I spent an afternoon in jail for non support of a child that wasn't mine back in the late 80s. Cost me attorney fees but that was the end of it.
Michigan legislative action thread
Yawn. Happens EVERY day.
Follow up:
Detroit man turns himself in after not paying child support for a child that is not his
http://www.wxyz.com/news/region/detroit/detroit-man-turns-himself-in-after-not-paying-child-support-fo-a-child-that-is-not-his
23JAN2015
DETROIT (WXYZ) - The state told a Detroit man: Pay child support for a kid that is not yours or go to jail! On Friday, 7 Action News went with him as he turned himself in at the Frank Murphy Hall of Justice.
“I stayed up all night. Couldn’t sleep thinking about it,” said Carnell Alexander.
Carnell says no matter what the state orders, he won’t pay child support for a child he doesn’t know and that DNA tests prove isn’t his.
“I haven’t even had a chance to speak to him except for one time when we took a DNA test,” said Carnell.
This is a case that started in the late eighties. An ex-girlfriend of Carnell’s had a baby. She needed help providing for the child. She was told that in order to get welfare she had to name a dad on paperwork. She put down Carnell’s name.
The state then started a paternity case against Carnell to collect money for the assistance provided.
A process server turned in paperwork saying Carnell was given notice at a house in Highland Park. It is something the Michigan Department of Corrections says is impossible. At the time, Carnell was incarcerated for a crime he committed as a young man.
Carnell says he would find out about the paternity action in 1991 when he was arrested for being a deadbeat dad during a traffic stop.
He has been fighting it since.
“I’m almost homeless. I’m almost in jail. I am out of work. My money is threatened to be taken,” said Carnell.
“I’m scared. I’ve been before this judge before, I don’t know what’s going to happen.”
This time he wasn’t alone. He had Attorney Cherika Harris representing him. She volunteered to represent him pro-bono after seeing his story on 7 Action News.
The judge said he will not go to jail for now. She put the case on hold until next month so Attorney Harris could have a chance to argue that he should not be responsible for the child support bill.
“I thank you,” Carnell Alexander told us for telling his story. “Thank you Ms. Harris.”
Carnell says he is not only worried about how this impacts him. He says something needs to be changed so that men who are wrongfully named fathers are protected.
“We can be defaulted into being a father of a child that is not ours. I don’t understand the law, but we do have that law in place,“ said Carnell.
The law is “whatever”.
Sounds about right. The only evidence needed is the woman naming the man as the father. In our PC society, that is all that matters.
Hell, when I look at my tax bill each year I see I'm the default father of a bunch of kids that I can't even claim as dependents.
Shut up and pay.
If only she named the father as Bill Clinton.
This is one of those cases that you would think Law Firms would jump at, SUE Everyone involved PERSONALLY and BANKRUPT ALL OF THEM.
18 U.S. Code § 242 - Deprivation of rights under color of law
http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/242
http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/42/1983
42 U.S. Code § 1983 - Civil action for deprivation of rights
Every person who, under color of any statute, ordinance, regulation, custom, or usage, of any State or Territory or the District of Columbia, subjects, or causes to be subjected, any citizen of the United States or other person within the jurisdiction thereof to the deprivation of any rights, privileges, or immunities secured by the Constitution and laws, shall be liable to the party injured in an action at law, suit in equity, or other proper proceeding for redress, except that in any action brought against a judicial officer for an act or omission taken in such officer’s judicial capacity, injunctive relief shall not be granted unless a declaratory decree was violated or declaratory relief was unavailable. For the purposes of this section, any Act of Congress applicable exclusively to the District of Columbia shall be considered to be a statute of the District of Columbia.
The woman needs to be in prison for fraud.
My name is Friday. I carry a badge.
The boss is Captain Spelling. My partner
Sgt. Gannon and I were working the sperm
patrol out of South Division when....
That is how I feel every year when I go to the school tax office and pay for the education costs (ISD School Tax) for other people’s children.
When will these women start naming bill clinton and getting a bonus check in the mail
some chick should list Barry Seotoro as the father... that’d get interesting
Yeah. Right.
A few years ago, I spent a year as a volunteer with a Family and Child Abuse agency. I was able to attend a lot of informative training with professional social workers, and I learned a lot of "inside info".
It is common knowledge that about 30% (Yes - THIRTY PERCENT!) of all child support in the US is being paid by men who are NOT the fathers.
The courts don't care. The agencies just want the money. And the people who run the agencies are generally the type who believe that all MEN are guilty of something, and must be punished.
Besides, the actual fathers probably have a lower income than the "named" father (if any income at all), so it's financially desirable to simply "choose" a guy with a job.
This ‘mom’ defrauded the State for $30 large. Why is she not in prison?
Try not reporting income worth $30,000 in income taxes owed, and see if you don’t end up in prison.
They’re prosecuting the wrong person.
This poor sap can’t even appeal to a jury for nullification, as it is ‘Family Court’ and there are no Jury Trials.
Guilty until Proven Dead.
