Comments on: 20 Years in Prison for Failing to Pay Child Support? http://www.bloggernews.net/111673 High-quality English language analysis and editorial writing on the news. Tue, 07 Oct 2008 15:19:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: kaylen http://www.bloggernews.net/111673#comment-475391 kaylen Thu, 14 Aug 2008 21:24:45 +0000 http://www.bloggernews.net/111673#comment-475391 I have another viewpoint coming from the opposing side - that of a single mom. I have 2 children and know what it is to have to tough things out. My husband left me for a girl barely over 18 whom he had gotten pregnant during the course of our marriage. He left & was seeing us both for a year - and I couldn't figure out why he wasn't willing to come back, but had tried everything to save our marriage. After he left, our only car broke down and he refused to help. He helped us monetarily but not for long. We eventually were on foot and me & my children had to walk to the store for things. A friend would drive me back and forth to work. He is now $11,000 behind on child support. It is so frustrating to have to fight constantly for what should be rightfully yours. If this man went on like that for a time as to accrue the amount worth a 20 yr prison term, he probably got what was coming to him. When you neglect financially helping your children, you would not believe the mental anguish that a person goes through. Having done everything right like you were supposed to and they walk, while you struggle. If you think about it, it would take a long time to accrue $35,000 worth of child support debt. Everyone knows that you are responsible for a child when you have one. It is their own choice to not have taken care of their responsibilities. I take care of every need of my children to make sure that they are ok. But I shouldn't have to do it alone. The other party should be held responsible as well. If they have made the choice not to pay, then they have chosen the consequences that follow. Being a single parent, it is so hard to clean up anything on your credit that is left after a divorce and be able to take care of your current needs as well. Buying a good car or house is not in the picture b/c of every day struggles - even though it could be cheaper to pay a house payment rather than rent, etc. It affects the children as well. They are not able to have the things that their friends do. They haven't done anything and deserve to have the same opportunities. It's not right and he should be punished for not taking care of his responsibilities. I have another viewpoint coming from the opposing side - that of a single mom. I have 2 children and know what it is to have to tough things out. My husband left me for a girl barely over 18 whom he had gotten pregnant during the course of our marriage. He left & was seeing us both for a year - and I couldn’t figure out why he wasn’t willing to come back, but had tried everything to save our marriage. After he left, our only car broke down and he refused to help. He helped us monetarily but not for long. We eventually were on foot and me & my children had to walk to the store for things. A friend would drive me back and forth to work. He is now $11,000 behind on child support. It is so frustrating to have to fight constantly for what should be rightfully yours. If this man went on like that for a time as to accrue the amount worth a 20 yr prison term, he probably got what was coming to him. When you neglect financially helping your children, you would not believe the mental anguish that a person goes through. Having done everything right like you were supposed to and they walk, while you struggle. If you think about it, it would take a long time to accrue $35,000 worth of child support debt. Everyone knows that you are responsible for a child when you have one. It is their own choice to not have taken care of their responsibilities. I take care of every need of my children to make sure that they are ok. But I shouldn’t have to do it alone. The other party should be held responsible as well. If they have made the choice not to pay, then they have chosen the consequences that follow. Being a single parent, it is so hard to clean up anything on your credit that is left after a divorce and be able to take care of your current needs as well. Buying a good car or house is not in the picture b/c of every day struggles - even though it could be cheaper to pay a house payment rather than rent, etc. It affects the children as well. They are not able to have the things that their friends do. They haven’t done anything and deserve to have the same opportunities. It’s not right and he should be punished for not taking care of his responsibilities.

