"They had the best of everything and now to worry about when I'll be able to feed them or clothe them, I just cant believe it," says Susan Trotter.

When Susan Trotter's 13-year marriage ended in 2007, she never thought her kids would suffer financially.

"I've had to tell my kids they cant play in sports, I have to tell them they can't get a new pair of tennis shoes or a new outfit until well be able to afford it," Trotter says.

That's because she says her ex-husband Eric hasn't sent a full child support payment in at least eight months. Through a subpoena, her Attorney Donald Ray learned Eric's employer, family-owned Trotter Manufacturing, instructed the payroll company to withhold less than half the court-ordered amount.

"What they've done was wrong and it appears to me with what I've seen so far, there's been some intent to do it wrong," says Ray.

Trotter Manufacturing's attorney Jason Rock tells me the down economy forced the company to layoff half its staff and slash everyone else's pay nearly in half, including Eric's.

Attorney Ray points out any changes made to child support payments must be approved in court. And if they're not, a new Illinois law allows parents like Susan Trotter to sue not only their ex-spouse and his or her employer, but individuals involved.

"It prevents corporations from essentially saying sorry were gonna close our doors and then no one could go after me its not that uncommon for a business to say no longer were incorporated, were gonna dissolve and then two month later open up as something else if business were to close, you could still go after their assets," says Ray.

"It has totally ruined me financially," says Trotter.

Susan Trotter now works two jobs and says she depends on child support payments to make ends meet.

"I should get the money that was awarded in court," she says.

Trotter Manufacturing's V.P. of Operations and the payroll company, Lindstrom, Sorenson and Associates have been dismissed from the lawsuit since they've reimbursed Susan Trotter about 85-hundred dollars for money not withheld from her ex-husband Eric's paychecks. She is now going after a one-hundred dollar a day penalty from Trotter Manufacturing. Multiple calls to Eric Trotter and his attorney James Koepke have not been returned.