This is not true. My child support debt is twice that of my student loan debt and every year my taxes are garnished and the money goes to the student loan debt. I used to use the garnishment to knock down my child support but once I started school in my later years, every single year the government got their money first. It's been like that since 2011. I found it odd that the government would be "taking food out of the mouths of children," but they do.
Upon my second marriage, I had to file an injured spouse claim with our tax return so that my spouse wasn't responsible for either debt and was able to keep his "portion" of our joint return.
I've looked everywhere for an answer as to why this is the case and I have not received a clear one. It is simply my experience for almost 1.5 decades that Uncle Sam gets their money first, period.
