Posted on 06/09/2021 9:17:49 AM PDT by 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.
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If there are 80k pennies, there’s a chance that one of them could be of significant numismatic value.
In a sane world, that's what would happen. Unfortunately, legal father status might have more to do with whose name is on the birth certificate.
Also, once I watched a news program on the following story: A man's wife cheated and bore the other man's child. The man divorced his wife. Unfortunately, as per his state's laws, the husband of a woman who gives birth is legally that child's father. So, he ended up on the hook for child support.
I just don’t understand the Seinfeld fetish.
do I gotta send kramer over to beat you with a sack of pennies?
IMHO... the dad did a childish, selfish act that ensured his children feel like the trash he treated them as. Whether there were issues with the mom or not.. he should have thought about HIS kids and NOT his “isn’t this a funny F you” to his ex.
Imagine if I posted memes of wisdom from Hop Sing or Hey Boy?
My parents divorced quite amicably and I grew up never hearing phrases like "child support" or "custody" or "weekend visits". They encouraged my relationship with each other and even each other's new spouses. I wound up living with my father more than my mother, but visiting my mother a lot more than just every other weekend. There were times my father would drop me off at my mother's and my step-father would holler out to my father to come in for a visit and drink a beer. When my mother would take me clothes shopping every year there would come a point where she'd make sure I'd see the cash in her billfold and tell me that my father gave that money because he loved me. Then I'd get home ("home" being my father's house) and my father would tell me that my mother took me clothes shopping because she loves me.
Then I grew up, got married, had a couple of kids, and wound up divorced simply because I refused to move to live in whatever town my in-laws moved to every time they moved. My ex decided that was reason for divorce and that divorce meant total war. I can sing the same song many men sing about having to go to court to have visits with my kids, my kids being taught I send no child support, that I'm abusive, that I'm everything but a Democrat voter. Sometimes I'd counter it with proof that they were told lies. But usually I'd change the subject to make the visit enjoyable.
Then I got custody and my ex had to pay child support. Trust me, men don't get half as mad about that as women do, even though they rarely have to pay half as much as men. I thought my ex fussed before, I hadn't seen nuthin' yet.
One of the requirements I had for a new wife is that she didn't get into all of the drama and that she encourages love even when ex's don't. So the kids in our blended family got to focus on loving God and others most days and let the drama teachings occur only in the limited times they're with their other biological parents (and unfortunately sometimes grandparents). Even when I had to file motions to get the court to force my ex to pay child support (including things like garnishing tax refunds), my kids never heard about it from me. Eventually each one of the kids reached an age where they realized the drama they heard from their other biological parents was as much BS as when Democrats say they'll raise taxes on only the rich. They also apologized for believing evil things about us and promised to do like my wife and I do. I've heard each one of them on separate occasions during visit swaps when their biological parent (either my ex-wife or my wife's ex-husband) would stir up drama and the kid would tell them they didn't want to hear any of that immature bullcrap because they're ready for a visit, not drama. And all of the kids grew up having an eye for people like me or my wife (the son/step-son wanting a woman like my wife, while daughter/step-daughter wanting a man like me). I truly believe it was because doing things God's way first leads to God blessing you so others, especially your kids, can see how will it works putting Him first.
Because I represented myself in court from the point I won until the kids were grown, I had to get into the ins and outs of how child support is calculated. Before that I wasted way too much money going broke paying for attorneys to pretend to represent me but not really.
Buried in the article is the line She didn’t know who it was until he shouted, ‘It’s your final child support payment.”
So she didn’t even recognize the father of her kids? He might or might not have been an ass, but if the ex-wife didn’t even recognize him at first, she had obviously shut him out of the kids’ lives.
So, mom gets to take a charity credit on her taxes since she laid claim to it. Why wasn’t it 18 year old Ashley’s money?
ya lost me pal
Yes and most are narcissists…
So he may have done this only to find out that it does not count.
Friend of ours had a child support order. When he lost his job and fell behind the police arrested him. His ex went to court to ask that the back support be forgiven and the child support be suspended until he could get a new job.
She was told that it was none of her business, it was the state who ordered the support and by gum he would pay.
End result was that she gave him the money to pay the back support so he could get out of jail.
The world of family court is an odd place.
Good advice…good on you…all of us aren’t that mature…no wonder men aren’t marrying any more…don’t blame them…kids are taken by mom and court…you pay for it…kids still hate you many times…mom enjoys the damage and hurt she has inflicted under the umbrella of law…
“ There us NEVER a reason for a man to hit a female”
So, if a daughter-of-Obama tries to robs a man a gunpoint, he’s not allowed to defend himself?
And I suppose women never lie about rape, too, in your world. So you think Trump is a rapist.
Wow you’re only 50 or so posts late to an immediate self correction on the post right below the post you are nit picking.
You should get a job working for CNN.
There are two sides to every story.
For all we know, the wife was a manipulator who turned the two children against the father.
Now that the father has no more child support payments to make, there should not be any more childish antics. The father needs to live his life as if the wife and kids are dead. Move on.
Check post 15.
Just guessing here: A judge would not have looked fondly on this guy's stunt. The ex-wife probably went to court, and the judge probably ruled that pennies dumped on the lawn wouldn't be considered his support payment. Then the guy probably had to write an $800 check.
Again, just a guess...
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