Man picks prison over paying support

Carl H. Burrows, 32, of Deposit, was arraigned on a sealed indictment in Delaware County Court on June 9.
Burrows pleaded guilty to a felony count of first-degree nonsupport of a child, and Delaware County Judge Carl Becker sentenced Burrows to one-to-three years in prison.
"(Burrows) was adamant that he wasn't going to pay," Vredenburgh said.
The case is the first felony prosecution in Delaware County under the  Deadbeat Dad' legislation that was passed in New York in the mid-1990s, Vredenburgh said.
Vredenburgh said a defendant can only be prosecuted under the felony statute if they have already been convicted of second-degree nonsupport of a child, a class A misdemeanor.
Burrows pleaded guilty to the misdemeanor level charge in Delhi Town Court on March 5 and was sentenced to three years of probation. He was also required to pay $52 a week in child-support payments and continue until the $39,000 he owed in back support is paid.
On May 27, Burrows was arrested for a violation of probation for not making any payments.
Burrows' attorney, Christopher Wilson of Oneonta, refused Thursday to comment on the case.
Laurie Schmitz, the mother of Burrows' 13-year-old daughter, Mia Burrows, said it was "a huge relief to know that something has finally happened."
Schmitz, 32, of New Smyrna Beach, Fla., said Thursday that she has known Burrows since she was about 12 years old; she was 18 when she had Mia.
Schmitz moved to Florida when Mia was a year old. She said Burrows came to Florida when Mia was 2 or 3, staying for a month, and it was the last time he saw her.
Schmitz said she sent Mia's school pictures to Burrows' family every year and occasionally called him, but he never made any effort to see his daughter or communicate with her.
"You can't force someone to be a father when they don't want to," Schmitz said.
Schmitz said she tried for years to collect child support from Burrows, but the last time she received any was in 2005, when he was ordered to pay $3,900 or go to jail. She said the original child-support order was issued in 1996 and required him to pay $28 per week. He can not pay $28 dollars a week? So this man loose days weeks and month even years of his life simply because he refuse to pay child support. Now he has a felony on his record limiting him on what kind of job he could get in his life time.
Schmitz credits Jeffrey Bowie, a Delaware County Social Services investigator, with pursuing her case against Burrows.
"They spent hours looking for him," Schmitz said. "I have gone to New York three times for court appearances, but he never showed up."
Schmitz said Delaware County paid to fly her from Florida to testify before the grand jury.
"It only took the grand jury about 30 seconds to indict him," Schmitz said. "It was really very emotional for me."
Schmitz said she hopes her victory will encourage other mothers to fight for their child's right to support.
"There are a lot of people out there that will not fight it because they don't know how to pursue it," Schmitz said. "Let this be a lesson that it can be done."
Schmitz said she doesn't expect to recover all of the money her daughter is entitled to.
"I've become immune to the fact that he is never going to pay _ but why should he be out and about making money and enjoying himself?" she asked.
Schmitz said that if Burrows gets out of prison and fails to make payments, she intends to pursue having him charged and arrested again. Hell has no fury like a scorn women... I understand now!!!
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Mc Grady ordered to pay $54,000 in child support

Basketball star Tracy McGrady of the Houston Rockets must pay a Bradenton woman $54,156 a year in child support for their daughter, plus insurance and tuition, a Sarasota County circuit judge ruled. The amount is far less than the $204,000 a year that Pearl Vega, 36, had argued would be more in line with McGrady's $21.6 million annual income and give their child a lifestyle more equal to that of McGrady's other children.

Women seem to think that since they had a baby by a star it intitles them to the stars money claiming that the child should live as the star lives. This is just simple logic that must be considered that if the child lives at a certain life style so must the parent!
The Circuit Judge Donna Berlin ruled that Vega had overstated the child's needs and has "used child support to enhance her personal lifestyle and that of her other two children."
"It is inappropriate for Ms. Vega to use child support as a means to further her education when she chooses to attend college as a full-time student and expect Mr. McGrady to pay for tuition, a full-time nanny and other domestic help," Berlin wrote in the decision. Now this makes sense, although a large majority of child support judges don't follow this thinking. Maybe a book should be written for judges called "Decision making For Dummies involving Child Support issues"