]]> By: tnbroker http://www.bloggernews.net/111673#comment-422667 tnbroker Mon, 21 Jul 2008 01:07:41 +0000 http://www.bloggernews.net/111673#comment-422667 My husband has been involved with a child support case in Arkansas for many many years.It was permanently assigned to OCSE in 1996 until the ex closed the case in 1999 in the middle of the trial which started in 1998. ( We have lived in Tennessee for 23 years) His 2 children are now 29 and 33 years old with 3 children of their own. He got a $14,300 child support judgment back in 1986 which according to an Arkansas Child Support Document shows this was paid off in Nov 1993 yet Arkansas OCSE "forgot" to file a satisfaction. His ex in 1999 found out that it was not recorded as paid off and she then closed the case with OCSE and went to an attorney who has represented her for years and is very powerful in Arkansas. They made up numbers which my husband denied owing in court and then her attorney along with our attorney signed a waiver for the first day of trial not be transcribed. The transcriptionist was there transcribing but denies being there. She even smiled and spoke to us that day!! We did not know about this waiver until after the court when we found it at the courthouse.(It is now stamped as if it was filed before the first morning of the trial.When we first found it it was not stamped as filed.This waiver date is the day that we denied owing anything else so he had to dispose of it! ) This waiver helped to deny us of our due process of an appeal. Then this opposing attorney typed up an order and had the judge sign it stating that the plaintiff and defendant through their attorneys agree that my husband owes over $40,800 in arrearages from this $14,340 1986 judgment that we have all of our cancelled checks to prove has been paid off!! The attorneys did not sign this order but it was "stamped" only with the judges signature! There was NEVER an agreement by the parties!.( We DO have a letter that this attorney wrote the judge saying he did not think our attorney would sign it yet it was filed with the judges signature the next day! We were ordered to pay $5,000 lump sum to the ex or for my husband to spend 6 months in jail! We went and borrowed the $5000 to keep him from having to go to jail. We then went and got a new attorney to file our appeal even though we only had the last day of the trial because the first day had been destroyed (due to the waiver the attorneys had signed.) The new attorney said he had never heard of the ex`s attorney. This new attorney then filed our appeal a day late and sent us a letter saying the appelant court threw it out because it was late! We filed a complaint on this new attorney . The ex`s attorney (who had recently served as chairman of the Ethics committee) wrote a letter on the new attorneys behalf concerning our complaint and the committee only gave him a warning!!! ( This new attorney then said the ex`s attorney had been a family friiend for years! ) We continued paying ex $300 month but we realized that we were approx $13,000 overpaid and my husband became very ill so we stopped paying in March 2005. Then in 2006 they took my husband back into court and they got a judge to have an expideted hearing in a little room in the courthouse. They called it Circuit Court but Circuit Court was being held upstairs by a lady judge and our court was the only one being held in that little room. The judge (chosen by her attorney) drove from out of town just to hear our case. When spectators came in they were immediately sent out.. The judge refused to look at our proof of payments and just said all we had was a paper from OCSE and they had a paper showing what we actually owed! It was figured by a man who had his accountant license taken away and was sent to prison several years ago for money laundering! He had been the ex wife`s boyfriend for years and has been a car salesman since getting out of prison. All of these people knew this was totally fraud yet the judge ruled that my husband could pay a lump sum of $15,000 plus at least $500 month until this fraudulant $48,000 was paid off or spend 6 months in jail! He wanted us to report back to the Court about a month later with the $15,000 or my husband to come prepared to stay in jail. We tried getting to the courthouse on court day even though we did not have the $15,000 and had no possible way of getting it. We were worried about having the gas money to get there. Our car started running hot and we turned around and e-mailed our attorney telling her our circumstances. She went on to court for us. The judge then ordered the $48,000 plus $1000 to her attorney to be paid in a lump sum or my husband go to jail!! (We had already paid our attorney $7400., which we had to borrow, and were totally broke!) We do not even have $48.00 much less $48,000!! We have absolutely no way to get this kind of money. We have been in real estate for 20 years and houses are just not selling!! Our grown daughter is bringing us food for survival and she is on government assistance trying to raise 3 kids on her own. In our testimony we told the judge about us losing our Real Estate building to foreclosure (where we have run our company for 16 years), We also told about having our car and van being repossessed. We are having to borrow an old 1990 car from my brother. He has taped the back glass in with wide black tape and if it rains we just get wet. It has huge