Experts say the recession and drug abuse are causing more mothers to miss out on child support payments than ever before in Jefferson County. And because of that, thousands of kids are not getting the financial help they need leading to the growing problem of deadbeat moms.
When it comes to deadbeat parents, the child support division says their staff of 200 people faces a tough challenge trying to collect millions of dollars.
Many of the deadbeat parents on a public list haven't paid a dime in 10 years.
It could be a while before this payment window at the child support office sees any cash from thousands of deadbeat mothers in Jefferson County.
Mothers we're told who have been delinquent on their child support for years.
But why?
Angela Anton, Assistant Director Child Support Division said, “instead of being deadbeats, they're more dead broke from the state of the economy and the issues with drug and alcohol abuse."
In fact, the Child Support Division's basement is filled with thousands of files.
They say out of roughly 61,000 active cases nearly 10% are deadbeat moms which equals hundreds of thousands of dollars for the division to collect.
Part of the solution is an annual list made available to the public.
Over 4 years, it helped collect roughly $2 million in child support.
It has the top 1000 deadbeat parents and WHAS11 counted at least 20 women.
Including Adrian Ellis at nearly $40,000, Shanna Adams at $22,000 plus and Nicole Birdsong who owes more than $27,000.
We knocked on doors of the last known address for each woman.
None of them were home.
Birdsong listed her residence as The Healing Place on Broadway which was an old location.
So we went to the new building and folks there told us Birdsong is no longer staying with them.
"It's a real good possibility that she knew she had it hanging over her head and was worried about it and so decided to get help," said Pam Scott at the Healing Place.
Family Rights Lawyer Louis Winner tells us another part of the problem.
Many of his male clients don't want to ask for child support from women.
Winner said, "it becomes a little more difficult for the father to say you know what, I need to go after and get child support because it's the right thing to do and it costs money to raise children."
The division says they're more than willing to set up payment plans with any mom or dad who's avoided child support.
If not, they tell us it can be punished by jail time and heavy fines.
See the List: 2009 Delinquent Child Support Obligors
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9 comments:
My ex husband made 28.00 an hour and got himself into credit card debt of 55,000.00 dollars. I have never made more than 8.50 an hour, he still has health care. I don't have health care. Women & Men are not equal and should not be treated equally. I might as well be homeless if the second ex decides to file against me. This is totally discriminating --- to call some one a deadbeat should be against the law. Just like Fat discrimination. My second ex makes 17.00 an hour and has a 401k and a health insurance plan and an ira. I'm alone and I am living as a squatter. I don't do drugs or drink. I'm a normal mom who was used and abused and thrown out in the cold and my exes have the right to stalk and taunt and tease me all they want to.
Oh, this little gem will be fun.
Congrats on your ex for his earnings, he's worked hard for it. I like your ex already! He's working and raising his kids! Of course you don't earn what he has, you're lazy! Read your own post! It is full of "Feel sorry for me" drivel.
You owe child support to TWO exes? I am beginning to understand your problem more now. I also noticed how you said you were USED and ABUSED, the Y2K buzzwords for women who want sympathy and want to justify breaking up their families.
Men and women aren't equal YOU SAY? Hmm, ok, so, why are you a squatter? Did you speak out of turn? I am blinking in disbelief!
As I read the entirety of your drivel, it is clear that you ARE a deadbeat mother, you deserve the worst horrors that happen in jail. Skip out on your family, skip out on your financial obligations to them, suffer terror in jail. You've earned it!
You also commented that you're a "Normal Mom", but I must comment NOT SO! Normal mothers don't skip out on their kids, whereas, you are a pimple on the butt of humanity. A life support system for a vagina that bears no responsibility for what flops or plops out of you. It's people like you who suck dry the government tit.
Advice, close your legs! If you can't abide your marriage vows, STOP SCREWING! Seriously! Are you a dog in heat who will shag in my front yard with any randy stiffy that happens by? Close your legs!