Vega's attorney immediately filed a notice the mother would appeal.
At a trial, she highlighted exactly what it means to be the child of an NBA star:
McGrady shares a six-bedroom, 23,000-square-foot house with a pool outside Houston with his wife and three children. He spends $5,000 per month on a chef and $1,732 for a housekeeper.
One of the children had a $16,000 birthday party for about 40 children, with a magician, clown, face painter, games and music.
McGrady and his family spend about $45,000 per month for personal travel, sometimes on private jets. The children went on trips to New York, to North Carolina a dozen times -- to Florida about the same number -- and to Atlanta, California, the Turks and Caicos Islands, the Bahamas, Mexico, the Virgin Islands and Rio de Janeiro.
They stay at Ritz-Carltons, have private preschool and tutors, and get thousands of dollars' worth of clothes a month.

So he spends $45,000 a month with his family, this is a train wreck waiting to happen if he does not invest his money wisely... Some people call it bankruptcy...

‘Uncle Luke’

Davania Branch Burns, the ex-girlfriend to rapper Luther ‘Uncle Luke’ Campbell and the mother of his 20-year-old daughter, has reportedly asked a Florida judge to suspend his driver’s license for failing to pay child support.
According to The Miami Herald, Burns, a 41-year-old fire inspector, claims that Luke owes over $30,000 in child support for their daughter Lutheria Campbell.
Despite the fact that Lutheria is not a minor, Burns’ attorney, Jane E Carey, argues that the rapper’s daughter is entitled to the money.
“We want him to stand up and not be a deadbeat daddy,” said Carey. “He needs to do the right thing. He needs to take care of his child. Why should he not pay? The ordinary working man has to pay.”
Under Florida law, drivers with delinquent support obligations can have their license suspended. Carey wants Luke’s license pulled until he pays what we owes.

On fathers' responsibility, Obama gets a little personal

It's unprecedented. Barack Obama is using his campaign for president to upbraid African-American men who abandon their children.
The Illinois senator's politically risky message highlights a stark and very personal contrast between his upbringing and that of rival John McCain.
In a speech delivered Sunday to the congregation of the Apostolic Church of God in Chicago, the Democratic presidential nominee lamented that too many fathers "have abandoned their responsibilities, acting like boys instead of men ... nowhere is this more true than in the African-American community."
This is the racial equivalent of Nixon going to China. While social conservatives like to draw attention to the unwillingness of too many young black men to assume the responsibilities of fatherhood, Democrats and liberals are more likely to focus on social barriers and systemic racism.
But lately, it is liberal African-Americans themselves who have taken up the issue. The comedian and commentator Bill Cosby caused a stir last year when he published a book arguing that black culture, including its music and its attitude toward education, sends the wrong message to both young men and young women, who too often behave irresponsibly as a result.
It is a message that Mr. Obama has also taken up, both in his book The Audacity of Hope and during this campaign. On Sunday, the challenges facing black families dominated his address.
"We know that more than half of all black children live in single-parent households, a number that has doubled since we were children," he told the congregants, as he recited a litany of grim statistics: "Children who grow up without a father are five times more likely to live in poverty and commit crime; they're nine times more likely to drop out of schools, 20 times more likely to end up in prison ....
"Any fool can have a child," he said. "That doesn't make you a father. It's the courage to raise a child that makes you a father."
Like any good liberal Democrat, Mr. Obama believes that government can help, which is why the senator is calling for increased federal funding for maternity leaves, prekindergarten and teachers. He would also provide job training and tax credits to fathers who meet their child-support obligations and would provide in-home nursing support for expectant and new mothers.
But ultimately, Mr. Obama stressed, only mothers and fathers can raise a child. That, he said, means turning off the television or taking away the computer game and helping your child with her homework.
It means not treating your child's Grade 8 graduation as though it were a major event. "You're supposed to graduate from the eighth grade," he told the crowd, to laughter and applause.
Most important, it means thinking less about yourself and more about your obligations to others.
"I say this knowing that I have been an imperfect father," who is too often missing from his own home, Mr. Obama added. And he said it knowing, as well, how different his own upbringing was from that of his Republican opponent.
Mr. McCain likes to declare that "I'm the son and grandson of admirals." He calls them the first heroes he ever knew and describes his relationship with them in his book Faith of My Fathers.
Mr. Obama, by contrast, spent much of his youth trying to come to terms with his father - an ambitious young Kenyan who made it all the way to the University of Hawaii, where he met and married Mr. Obama's mother, before going on to Harvard.
But Barack Obama Sr. abandoned his wife and son and returned to Africa. Mr. Obama was partly raised by his mother's second husband, Lolo Soetoro, in Jakarta, and at the age of 10 was sent back to Hawaii, where his mother's parents looked after him.
"I messed up more often than I should have, but I got plenty of second chances," Mr. Obama told the congregation. His first book, Dreams from My Father, explores the candidate's search for personal identity in the face of such a cosmopolitan upbringing.
It is uncertain what political advantage Mr. Obama hopes to gain from raising this subject. Liberal critics, both black and white, might take issue with his insistence on the importance of personal responsibility - a theme usually appropriated by the right.
But Mr. Obama's message will score points with voters who distrust and resent the obsession with victimization that characterizes many leaders of the black community. It is Mr. Obama's refusal to embrace that mantra that had some African-American critics accusing him last year of being not black enough. "Now I'm too black," he joked Sunday, referring to resistance to his candidacy among some white, working-class voters.
Whatever the political consequences, however, it appears Mr. Obama intends throughout the campaign to press home his message of the need for parental responsibility.
"I know the toll it took on me, not having a father in the house," he said Sunday, "the hole in your heart when you don't have a male figure in the home ... so I resolved many years ago that it was my obligation to break the cycle; that if I could do anything in life, I would be a good father to my children."
Whatever else this message is, it is deeply personal.