hail damage ALL over it and the top is severly torn all over. The paint is coming off on all four sides and of course it has no air. We have no retirement or health insurance. His ex has a great retirement, good health insurance and a good income at a college where she has worked for years. She drives a nice like new car, wears designer clothes,and lives in one of Blytheville`s most exclusive neighborhoods. She takes a vacation at least every year. We have not had a vacation in 14 years!! Never in all of these years has any financial means EVER been shown. We do not even have the money to pay our bills each month and we have not bought any clothes in several years. We are considering filing a chapter 7 bankruptcy because we have absolutely $0 equity in anything. We are totally broke! We appealed our case to the Arkansas Court of Appeals and they affirmed the case June 25th 2008 . We cannot prove it but it is our belief that the ex`s attorney somehow did the same thing he did with the judge in 1999 and showed the folks at the appellant court (which he knew well) these fake documents as if we owed this money. If my husband goes to jail or if they garnish his check I will lose my home of 23 years to foreclosure and even though it has no equity it is still home and it`s all I have now. My husband recently got a job working in a restaurant making about $300.UNDER enough each month to pay our bills. The ex wife has told their children that she knows this case is illegal but the courts has said she can get this money and she WILL get it or my husband WILL go to jail!! We sent approx $8400 directly to her one year (as requested by her attorney) which she never reported to OCSE and the $5000 we paid for the purge in 1999 was also never reported to OCSE. I sent copies of these cancelled checks along with a copy of the cashiers check for $5000 to Little Rock OCSE but they were never recorded in our file there. We also have a "certified" copy from Little Rock OCSE from several years ago where all of our checks were not shown!! It does not even match their printout! The Blytheville Courthouse does NOT show the $5000 in their printout of what`s been paid even though it was paid to them (and they STILL show a $0 balance without these payments) If it had been recorded it would show us being overpaid! They did make a note of the $5000 in the docket book. If they had just those payments to ex with the $5000 alone recorded we would be $13,000 overpaid in their records! The ex`s attorney has now filed a document in our file in the courthouse as if it came from OCSE with these fake figures being owed! Blytheville OCSE as well as Little Rock now say they have nothing in our file because the case has been closed .They can only give a payment history (which does not show all checks) and which does not give a balance at all ! If only they had filed this satisfaction in Nov 1993 when it was paid off we would not have lost everything and we would not be going through this awful nightmare!! Her attorney is so powerful that he can get away with all of this theft and fraud and get others to conspire with him to pull off this extortion. He is so powerful that nobody will go against him in Arkansas so we HAVE to get it before the federal people so that we can prove this fraud!! Her attorney even somehow got my personal & company tax return years ago without my knowledge. (It was for a year that I was not even married to my husband until Oct that year!) How he got it is beyond me but I have had identity theft ever since! We just need someone federally to audit this child support case so that this terrible mess can be resolved proving we do not owe this money so we can go on with our life and my husband will not have to fear jail or garnishment for this money that we do not owe. Isn`t this what is called debtors prison--when you are forced to go to jail if you cannot pay a fraudulant debt? If we were to have to pay what`s been ordered we would be paying about $100,000 (counting what we have already paid and what is now ordered) for this $14,300 judgement from 1986.! Anyone should be able to tell that on a $14,300 judgment at 10% interest for 22 years ,even if we had paid nothing-- (which we have paid $39,600 on)--this $48,000 additional amount as just affirmed by the Court Of Appeals is totally impossible!! I`m just thankful we have ALL of our cancelled checks to prove our innocence! We do not have any more money we can use for an attorney. Folks in Arkansas will not help us because of the power of this ex`s attorney who has held several important offices in the state. We first met our most recent attorney in the courthouse just a few minutes before our trial (This is the one who filed our appeal). Even though we paid her $7300 and she has billed us for over $4000 more she was always too busy to sit down with us. To this day she has NEVER had a sit down meeting with us. We have no idea what her personal office looks like! We did first talk to her father who is also an attorney and he immediately turned it over to her. She only used the records from the files at the courthouse which is the very fraud we were fighting against! We left our cancelled checks as our proof of payment with the secretary at her office but never saw the attorney there.The only correspondance we have had with her was every few months she would e-mail us or text message us (most of the time around midnight). We would go for