Posted on 10/28/2014 8:54:32 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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The State of Michigan is ordering a Detroit man to pay tens of thousands of dollars, or go to prison. The reason? He owes back child support for a child that everyone agrees is not his.
"I feel like I’m standing in front of a brick wall with nowhere to go," said Carnell Alexander.
He says he learned about the paternity case against him during a traffic stop in Detroit in the early 90s. The officer told him he is a deadbeat dad, there was a warrant out for his arrest.
“I knew I didn’t have a child, so I was kind of blown back,” said Alexander.
The state said he fathered a child in 1987, and ignored a court order to pay up. It was the first Carnell had heard of the court order. He'd never even met the child.
“And when you were telling them in court – that it was not my child?" "They told me it was too late to get a DNA test," said Alexander.
It also was not easy to get a DNA test. Alexander didn't know where the woman was that had claimed he fathered a child. He only had an 8th-grade education, off-and-on employment at the time, and no money to hire help....
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Yes because it is a criminal enterprise run by the government.
What’s worse than owing $30,000 in back child support?
Owing $30,000 in back child support & you live in Detroit...
That’s because MI wants to show record numbers for both child support and catching up back cases. I don’t know if they still do it, but they used to post a list of deadbeat dads in every sunday paper.
Rule 308 is the only way to remedy this.
Gibbs? Is that you?
I don’t get the local lib paper.
They can show there crap all hey want still does not make it right.
If the process server did it once, did he do it in other cases? My guess is yes. Who else was victimized by this process server?
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