Child support benefit law criminals

The Minnesota Child Support Enforcement Agency rewards our incarcerated criminals. Minnesota Statute 518A.42 Subd. 3 clearly lays out an exception for men or women who are incarcerated. This Minnesota Statute specifically exempts people who are incarcerated from the minimum child support requirements. I believe Minnesota taxpayers should know how this affects them.
Under our current child support system, when a custodial parent is receiving financial assistance from the county in which they live, such as cash assistance, daycare assistance, or medical assistance, the non-custodial parent is responsible for paying the state back a portion, if not all, of the assistance that was given to maintain their child. This is paid back with the child support payment that is ordered from the non-custodial parent.
The non-custodial is responsible for this even if they are not working. In the event that this is the case, the current child support becomes back child support and is still owed to the state.
And can be collected in many ways. This program alleviates some of the burden on the Minnesota taxpayers.
However, under the above mentioned statute, once a person becomes incarcerated they are no longer required to be responsible for child support. It stops until they are released, no matter how long the
incarceration.
And any back child support that is owed before they are incarcerated is no longer reported to credit reporting bureaus.
Our criminal justice system has punished the offender for their crime, and the Minnesota Child Support System turns around and rewards them. Child Support is forgiven during their prison stay. Any assistance that the non-incarcerated parent receives will not be paid back after the offender is released.
This law should be stricken, and offenders should be responsible upon their release to pay back the back child support that accrued during their incarceration.
The only person who benefits from this statute is the criminal. The person who could not obey the laws set up to protect us. And the law abiding, productive citizens of Minnesota foot the bill not only for their daily needs in prison, but also take care of their child support as well.
The child suffers and so do the already heavily-taxed Minnesota citizens.

