Mother, daughter donate 80,000 'child support' pennies dumped outside home

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[mylife]

One Richmond family got a shocking delivery last month when 80,000 pennies were dumped on their front lawn. Now, they're using the money to help those in need.

"I just turned 18. When I was in the middle of class, my dad came by. He had rented a trailer," Avery Sanford, a Deep Run High School senior, said. "He pulled up in front of the house and turned the trailer on so it dumped out all the pennies on the grass and my mom came out and was like, 'What are you dumping in my yard?' She didn't know who it was until he shouted, 'It's your final child support payment."

The act had an impact on the teenager.

"It's not just my mom he's trying to embarrass, it's also me and my sister and it's upsetting that he didn't consider that before he did that," Sanford said.

Once the pennies were picked up, Sanford and her mom decided to turn a bad situation into a positive one.

Every penny of Avery's last child support payment will be donated to Safe Harbor, a domestic abuse center.

"Turning around and donating that money to moms and children in need, I feel like that really turns this situation into a positive. You can learn from it," Avery said.

[mylife]

my 2 cents? get over yourselves

[Bulwyf]

Two sides to every story, who knows how he was provoked or what not. I can’t say I’d do this, they’ve banned pennies in Canada anyways, but I can see the anger a lot of fathers have after being alienated and cut out from the kids and still paying.

[a fool in paradise]

“Turning around and donating that money to moms and children in need,”

So they didn’t need the support money?

[a fool in paradise]

“Turning around and donating that money to moms and children in need,”

So they didn’t need the support money?

[Jewbacca]

Childish on the man’s part.

But there are two sides to every story.

My sister was physically abused by her husband. Having lived with my sister, however, I knew she was an insufferable bitch who like to bait (and hit) men into provoking a response, including me. I punched her square in the face when I was 12, and she 18 after she slapped me because I wouldn’t do what she wanted.

Anyway, happy for the man he never has to deal with the wife and children again.

And vice versa.

Move along.

[ronniesgal]

he sounds like a douchecanoe.

[Tell It Right]

At least with this memory it'll be hard for the mother to convince the now grown child that her father never paid child support.

Unless the daughter is a libtard and is trained to ignore the evidence of her own eyes.

[Seruzawa]

$800 doesn’t go very far.

[Lurkinanloomin]

This guy copied the pennies in the driveway from a few months ago over a different issue.

[Robert DeLong]

That was my thought.

[mylife]

they all sound like douchecanoes

[mylife]

[Jewbacca]

$8,000

[ASA Vet]

Some situations are even worse. I have an entitled niece who conned a sucker into marriage. She wanted another child. She had two previously from different men, who she did not marry.

She conned him into letting her go the artificial insemination route. While she was pregnant, she decided that she didn't like him, so filed for divorce.

She had the baby, and had his name put on the birth certificate. Then she took him to court and was awarded child support for the girl until she turns 18. The girl is 16 now and the poor guy has two more years to pay, for a child who isn't his, and who he has never seen.

The girl is a wonderful person though.

[Jewbacca]

Sorry, you’re correct.

[ronniesgal]

well, it’s not my nature to put my business on the news, so in that sense, I agree.
NOBODY needed to know this happened.

[Persevero]

Some terrible women use the child support money for frivolous things.

I can see doing this with alimony in some situations.

But the guy is an a**. Those are his kids. He obviously did not consider the effect this tantrum would have on them. Cruel. It is not their fault if there is a fault at all.

If he was my dad I’d hate him.

[HollyB]

It’s not ‘support’ money. It’s not welfare. it’s his children and he’s equally responsible for them.

[Seruzawa]

I had to use a calculator to verify it. You’d probably do better melting them down and pulling the copper out.

[Tell It Right]

"$800 doesn’t go very far."

Two things:

I believe this is Richmond, VA. Unless they live in an expensive area for that part of the country, that $800 goes further there than in much of the rest of the country.

The other thing is that in most states the child support obligation is calculated as though the non-custodial parent (almost always the father) doesn't shoulder the entire financial burden of raising the kid. The custodial parent does as well. And that's not getting into paying things like health insurance too.

So if the mother makes half as much as the father, and if for their combined income it's determined (according to their state's law in the algorithm for calculating child support based on their incomes) that the combined financial obligation is $1,500 per month including health insurance. That means the father's obligation is $1,000 while the mother's is $500 (because he makes twice as much as she does). But if $200 per month of his health insurance costs are to cover the daughter, that means he gives another $800 to the mother to count as him covering his $1,000 portion of the overall financial burden while the mother comes up with the other $500 per month as part of paying her normal everyday expenses. That $500 burden of the mother never changes hands in an official capacity as child support. It's just assumed it's added into everyday costs like spending more at the grocery store for having an extra mouth to feed, more in utilities, etc.

So in other words, it's not like anybody said $800/month is the only financial burden there is to raising a kid (your "$800 doesn't go very far"). Child support should always be perceived as being only part of the complete burden.