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‘Child' in support case is a granddad - 81-year-old mother says payments are 60 years overdue
Houston Chronicle ^ | April 5, 2010, 6:55AM | MIKE TOLSON

Posted on 04/05/2010 11:28:11 AM PDT by a fool in paradise

Fights over children — who gets custody, how much for child support — are at the heart of any family law court on any given day. The faces change, but the stories and disputes rarely do.

So it is on today's docket in the Los Angeles courtroom of Judge Elia Weinbach. At least on paper. The dispute between Rosemary Douglas and Urban Joseph Grass over back child support seems familiar: She claims he never paid; he says he never knew.

In this case, however, the mom has a head of gray hair and has been collecting Social Security for more than a decade. The father was born in the heart of the Jazz Age, when a fellow named Coolidge resided in the White House. And the “child” in question is that only on some yellowing piece of paper. In real life he is a retired grandfather.

“He was ordered to do something. He didn't do it,” said the 81-year-old Douglas. “He didn't challenge it, not legally anyway. I'd always thought about this. It was never far from my mind. Finally I decided, why not? Why not try one more time?”

The story began in 1950. Douglas got pregnant and was not married. She insists Grass was the father and that he wanted nothing to do with her. After her son Gerald was born, she said she went to court to get an order for child support because she had no alternative.

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TOPICS: Society; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: childsupport; deadbeatdad; lawsuit; napl; tortreform
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To: Lady Jag

Kootchie kootchie koo!


21 posted on 04/05/2010 3:42:09 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (FUBO! FUNP! FUHR! FUBS!)
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To: Terry Mross

“Now the decree states which parent can claim the child as a tax dependent. When I got divorced it was “whoever spends the most money”.

You were fortunate. In Texas, hubby sent the child support, had the children most of the time at our house, and did not get to claim children as dependents - this was the 1990’s.


22 posted on 04/05/2010 4:06:22 PM PDT by texteacher
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To: iowamark

“Why would a mother “give up” on recovering child support for her child when the alleged father is a LTC in the Air Force?”

The “kid” in question is the one that just retired from the Air Force as a LTC. The “father’s” name is Urban.

The years went by. Douglas said she tried again through private attorneys to find him and get the support payment when Gerald was about 5 or 6 years old, then gave up. She married and had two more children. She worked for many years managing medical groups before retiring. Gerald spent 32 years in the Air Force and recently retired as a lieutenant colonel, she said.


23 posted on 04/05/2010 5:26:39 PM PDT by MissouriConservative (Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods. - H. L Mencken)
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To: Slings and Arrows

Our kids can haz a slepe ovur! Your place!!


24 posted on 04/05/2010 7:50:04 PM PDT by TheOldLady (CLKD: Commie Loon Kenyan Dictator)
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To: TheOldLady

That’s a sleepover I wouldn’t mind hosting.


25 posted on 04/05/2010 8:44:58 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (FUBO! FUNP! FUHR! FUBS!)
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To: Slings and Arrows

Expect a shipment of four cat carriers in the next day or two. Be nice to my Rocket, and watch out for Miss Hissy Slashy. Lucas and Shadow are all right, though.


26 posted on 04/05/2010 9:00:51 PM PDT by TheOldLady (CLKD: Commie Loon Kenyan Dictator)
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To: texteacher

Same think happened to me after the first two years. Plus I had to pay back taxes for dependents not allowed for the first two.


27 posted on 04/06/2010 10:07:32 AM PDT by Terry Mross (Founding Fathers.....grave....rolling over.)
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To: TheOldLady
"Expect a shipment of four cat carriers in the next day or two."


28 posted on 04/26/2010 9:17:09 AM PDT by Rebelbase (Don't think of work as 5 days on, 2 days off. Instead think 4 nights on, 3 off.)
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To: Rebelbase

You picked a bad time to send me this very sick “joke” because I just found out that my favorite cat of all time is dying of kidney disease.

So thanks a lot for that you *******.


29 posted on 04/26/2010 12:24:53 PM PDT by TheOldLady (Free Republic needs monthly donors. Pony up and end FReepathons forever!)
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