$842M in stimulus cash held back from debtors

The government has intercepted $842 million in economic stimulus payments for 1.5 million Americans who have skipped out on child support obligations, student loans or tax bills.
The amount withheld represents about 1.5% of the more than $57 billion distributed under the stimulus program. So far, 67 million tax filers have received payments.
About 54% of the cash intercepted will be funneled to states for child support, according to Dean Balamaci, a U.S. Treasury Department official. "We are really proud of that," he added.
Congress and the Bush administration came together earlier this year to enact a $170 billion economic stimulus package. The Treasury started distributing payments - $600 for individuals, $1,200 for couples and $300 per child - to tax filers. The goal was to juice the economy by putting money in the pockets of consumers.
Stimulus Cash for Child Support
One unanticipated side effect of the stimulus program is the recovery of money owed single parents and government programs that support children on welfare.
Of the stimulus cash that has been recaptured, $459 million is being sent to states to distribute for child support payments. And of that amount, $166 million is used to fund state child welfare programs and $292 million goes to custodial parents who have not qualified for welfare payments but are owed child support, according to Balamaci.
"It is important symbolically," said Robert Fellmeth, director of the Children's Advocacy Institute at the University of San Diego School of Law. "The government is saying that you owe this and your debt is more important than having you run out and spend the money."
Social service officials says the intercepted stimulus money helps reimburse state coffers, according to Anthony Farmer, spokesman for the New York State Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance.
"The state has an interest in being involved in helping to collect child support because if people don't pay child support, then those parents go on public assistance," said Farmer.
Nearly 40% of the stimulus money that has been recovered by the Treasury Department is going back to the federal government in the form of back taxes owed and student loans. About 6% will go to states that are owed back taxes. Georgia, Maryland and New York - each of which has received more than $4.5 million - are receiving the biggest stimulus offsets.
The Treasury Offset Program
The stimulus offset effort is part of the Treasury Offset Program, which intercepts federal payments of any kind to pay debts. The entire program has collected $4.6 billion so far this fiscal year.
Generally, the offset program captures money owed by people who are found formally delinquent on tax or child support payments. Tax filers on scheduled pay plans with the government are not affected by the program.
Any debtor whose stimulus check is eligible to be absorbed by the program has already received notice that he or she is delinquent on a debt, according to a Treasury spokesperson.
"These are all situations where some attempt has been made to collect the bills on a voluntary basis," said another spokesperson for the Treasury. The program matches payments due with debts owed by Social Security number and last name, according to a spokesperson.

Stimulus checks are seized for child support

All state government is seizing federal economic stimulus checks to settle debts for child support and income taxes.
The child support division had collected about $1.2 million from stimulus checks that were diverted from more than 1,800 people through May 23. "We do this every year with regular income tax refunds," said Jerry Joy, the department's assistant director for child support. He said the department has estimated it will receive $1.5 million overall.


Over $80,000 had been refunded to people who appealed the seizure of their stimulus funds. In some cases, their money had been taken from income tax refunds.
People whose stimulus checks were diverted received notices from the state.
By mid-May, the Internal Revenue Service had refunded $27 billion to about 30 million taxpayers. It expects to send 130 million refunds by the end of June.
The last checks, except for taxpayers who requested extensions in filing their returns and a few other exceptions, will go out in July.
A diverse group of more than two dozen Americans who tracked how they spent their stimulus payments.

Anne Heche ordered to pay child support

The judge cut Anne Heche some slack regarding her child support. Heche was paying her ex-husband Coley Laffoon a whopping $14,978 a month in child support and paying for their private school tuition.Anne went to court and pleaded with the court to lower her child support costs claiming poverty. She basically said that she couldn't afford that much because her show Men In Trees was cancelled. The judge was nice enough to lower her child support from $14,978 to $3,700. That's nice of the judge! While the judge dropped the child support payment significantly, he also ordered her to pay her ex- husband a lump sum divorce settlement of $275,000.

Man must pay child support, despite test

A man who claimed for almost 13 years that he was the father of a child born during his marriage, despite evidence to the contrary, remains responsible for child support even after a paternity test proved otherwise, the Court of Special Appeals has held. A judge in Garrett County Circuit Court should not have granted Darren G. Kamp’s request for genetic testing without considering the best interests of the child, the appellate panel said. Because of that error, “it follows that the court erred in terminating [Kamp’s] child support obligation based on the paternity test results,” wrote Judge Ellen L. Hollander.
WHAT THE COURT HELD
Case: Dep’t of Human Resources, Garrett County DSS, Bureau of Support Enforcement, ex rel. Vicki Jo Duckworth v. Darren Gerald Kamp, CSA 2871, Sept. Term 2006. Reported. Opinion by Hollander, J. Filed May 30, 2008. Issue: Did the lower court err in ordering a genetic test and in terminating the child support obligation of a presumptive father who failed to contest paternity for almost 13 years? Holding: Yes; the lower court erred in ordering the genetic test because it failed to consider the best interests of the child, and erred in terminating the child support obligation because the genetic test was improperly ordered, the appellee’s legal status as father was never terminated and his claims were barred by laches and judicial estoppel. Counsel: Joseph B. Spillman for appellant; G. Gary Hanna for appellee.