months wondering what was going on! We did not have any idea what she filed with the Court of Appeals until after she had it filed. We were then VERY shocked from the things she did not mention! It was as if she had never been to our trial and did not know what the case was even about!! (Could she have possibly got into the scam with them???) We found our Court Of Appeals affirmed case on the internet and we e-mailed her that we found it but we have STILL not heard a thing back from her. We have absolutely nobody to help us now since we are broke! I do not expect to hear anything from you on this either because I know of the fear people have when it is this many important Arkansas Officials involved in a case like this. (There are at least 15 well known Arkansas officials involved) but I know it is long and I really do appreciate you taking the time to read it. I am not just another crazy person with another crazy story. This case has cost me my entire life. It has caused us to lose all confidence in our judicial system. It is my belief that this case should be given strict attention just as Paula Casey did in 1998 on an Arkansas Child Support case when she brought down several important people in Arkansas. It should become a case that is well known in Arkansas Corruption. We are in contact with the media and several other important people and organizations.and will not give up until something is done!Your attention or any suggestions would be greatly appreciated! Sam N Johns OCSE case # 027080360 and 001 1597699001 Arkansas Case # E-81-308 Arkansas Appeal Court # CA-07-1036 Our phone # is 1-731-664-5209 Our e-mail is realworld11@jaxnet.net My husband has been involved with a child support case in Arkansas for
many many years.It was permanently assigned to OCSE in 1996 until the ex
closed the case in 1999 in the middle of the trial which started in
1998. ( We have lived in Tennessee for 23 years) His 2 children are now
29 and 33 years old with 3 children of their own. He got a $14,300 child
support judgment back in 1986 which according to an Arkansas Child
Support Document shows this was paid off in Nov 1993 yet Arkansas OCSE
“forgot” to file a satisfaction. His ex in 1999 found out that it was
not recorded as paid off and she then closed the case with OCSE and went
to an attorney who has represented her for years and is very powerful in
Arkansas. They made up numbers which my husband denied owing in court
and then her attorney along with our attorney signed a waiver for the
first day of trial not be transcribed. The transcriptionist was there
transcribing but denies being there. She even smiled and spoke to us
that day!! We did not know about this waiver until after the court when
we found it at the courthouse.(It is now stamped as if it was filed
before the first morning of the trial.When we first found it it was not
stamped as filed.This waiver date is the day that we denied owing
anything else so he had to dispose of it! ) This waiver helped to deny
us of our due process of an appeal. Then this opposing attorney typed up
an order and had the judge sign it stating that the plaintiff and
defendant through their attorneys agree that my husband owes over
$40,800 in arrearages from this $14,340 1986 judgment that we have all
of our cancelled checks to prove has been paid off!! The attorneys did
not sign this order but it was “stamped” only with the judges signature!
There was NEVER an agreement by the parties!.( We DO have a letter that
this attorney wrote the judge saying he did not think our attorney would
sign it yet it was filed with the judges
signature the next day! We were ordered to pay $5,000 lump sum to the
ex
or for my husband to spend 6 months in jail! We went and borrowed the
$5000 to keep him from having to go to jail. We then went and got a new
attorney to file our appeal even though we only had the last day of the
trial because the first day had been destroyed (due to the waiver the
attorneys had
signed.) The new attorney said he had never heard of the ex`s attorney.
This new attorney then filed our appeal a day late and sent us a letter
saying the appelant court threw it out because it was late! We filed a
complaint on this new attorney . The ex`s attorney (who had recently
served as chairman of the Ethics committee) wrote a letter on the new
attorneys behalf concerning our complaint and the committee only gave
him a warning!!! ( This new attorney then said the ex`s attorney had
been a family friiend for years! ) We continued paying ex $300 month but
we realized that we were approx $13,000 overpaid and my husband became
very ill so we stopped paying in March 2005. Then in 2006 they took my
husband back into court and they got a judge to have an expideted
hearing in a little room in the courthouse.
They called it Circuit Court but Circuit Court was being held upstairs
by a lady judge and our court was the only one being held in that little
room.
The judge (chosen by her attorney) drove from out of town just to hear
our case. When spectators came in they were immediately sent out.. The
judge refused to look at our proof of payments and just said all we had
was a paper from OCSE and they had a paper showing what we actually
owed! It was figured by a man who had his accountant license taken away
and was sent to prison several years ago for money laundering! He had
been the ex wife`s boyfriend for years and has been a car salesman since
getting out of prison.
