[Raymond Hendrix]

Thanks for posting this. My brother pays $300 per month for the rest of his life for kids that are over 20. This is a lifetime interest payment made to the state of California. Not one penny goes to past due child support. He lives in his car in order to keep the payments up. I guess they would call him a dead beat dad.

[Centurion2000]

My brother pays $300 per month for the rest of his life for kids that are over 20. This is a lifetime interest payment made to the state of California.

What is this ???

[martin gibson]

Not one penny goes to past due child support. He lives in his car in order to keep the payments up.

Wow...It's almost like the state had some kind of vested interest in creating a permanent slave caste out of white males during their peak earning years...

[Kevin Curry]

He lives in his car in order to keep the payments up. I guess they would call him a dead beat dad.

Maybe he needs to find a better job, qualify himself for better pay. He could start a business and build it, become wealthy through hard work.

But then he couldn't feel sorry for himself, mope, and suck his thumb in a car somewhere.

This man is a victim because he chooses to be.

[Don Joe]

"Thanks for posting this. My brother pays $300 per month for the rest of his life for kids that are over 20. This is a lifetime interest payment made to the state of California. Not one penny goes to past due child support. He lives in his car in order to keep the payments up. I guess they would call him a dead beat dad."

In the last century, they used the word "kulak". Stalin was more merciful, though. He simply had them killed, instead of sentencing them to life at hard labor.

[Poohbah]

Thanks for posting this. My brother pays $300 per month for the rest of his life for kids that are over 20. This is a lifetime interest payment made to the state of California. Not one penny goes to past due child support. He lives in his car in order to keep the payments up. I guess they would call him a dead beat dad.

Having to pay $300 per month forces him to live in a car? Sounds like your brother isn't trying very hard to pay up.

Just how long did your brother not pay support? A $300 monthly interest payment translates to $3,600 a year. At 10% (I checked--that's the CA interest rate on overdue support), that's $36,000 in arrears.

Finally, why didn't he pay?

[gaffin]

And could it be that the State of California paid welfare or some other form of child support to your brothers kids and their mother because he didn't pay child support?

[Melas]

Why would you let your brother live in a car?

[VOA]

My brother pays $300 per month for the rest of his life for kids that are over 20.
This is a lifetime interest payment made to the state of California.

Just a suggestion.
Your brother needs to get all his documentation/timeline of his case
together and then call into The Al Rantel Show on KABC radio 790AM in Los Angeles (www.kabc.com).

Rantel occassionally has Glen Sacks (sp?) as a guest...he writes about mens issues
including the insanity of child support, etc.

This is a sad war, but currently there is legislative work afoot to end the
common-law presumption of paternity and default assignment of child-support
to non-fathers.
This is no small feat in a state crawling with Gloria Allred-type lawyers.
It's a sadly small start...but maybe moving things in the right direction.