Posted on 05/16/2012 9:23:25 AM PDT by SmithL
A judge has declared San Francisco Fire Chief Joanne Hayes-White a deadbeat divorcee and ordered the city to start garnisheeing $3,300 a month from her paycheck for spousal support to her ex-husband.
Hayes-White says she stopped paying support about 14 months ago, after an incident in which her ex-hubby, Robert "Sean" White, grabbed and choked one of their sons while in a booze-fueled rage.
In December, he pleaded no contest in San Mateo County Superior Court to a misdemeanor charge of child endangerment and cruelty. He is serving his sentence on a county sheriff's work detail and living in a rehab house.
Last week, White went to San Francisco Superior Court demanding that the chief resume the spousal support she was ordered to pay when the couple divorced in 2009.
On Friday, Judge Ron Albers signed an order to start deducting the payments from her $302,000 annual salary, though it does not appear to cover the more than $40,000 in backlogged payments.
White's attorney, Bradley Kass, did not return calls for comment.
The support scuffle is the latest twist in the couple's family drama.
In 2005, White - a first cousin of the late Dan White - called 911 and accused his wife of hitting him on the head twice with a pint glass in their kitchen in San Francisco. Hayes-White denied the accusations, and he recanted.
(No charges were ever filed - something supporters of suspended Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi have pointed to in arguing that prosecutors overreached in charging him for what they see as a similar set of circumstances.)
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Ya, but...this whole story sounds like a soap opera.
You just can’t make this stuff up!
Remember when Lee Marvin successfully defeated an alimony claim from his girlfriend?
I see here an outrage and a surprise.
The Outrage: The S.F. Fire Chief is a woman and is paid $300K.
(I wonder if she ever carried a hose up a ladder and entered a burning building.)
The Surprise: She once married a man!
LOL! Good points, both.
A hyphenated last name should be a warning.
14 years from firefighter to chief! Wow, I'll bet she has the genuine respect of the real firefighters...
Here your level of perversion determines your public "servant" salary and level of Rat power and protection.
It is truly Bizarro World and 1984 rolled into one.
I was surprised, I expected a same sex couple.
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