down parents who owe child-support payments and to punish those who refuse to pay.

Lodsys first wrote to a number of app developers around 13 May suggesting that they owed it payments for using its patent - which covers the in-app purchasing system, a facility offered through Apple's iOS software.

The agency has a list of more than 30,000 artists to track down who are owed payments ranging from $50 to $5,000.

SportsLine had been actively seeking a buyer since May, as it was losing money and owed payments to Viacom, which ran a co-branded site with SportsLine.

"TPSA" owed payments based on data traffic over the network.

Men who owe child-support payments are confronted by newly aggressive efforts to track them down.

B1 A computer finds fathers who owe child-support payments in New York State.

Besides labor costs and rent, the venture owed monthly payments on a $1.2 million loan from a consortium of more than a dozen hard-won lenders.

He said that would make it possible for those students to have their in-school interest added to the principal they owe and make higher monthly payments than they do now.