All of these people knew this was totally fraud yet the judge ruled that
my husband could pay a lump sum of $15,000 plus at least $500 month
until this fraudulant $48,000 was paid off or spend 6 months in jail! He
wanted us to report back to the Court about a month later with the
$15,000 or my husband to come prepared to stay in jail. We tried getting
to the courthouse on court day even though we did not have the $15,000
and had no possible way of getting it. We were worried about having the
gas money to get there. Our car started running hot and we turned around
and e-mailed our attorney telling her our circumstances. She went on to
court for us. The judge then ordered the $48,000 plus $1000 to her
attorney to be paid in a lump sum or my husband go to jail!! (We had
already paid our attorney $7400., which we had to borrow, and were
totally broke!) We do not even have $48.00 much less $48,000!! We have
absolutely no way to get this kind of money. We have been in real estate
for 20 years and houses are just not selling!! Our grown daughter is
bringing us food for survival and she is on government assistance trying
to raise 3 kids on her own. In our testimony we told the judge about us
losing our Real Estate building to foreclosure (where we have run our
company for 16 years), We also told about having our car and van being
repossessed. We are having to borrow an old 1990 car from my brother.
He has taped the back glass in with wide black tape and if it rains we
just get wet. It has huge hail damage ALL over it and the top is
severly torn all over. The paint is coming off on all four sides and of
course it has no air. We have no retirement or health insurance. His ex
has a great retirement, good health insurance and a good income at a
college where she has worked for years. She drives a nice like new car,
wears designer clothes,and lives in one of Blytheville`s most exclusive
neighborhoods. She takes a vacation at least every year. We have not had
a vacation in 14 years!! Never in all of these years has any financial
means EVER been shown.
We do not even have the money to pay our bills each month and we have
not bought any clothes in several years. We are considering filing a
chapter 7 bankruptcy because we have absolutely $0 equity in anything.
We are totally broke! We appealed our case to the Arkansas Court of
Appeals and they affirmed the case June 25th 2008 . We cannot prove it
but it is our belief that the ex`s attorney somehow did the same thing
he did with the judge in
1999 and showed the folks at the appellant court (which he knew well)
these fake documents as if we owed this money. If my husband goes to
jail or if they garnish his check I will lose my home of 23 years to
foreclosure and even though it has no equity it is still home and it`s
all I have now. My husband recently got a job working in a restaurant
making about $300.UNDER enough each month to pay our bills. The ex wife
has told their children that she knows this case is illegal but the
courts has said she can get this money and she WILL get it or my husband
WILL go to jail!! We sent approx $8400 directly to her one year (as
requested by her attorney) which she never reported to OCSE and the
$5000 we paid for the purge in 1999 was also never reported to OCSE. I
sent copies of these cancelled checks along with a copy of the cashiers
check for $5000 to Little Rock OCSE but they were never recorded in our
file there. We also have a “certified” copy from Little Rock OCSE from
several years ago where all of our checks were not shown!! It does not
even match their printout! The Blytheville Courthouse does NOT show the
$5000 in their printout of what`s been paid even though it was paid to
them (and they STILL show a $0 balance without these payments) If it had
been recorded it would show us being overpaid! They did make a note of
the $5000 in the docket book. If they had just those payments to ex
with the $5000 alone recorded we would be $13,000 overpaid in their
records! The ex`s attorney has now filed a document in our file in the
courthouse as if it came from OCSE with these fake figures being owed!
Blytheville OCSE as well as Little Rock now say they have nothing in
our file because the case has been closed .They can only give a payment
history (which does not show all
checks) and which does not give a balance at all ! If only they had
filed this satisfaction in Nov 1993 when it was paid off we would not
have lost everything and we would not be going through this awful
nightmare!! Her attorney is so powerful that he can get away with all of
this theft and fraud and get others to conspire with him to pull off
this extortion. He is so powerful that nobody will go against him in
Arkansas so we HAVE to get it before the federal people so that we can
prove this fraud!! Her attorney even somehow got my personal & company
tax return years ago without my knowledge. (It was for a year that I was
not even married to my husband until Oct that year!) How he got it is
beyond me but I have had identity theft ever since! We just need
someone federally to audit this child support case so that this terrible
mess can be resolved proving we do not owe this money so we can go on
with our life and my husband will not have to fear jail or garnishment
for this money that we do not owe. Isn`t this what is called debtors
prison–when you are forced to go to jail if you cannot pay a fraudulant
debt? If we were to have to pay what`s been ordered we would be paying
about $100,000 (counting what we have already paid and what is now
ordered) for this $14,300 judgement from 1986.! Anyone should be able
to tell that on a $14,300 judgment at 10% interest for 22 years ,even if
we had paid nothing– (which we have paid $39,600 on)–this $48,000
additional amount as just affirmed by the Court Of Appeals is totally
impossible!! I`m just thankful we have ALL of our cancelled checks to
prove our innocence! We do not have any more money we can use for an
attorney. Folks in Arkansas will not help us because of the power of
this ex`s attorney who has held several important offices in the state.
