Father Sentenced To 6 Months In Jail For Paying Too Much Child Support

[Blewvane]

Sounds like the ex has been planning this for a while.

[pinkjen]

stupidest judge ever

[Photoplay]

[invertigo]

Is this a joke?
So many men abandon their kids after a messy divorce and just skip town to start over with a new family. My dad refused to be on my birth certificate because it meant he'd be liable to pay child support even though my parents were never married. I'm not even sure where is now. =(

Yet this guy is getting punished for loving his child enough to be there for his son, regardless of any issues with his EX...

[FNAL]

Where is the balance of power when it comes to the judicial system? I'm sure we aren't hearing all of the story either but from what I can see, the judge should be jailed.

[Metal Mike]

Just another judge that needs to be shot. So what else is new?

[Kelseecat65]

Originally Posted by Metal Mike

Just another judge that needs to be shot. So what else is new?

Disbarred is more like it

[cupcake725]

http://www.snopes.com/politics/crime/childsupport.asp

My blood was boiling when I read that, but there HAD to be more - "However, available court records indicate that Hall was straightforwardly held in contempt of court for failure to pay child support in a case which had a motion for contempt dating back to April 2013 (and a court document briefly glimpsed in the Houston television news report about the case shown above displays a header indicating Hall was indeed held in contempt for "for failure to pay child support"). The information presented in news accounts indicating that Hall owed nearly $3,000 in back child support and that the child's mother had incurred $3,000 in attorney's fees trying enforce their court agreement suggest that this was an long-running and/or ongoing support issue rather than a sudden and recent one.

Nothing presented in the original KRIV-TV news report on this case actually stated that Hall "overpaid" child support; it quite clearly said that he paid nearly $3,000 in "back child support," indicating that he was paying an amount already past due (even if he was previously unaware he owed it), not overpaying an amount he didn't yet owe. (Under Texas law, for an obligor to avoid contempt charges in a child support case, he must be current on all child support obligations at the time of the enforcement hearing, not just those originally pled in the motion to enforce.)

Clifford Hall may have suffered an injustice (it's not possible to make that determination without more information on the case, since news accounts have so far presented only his side of the story), but nothing in the limited information presented about this case so far — other than catchy headlines and sensationalized re-reporting of the original story — supports the interpretation that Clifford Hall was "sentenced for paying too much child support."

She is still a cunt.

[Brometheus]

maybe the mother is with the judge..

[Karma]

Ridiculous. Just so stupid. Penalize a father for paying TOO MUCH!!! And supporting his child more than the courts deem necessary! Fucked up world.