Wonder how you’ll collect child support? Some states like Mississippi throw deadbeat dads in jail. In Ohio they put delinquent dad’s mug shots on pizza boxes. And California will pull a deadbeat doctor’s medical license. You’d think that would kind of get his attention, but it happened twice to the Beverly Hills plastic surgeon who operated on Kanye West’s mother, Dr. January (Jan) Adams, most recently on Wednesday night.

The California Department of Consumer Affairs, which oversees the California Medical Board, wrote to Adams on May 21 informing him that he had to pay back child support or alimony by midnight on June 25. The Associated Press reported that he had been working under a temporary 150-day license, part of a debtor’s program run by the Department of Consumer Affairs, which issues temporary licenses until deadbeats pay up.

On June 26, the Medical Board announced in the matter of Dr. Adams that, “as of midnight last night, he is not allowed to practice medicine in California.” His license had previously been suspended for three months in 2006, for the same problem.

Turns out, that’s not his only problem. The Medical Board was already investigating whether or not to suspend his license because of two arrests for drunk driving. (You’d think that would be enough, wouldn’t you?) A few hours after his medical license was suspended he was arrested about an hour from Oakland by California Highway Patrol for driving his gray Jaguar up an off ramp on Interstate 680. He flunked the sobriety test. Oh yeah, and he was driving with a suspended license.

His website lists him as “a physician, author, lecturer, television personality, and entrepreneur,” and says he graduated from Harvard and has created some top cosmetic products. Maybe, but he also apparently doesn’t pay court ordered child support or alimony.

Doctors, it turns out, are frequent flyers on the deadbeat express. In 2002, a judge ruled that Jesse Hilsen, a former psychiatrist on the Upper East Side of Manhattan and manager of the band Kiss, owed his ex-wife Rita $1.9 million. Two years later, Hilsen was arrested. He had spent 10 years on the run to avoid paying child support and $950 a month in alimony.

By the time Rita Hilsen testified against him, in 2005, their children were grown and she had been living in a homeless shelter for 11 years. After spending 16 months in jail, he cut a deal to pay $162,000 to his ex-wife, get out of jail, and, by a miracle, save his medical license. He told the court he would have to pay his debt monthly, out of his earnings as a therapist.

Like, that didn’t happen.

Another New York deadbeat dad, according to the New York City Human Resources Administration, was Dr. David Lawrence Adams, who owed his ex-wife $1.5 million. Dr. Robert Barbati, a gastroenterologist in Florida who was divorced in 2004, was ordered to pay his wife $1.1 million, and $1,500 a month in child support. He failed to appear in court, spent time in jail, got out, etc.

A Canadian plastic surgeon, Dr. Kenneth Dickie, was sentenced to 45 days in jail for contempt of court for refusing to put up a letter of credit to pay past support for his ex-wife and children. After he served his time he went back to the Bahamas, which does not have an extradition treaty on such matters with Canada, with his new wife and two new children.

Of course, more than half of the fathers owing child support are at the opposite end of the economic spectrum, making less than $15,000 a year. And a men’s rights group says that only 4 percent of delinquent child support is owed by fathers who make more than $40,000 a year.

But it can be predicted that however little they earn, their ex-wives and children are doing with less.

What can you do? Some ex-wives listing their exes, and their grievances, on the Ripoff Report, which lists some 28 deadbeat dads this month so far, from all over the country. And another web site, www.delinquentdad.com, is set up specifically to reveal deadbeats. But women’s greatest weapon these days is the Internet. With White Pages and Google, ex-wives can track their exes’ careers, homes, even remarriages. Get out those keyboards, ladies, and start typing.

And of course women should apply to their state enforcement agencies, which have the following options when dealing with a parent who refuses to pay child support or spousal maintenance:

They can seize bank accounts, income tax refunds

They can suspend the deadbeat’s driver’s license

They can deny a passport renewal

They can report unpaid child support to credit agencies

They can suspend professional licenses, as with Dr. Adams in California

They can in some cases garnish wages.

Question: Have you or your state enforcement agency tracked down a particularly recalcitrant father who owed alimony or child support? We’d like to hear your story.