We first met our most recent attorney in the courthouse just a few
minutes before our trial (This is the one who filed our appeal). Even
though we paid her $7300 and she has billed us for over $4000 more she
was always too busy to sit down with us. To this day she has NEVER had a
sit down meeting with us.
We have no idea what her personal office looks like! We did first talk
to her father who is also an attorney and he immediately turned it over
to her.
She only used the records from the files at the courthouse which is the
very fraud we were fighting against! We left our cancelled checks as our
proof of payment with the secretary at her office but never saw the
attorney there.The only correspondance we have had with her was every
few months she would e-mail us or text message us (most of the time
around midnight). We would go for months wondering what was going on! We
did not have any idea what she filed with the Court of Appeals until
after she had it filed. We were then VERY shocked from the things she
did not mention! It was as if she had never been to our trial and did
not know what the case was even about!!
(Could she have possibly got into the scam with them???) We found our
Court Of Appeals affirmed case on the internet and we e-mailed her that
we found it but we have STILL not heard a thing back from her. We have
absolutely
nobody to help us now since we are broke! I do not expect to hear
anything
from you on this either because I know of the fear people have when it
is this many important Arkansas Officials involved in a case like this.
(There are at least 15 well known Arkansas officials involved) but I
know it is long and I really do appreciate you taking the time to read
it. I am not just another crazy person with another crazy story. This
case has cost me my entire life. It has caused us to lose all confidence
in our judicial system.
It is my belief that this case should be given strict attention just as
Paula Casey did in 1998 on an Arkansas Child Support case when she
brought down several important people in Arkansas. It should become a
case that is well known in Arkansas Corruption. We are in contact with
the media and several other important people and organizations.and will
not give up until something is done!Your attention or any suggestions
would be greatly
appreciated! Sam N Johns OCSE case # 027080360 and 001
1597699001
Arkansas Case # E-81-308 Arkansas Appeal Court # CA-07-1036 Our
phone # is 1-731-664-5209 Our e-mail is realworld11@jaxnet.net

]]> By: me http://www.bloggernews.net/111673#comment-393645 me Fri, 27 Jun 2008 16:36:34 +0000 http://www.bloggernews.net/111673#comment-393645 Alberto- i wish i could help. i am the wife of someone currently in the same situation as yourself. (he has an x-wife & child from 16 yrs ago) the system is so devilish. i will pray for you and your mother. i will also pray for your children. please pray for my children too. if my husband goes to jail, i will be stuck, and become yet another welfare mother, all because my husband is unable to afford his payments. i would give you money if i had it because i know how hard and heartbreaking it is to go thru life always looking over your shoulder. But, all i can offer is my prayers, and i know Father hears all. Don't lose your faith even when it seems like there is no point in retaining any. We never know, we very well could recieve what we need when we least expect it. Maybe not, but Maybe! In Christ, from C.P. Alberto- i wish i could help. i am the wife of someone currently in the same situation as yourself. (he has an x-wife & child from 16 yrs ago) the system is so devilish.
i will pray for you and your mother. i will also pray for your children. please pray for my children too. if my husband goes to jail, i will be stuck, and become yet another welfare mother, all because my husband is unable to afford his payments. i would give you money if i had it because i know how hard and heartbreaking it is to go thru life always looking over your shoulder. But, all i can offer is my prayers, and i know Father hears all. Don’t lose your faith even when it seems like there is no point in retaining any. We never know, we very well could recieve what we need when we least expect it. Maybe not, but Maybe! In Christ, from C.P.