How many kids do you have, anyway? Advice! It's a vagina NOT a clown car! You don't have to single handedly make up for the death told of small pox!
Yes, your exes do have a right to "stalk" you (And how do they do this? *LAUGHING* another female buzzword), to taunt you and to tease you, you FAIL AT LIFE! You FAIL as a mother! You FAIL as a wife! In essence, there isn't one redeeming thing about you!
You should be jailed! In a cage! In the middle of town so society can throw rotten produce at you, the DEADBEAT MOM! We should scorn you! We should mock you! You should cry and snivel, you've earned it!
That was AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!! Hit nail on head!!!!!
I know it's been awhile but you are awesome for responding to the dead beat mom comment!! HAHA! I want to copy it and email it to my step son's bio mom.
That was a great response! Love it! I need this for my husbands ex as well she is a deadbeat mom!
MAKING IT CLEAR that this FB page http://www.facebook.com/DEADBEATSonBlast?ref=hl is for ALL deadbeats. Moms, Dads & grandparents who support/enable the deadbeat they raised.
Although over 2 years old, the post is hilarious and said pretty much everything I was thinking when I read that post. One question I do have is, if she is a "homeless squatter" and has all these problems, whose computer is she on? Sounds like she needs to get a grip, a job, and some education. I was in an abusive first marriage, was smart enough not have the 4 children I desperately wanted, and got out. I worked 2 and 3 jobs, sent myself to college, slept 2 hours a day for over a year to complete my college, AND still graduated with honors - so don't cry to me about your hard life. I could tell you stories about my life that would make a sociopath cry, so you get no sympathy from me. My current, wonderful, loving husband's ex was a deadbeat mom and his daughter is following in her mother's footsteps, much to our chagrin. I have no sympathy for her either. She has been given more than any one adult child should have been handed and yet, somehow, nothing is ever big enough, good enough, long enough, wide enough, etc. Everything - the drug use, arrests, changing men like underwear, losing the child and all the visitation, not paying support - ALL OF IT is someone else's fault. Whatever. Until you get your crap together I will make it my mission in life to make sure she nor her sorry excuse of a mother ever get access to that precious child to hurt her more than they already have.
Deadbeat Mom, Misty Strong aka Misty Daniels aka Misty Dawn Daniels aka Misty Dawn Strong aka Misty Dawn Daniels Strong. She now resides in the Hoquiam, WA or Aberdeen, WA area and is on the prowl looking for more victims. Protect yourself!
She preys upon men on the internet to impregnate her, so she can trap them. She has 3 children by 3 different fathers. She has abused, abandoned and neglected at least her first two, and actually led another family to believe her first child belonged to them for 2 years, knowing all well that child did not belong to them. Misty Dawn Daniels Strong, formerly of Denton, TX, Norman, OK, Oklahoma City, OK, Enid, OK, Blue Ridge, GA, Richmond Hill, GA, Hinesville, GA, Ft. Stewart, GA, El Paso, TX, Ft. Bliss, TX and the list goes on! As you can see, she's had many addresses and always lives off someone else, a TOTAL LOSER!! She abandoned her first child as an infant, and abandoned her second child at birth. That child's father is an illegal Mexican.
Her last victim got his taxes garnished for her child support, because she never paid it, and is now far behind again, because he's not around to get garnished anymore. She got pregnant by him while he was married to another woman and they had three children together. That victim divorced that wife with the three kids and married this deadbeat after they had a child together. He kicked her to the curb when he got tired of her sponging off him, and she's now on the prowl for another victim.
BEWARE OF THIS PREDATOR!!
www.facebook.com/mistydawn1081
wow...i have a deadbeat mom.....no payment in 18 months, no calls in weeks, she's a oxycodine junky, and I just found out she's in Shelbyville, Indiana....Names: Melissa Jill Rutherford..age 42 born 6/13/71 ...If you know her or have seen her please tell her to call her son....
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