Harris: Family Living Off His Teacher Salary, Earnings As Part-Time Tutor
POSTED: 11:10 a.m. CDT October 5, 2002
UPDATED: 11:22 a.m. CDT October 5, 2002
CENTER POINT, Ala. -- The parents of Alabama's first sextuplets are on the brink of losing their home in suburban Birmingham to mortgage foreclosure as financial woes have multiplied since the newborns arrived.
The sextuplets -- two girls and four boys -- were born July 7 to Diamond Harris and husband Christopher Harris.
Relatives have donated $1,440 toward the $5,000 in delinquent house payments to avoid a foreclosure sale set for Monday.
The Harrises were notified Sept. 12 that the Center Point home would be sold on the steps of the Jefferson County Courthouse.
The family lawyer, Lawrence Cooper, said the Harrises were more than $5,000 behind on payments to CitiMortgage Inc., but the relatives' donations stalled the sale for now.
Harris said the family has been living off his teacher salary and earnings as a part-time tutor. His wife had worked as a licensed practical nurse but had to quit last winter because of pregnancy complications.
At one point, he says, she nearly died. Efforts to reach CitiMortgage were unsuccessful.