]]> By: Alberto Garcia http://www.bloggernews.net/111673#comment-381244 Alberto Garcia Mon, 16 Jun 2008 18:45:07 +0000 http://www.bloggernews.net/111673#comment-381244 My family and friends have bonded me out of Benton County Jail for this very problem. I have returned to Texas on Father's Day, June 15th, 2008. I have now lost my job as a result of this incarseration. I have returned home to pick up the pieces of the broken life of my mother and family. I was in jail for 6 weeks for a felony non-support case which my exwife filed against me. I have had to borrowed over 1100.00 to get bonded out of jail. I have retained an attorney which will easily cost me over 3,000.00 (if I am lucky). I am facing extradtion fees of around 2000.00, county cost of 1000.00, DNA fees of 250.00, court costs, and probation or parole fees, which can be astronomical. Not to mention that I will most likely leave with a felony, which will prevent me from getting a decent job in the future, once my mother passes away. Moreover, my child support has continued to accrue while I was incarserated. I have to return to Arkansas for the civil part of my child support modification request. OCSE's, Michael Shone has stated in a reponse to a motion to modify my child support, that I chose to care for my elderly mother, knowing that I had an obligation to pay 779.00 a month. In early 2005, I requested a modification to be done by OCSE. At that time my case worker did not explain to me that just filing the 8 page form and returning it to their office was not enough to change the obligatory amount. I returned this form to OCSE and I have requested open files about my child support case 2 times from both Arknasas' and Texas'Attorney Generals Child Support Divisions, respectively. Neither one has given this enformation requested. The only thing they give me is a copy of my payment history. The open file will contain communicaiton that I have had with their office and myself. One will find that I have been in contact with the Child Support offices on a regular basis. I have an interstate child support case between Arkansas, Benton County, and Texas, Tarrant County. I have 4 daughter's from one marriage of 12 years. My x-wife, Patricia C. Todd, has told me that she contacted the child support office in Arkansas to help her collect the arrears amount I have on file. This amount was over 38,000.00 in November 2007. I am now in arrears of over 42,000.00 as of June 2008. They told her that they can not do much to help her because I live in Texas. They recommended that she go to the Prosecuting Attorney's office in Benton County, 479-271-1028 (?). I wish for my case to remain in Texas, and I had agreed to pay 65% of my income. It is my understanding that Texas law is to withhold only 50% up to the amount. Again, I am now unemployed and very frustrated with the system. My child support is set through Benton County at 179.00 per week. The child support is collected through the Texas Office out of Fort Worth. My case worker there has taken over my case this past month. Her name is Arlette Hampton. She can be reached at 817-926-7197 or 1-800-778-9982. I was working for The Coffee House Gallery, 609 S. Jennings, Fort Worth, TX 76104, 817-335-4646. Again, I had requested that my employer take out 65% of my income to pay extra monies. She had done this and had written a letter for me to provide to the appropriate persons involved in helping me fix my problem. Of course it is too late for this to do any good. My situation is very desperate. I have been my mother's primary care take since 1999. She and one of my sisters, Sylvia Garcia, lived with my x-wife and I the last 2 years of my marriage. Sylvia is a special needs person. She is 51 and is mentally disabled. She now lives in a nursing home, Community Care Center on Lueda St, 817-332-7003, in Fort Worth, TX. My mother suffers from dementia, diabetes, COPD, and several other debilitating health problems. I have had to become my mother's primary care-taker because another of my sisters, Sandra Garcia, breached her fiduciary duty and spent everything my mother had. Sandra then sold my mother's home for $15,000.00 to her boyfriend in October, 2004. I went through Probate Court 1, Tarrant County, to file for Guardianship in January 2005, to try to help save her home. My mother lost her home and was evicted on August 13th, 2007. I have records from the Courts of Tarrant County, doctor's statements showing that I am the in this situation. These documents are all on record with Tarrant County as well. Once again, as I mentioned earlier, I requested that my child support be modified in 2005. The Child Support Office in Arkansas and Texas both have this on file. My case worker in Arkansas was a lady named Dana. While I was in jail, my case worker has changed 2 times, and now I am being told that my case has been moved to OCSE's Legal office, where I getting less assistance from. I am told that I had to request in writing for proof of the request for