Assistant State’s Attorney Joseph B. Spillman, who argued the case for the Garrett County Department of Social Services, felt the court came to the correct decision. “We certainly were pleased that the court made it clear that courts are required to give careful consideration of the best interest of the child before upsetting parental relationships established in divorce proceedings,” said Spillman. Kamp’s attorney, G. Gary Hanna, a solo practitioner in Cumberland, said recent events make him unsure of the case’s future. “We were disappointed with the decision, especially in light of the fact that the child and child’s mother have now completely left the jurisdiction,” said Hanna. “That is a subtlety that we weren’t able to tell to the Court of Special Appeals but since she’s now taken the child from the jurisdiction we really don’t know what will transpire.” Presumed parent Four children were born during Kamp’s marriage to Vicki Jo Duckworth, including a daughter who was born about four years after Kamp had a vasectomy, according to the appellate opinion. Despite allegedly knowing he was not the child’s father, Kamp held himself out as the girl’s father. Even when the parties divorced in 1999 and he was ordered to pay child support, Kamp did not dispute the girl’s paternity. In July 2005, the Department of Social Services filed a petition to increase Kamp’s child support obligation. Kamp then argued that the girl was not his biological daughter, but rather the child of a man with whom Duckworth was having sexual relations in 1992. The lower court ordered a paternity test, which excluded Kamp as the father. The court then terminated Kamp’s child support obligation for his daughter. DSS appealed, arguing that Kamp was precluded from contesting paternity and obligated to continue to pay support. Statutory duty Even if the test itself had been properly ordered, the appeals court said, it would have been an error to terminate child support because paternity was never terminated. “The decision made it clear that once a parental obligation is legally established the child support obligation continues unless parental rights are terminated,” said Spillman. Spillman said he thought the court placed great weight on the fact that Kamp never sought to terminate his parental rights. “One thing that does make this stand out a little bit … is Mr. Kamp did not want his parental rights terminated,” said Spillman. “He was seeking solely to have child support terminated.” Furthermore, the court found the burden was improperly placed on Duckworth to demonstrate that she could not get support from the girl’s biological father. “The best interest standard does not permit a court to cut off one source of a child’s economic support on a mere assumption that another source will arise to fill the void,” wrote Hollander. The court also held that Kamp’s claims were barred by the equitable doctrine of laches as he had waited almost 13 years to contest paternity, and that his request to seek termination of child support was barred by the doctrine of judicial estoppel because he informed the court on several occasions he was the girl’s father. “By waiting until 2005 to assert a paternity challenge … appellee slept on his rights,” the court wrote.


I read the Courts decision and I agreed. Although once the father hits economic hardship and is having trouble paying child support is it really in the best interest of the child? If you take food out of one childs mouth to feed another is that in the best interest of the child? If so which one? Once money becomes a factor in a parent child realtionship it can sever ties that the court claims is already built up! So what then?

Holyfield behind on child support

Evander Holyfield may lose Home and owes Child Support claims Mom of his ChildBy.

Toi Irvin who has an 11 year old son fathered by former heavyweight champ Evander Holyfield, has filed a petition against Evander for missing two child-support payments. The petition for contempt was filed in the Fayette County Superior Court, and alleges that Evander owes $6,000 in child support for the months of May and June.
According to a report published in the The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, indicates that representatives for Evander have told her not to expect the payments.Quoted by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Irvin's Attorney stated: "It wasn't so much that he didn't pay. She was told they didn't know if she would be paid at all."Add to his problems, Evander may be in some deep financial trouble. According to a legal notice, his estate which is in Fayette County and reported to be worth $10 million, is under foreclosure. Reports in the media state the home will auctioned on July 1st by Washington Mutual Bank.

50 Cents New York Home burned down

Shaniqua Tompkins had been living in the multimillion-dollar Long Island home owned by Grammy-nominated rapper 50 Cent. Ms Tomkins was not happy receiving child support payment and free room and board and sued for more child support. The Court in April had raised the support to $25,000 but after an appeal by 50 cents lawyers the Child Support Court lowered to the new amout of $6,700 a month.
The Court also ruled that Ms Tompkins had to move out of the home 50 cents was allowing her to live in.
Now days before she has to move out of the home a suspicious" fire burned down the home. Arson squad investigators were on the scene of the Friday blaze.

50 Cent's Child Support Bill Cut By nearly 75%

Rapper 50 Cent found out Monday that he no longer has to pay his ex-girlfriend Tomkins $25,000 a month for child support of his son Marquis. The court ruled the G-Unit President will now only have to pay $6,700 a month. In April awarded Tomkins $25,000 a month ($10,000 in child support and $15,000 for expenses), half of what she was demanding, while the court reviewed the expenses for her and 50's son. Now that the review is over, 5o is happy with the new order.

911 billed passed

Gov. David Paterson is making it a crime to prevent someone in a domestic violence situation from calling 911 by disabling or removing a phone.
The bill passed earlier this year by the Legislature and signed into law by Paterson Monday creates the misdemeanor. But Paterson says it should be followed with measures outlawing other ways of keeping a spouse or partner from calling for help, such as restraining someone physically from making the call.

vigilante parents

Have you ever looked at a child's face when you told him or her that they could not see the non custodial parent?
It is wrong for any parent to prevent a child from bonding with their parent? Parents, you have a responsibility to pay for children you bring into this world, the money is to help with their general welfare. Providing a roof over their head, feeding, clothing, the list goes on. There is simply no excuse for denying your children their money. Equally I do not condone parents being denied access to see their kids. I guess it all boils down to educating parents and would be parents on the untold consequences this has on the innocent parties - the children.
I personally thing that the vigilante parents that talk the law in their hand should suffer the consequences of their actions. If they think that because the dad did not pay child support that he should not see the child is not their call. They should be forced to sit in jail for the weekend while the child spends time with the non custodial parent. I think after that the problem will be resolved.

Child Support guidelines changing

The child support guidelines now takes inconsideration of what both parents before imposing an order on either parent. Now the woman's income is used when deciding what the father will pay. Also the medical care will be split evenly between the parents. This new ruling is not to benefit the father, but more of a benefit for the child. Now that woman income are much higher than most men, the new law now forces the court to look at the womans income first before issuing a child support order. The new argument is that child support is that all this is done for the child, but what if their are other children that live with the father? A violation of one childs constitiutional rights so that you can protect anothers rights, is that fair? Make one child suffer so that another child can live better. The Court is becoming aware that the father has another family now the Court has to figure out ways to make it fair to both sets of childern!

Child Support Plan to Reduce Incarcerations

Fairfax County Del. Dave Marsden sponsored the program that will offer child-support delinquents a chance to avoid incarceration. Hundreds of Virginians convicted of failing to pay child support will be given a chance to stay out of jail under a bill approved recently by the General Assembly. The pilot program will closely monitors convicted dodgers in the community instead of incarcerating them. At the court's discretion, participants entering the program will be required to work and pay off their debts gradually, with their progress checked closely by a state caseworker. If offenders fail to make payments or follow specifics of the court order, they could be sent to jail. Participants will be released from the monitoring program when caseworkers determine they are fulfilling the court's terms.
With the start of this program and more money being paid to the childern, a success with this program would mean more states will implement this programs and cut down on funds needed to incarcerate child support dodgers.

The power of the Internet...

I am sure everyone realizes how powerful the Internet is, but do you really understand the unlimited depth that you can research material? Have you ever looked up a word on the Internet, but was not sure how to spell it? So you put the best phoentic sounds of the word and hit enter and the search came back do you mean this phonetics. The same goes for child support, money, life and the pursuit of happiness.

If you go to Court and the judge imposes a judgement on you and you don't agree, you do have the right to appeal. I am sure they want you to believe that their decision if final, but it is not that's where appeal comes in, to a higher Court. I promise you you will find at least 10 other cases just like yours, and you don't have to go to a law library to find them... Just the Internet. If your income issue is about income, type in child support issues with income. Now you may have to rearrange the words to find the topics of the cases. Also you can look up Supreme Court cases with the same ease. The key is, if you don't believe it, research it!

Mc Breed Jailed for back child support

MC Breed sent to jail over back child support, rapper MC Breed was sent to jail for at least 60 days during a child support hearing in front of Probate Judge Jennie Barkey.
The entertainer, whose real name is Eric Breed, was arrested shortly before he was to perform with Lil Wayne at Perani Arena for owing more than $200,000 in child support to three different women.
Attorney Jay Clothier, who represented Breed during the hearing, said the rapper's career was not doing as well, and he could not the child support.
Breed briefly statement was that , "He did the best he could do." "Pitiful"
Judge Barkey was unimpressed by Breed's statement and that's why she imposed the sentence.
Barkey sentenced him to 45 days in jail and $5,000 bond in the first case which stems from 1994. Breed owes $54,621 in child support in that case.
In a second case from 1994, Breed owes $135,539 and was sentenced to 45 days in jail and a $10,000 bond.
A third case from 2004 has back child support in the amount of $33,926. Breed was sentenced to 60 days in jail with a $3,000 bond.

Friend of the Court Jack Battles had told Breed he would be let of jail for the concert if he could come up with $6,000 but he was unable to raise the funds.
Its sad that Breed can go and perform at a concert, but can not raise $6,000 thousands dollars. What kind on rapper is he? I think dead beat dad should be placed in the title of his name, if all he could manage to pay was $50.00 dollars in 3 years. Maybe you did not want to pay child support.

Are you kidding me?

Ex-Beatle Paul McCartney was ordered to pay his ex-wife almost $50 million in their divorce settlement. This settlement will come in payments of $1.2 million per year, plus $5 million to purchase a home. Additionally, the court ordered him to pay $70,000 per year in child support. According to CNN online, ex-wife Heather Mills responded by complaining that her four-year-old would no longer be able to fly first class five times per year, estimated to cost around $34,000. What is she flying on?

So lets get a pure understanding of this, she get $50 million plus $70,000 a month in child support and she claims that she can not fly first class any more? Give me a break! She actually has the unmitigated gall to make such a claim? The judge estimated McCartney's net worth to be about $800 million. In fact, the settlement represents only six percent of his total assets, considering they did not sign a prenuptial agreement, I think she came out pretty good. The point of child support is to do just that: support a child. Not change the lifestyle of the mother! The child of a wealthy parent requires more than the child of an unwealthy one; because of the opportunity that is giving to a child at an early age, the expectations are greater. The status of a family that has money differs from the average family. After exposing a child to a staus of living why punish a child because the parents divorce. It would not be fair to expect that child to live on a lower standard than he or she is used to. it is fair to require a wealthy person to pay larger child support payments but there must be a limits. The reason why, A wealth familys child will always have a higher rate of exposure to opportunity because of the money and the status that has been developed with the family name. If you don't believe me look at reality TV shows such as Runs House, Jean Simmons Family Jewel. These shows allow the American public to view how they live and the type of status they have developed. They pick up the phone call an executive and get their childern places in a matter of minutes. Life does not end when the child support order is placed, but its just begining.

Sean Levert died after being jailed for paying child support

The 39 year old R&B singer died at the Lutheran Hospital from natural causes last night. He was transported to the hospital from the Cuyahoga County Jail. He was being held there on charges of not paying child support.
The Sean Levert death comes as a big surprise considering his age. The crazy thing is that his brother Gerald Levert died in in 2006 at the age of 40. There is not any evidence of foul play involved considering both of them died at such a young age. Shawn levert and Gerald Levert formed the band “LeVert” back in 1984.

Sean Levert had been sentenced to 22-months in prison for not paying child support. Sean owes $85,427.68 in back support for his three children - ages 11, 15 and 17.

I don't agree with jail time for non-child support payments. With All the crime in the United States how many cells a year do we waste on dead beat dads? I wonder is it really worth locking a man or woman up for for a year or two as a form of puishment? It offers no retributuion to the child and what does the state gain from is incarceration, a check? Why not community service, house arrest and if they don't get it then, lock him or her up.