modification. I have done this and sent a request in writing. The child support office seems to not want to relinquish this information and has only returned my payment history to me. I believe that I will need this proof when I go to court for the criminal part of my legal problems regarding my child support issues. In September 2007, I sent 50.00. In November 2007, I sent 50.00. In December 2007, I sent 400.00 directly to my children so that they would get the money before Christmas. In January, I sent 100.00. I have receipts for these monies and have requested that they be put in my file. I have also sent 80.11, 240.00, 240.00, and 220.00 through my employer, prior to being arrested. I know that this was not much, but it is all I was able to send. Again, I had made arrangements to have money sent every pay period to the Child Support Office. I have been in contact with my children almost every day. I know that I have taken for granted that my x-wife makes over 90,000.00 a year. She will be completing her DR. degree very soon and will jump in the Rogers Public Schools pay scale a substancial amount very soon. She is an administrator in Rogers Public Schools, in Arkansas. She directs the ESL and Migrant Program. She is remarried and it is my understanding that her new husband, Bruce Todd, is having legal problems with his child support. I know that they were separated in November and that they are trying to work things out. My three oldest daughters each have their own cell phones. They have 4 computers in the home. My ex-wife has just purchased them new guitars. In December, they purchased a 56" television. I am confused as to how my oldest daughter, Megan is driving on a spare tire, while these large purchases are being made. Patricia went to the Prosecuting Attorney to attempt to have the courts monitor my child support case the way Bruce's is done. She told me today that it was not her intention to have me put in jail. However, that appears is what will now happen. Patricia has filed a felony non-support case against me. In the mean time, I am living on Food Stamp to survive and be able to care for my mother. Again, if I am convicted of a felony, I will not be able to get the assistance I need to survive from the Department of Human Services, to vote, or many other things. I am honestly scared and do not know what to do to fix this. I need advise and help. I do not have money for an attorney, but Joanne McCrackin, of Garfield, AR has agreed to let me make payments and will represent me. I had been contacting Deputy G. Leddy, 817-884-1320, every day. Deputy Leddy had the warrant for my arrest. He came to arrest me on Tuesday, the night of the caucuses. I just happened to be participating in the caucus that night when he came by. My mother answered the door and is panicking. Her dementia and fear of not having me here to care for her is too much for her. I had made arrangements for my mother to go to Colorado. She was brought back to Fort Worth the end of April because my sister Rita McCullough was unable to give her the care she needed. Rita lives in Bailey, Colorado, in the mountains. My mother returned to my home and my friends have been helping to care for her while I was in jail for about 4 weeks of my 6.5 weeks of incarseration. My friends have all loaned me money to bond out, so that they can get on with their lives. Please let me know of any organizations, government help, or anything that I can do. I can be reached at 817-995-3539 any time. Again, please help me or refer me to someone who can. Sincerely, Alberto Garcia My family and friends have bonded me out of Benton County Jail for this very problem. I have returned to Texas on Father’s Day, June 15th, 2008. I have now lost my job as a result of this incarseration. I have returned home to pick up the pieces of the broken life of my mother and family.

I was in jail for 6 weeks for a felony non-support case which my exwife filed against me. I have had to borrowed over 1100.00 to get bonded out of jail. I have retained an attorney which will easily cost me over 3,000.00 (if I am lucky). I am facing extradtion fees of around 2000.00, county cost of 1000.00, DNA fees of 250.00, court costs, and probation or parole fees, which can be astronomical. Not to mention that I will most likely leave with a felony, which will prevent me from getting a decent job in the future, once my mother passes away. Moreover, my child support has continued to accrue while I was incarserated. I have to return to Arkansas for the civil part of my child support modification request. OCSE’s, Michael Shone has stated in a reponse to a motion to modify my child support, that I chose to care for my elderly mother, knowing that I had an obligation to pay 779.00 a month. In early 2005, I requested a modification to be done by OCSE. At that time my case worker did not explain to me that just filing the 8 page form and returning it to their office was not enough to change the obligatory amount. I returned this form to OCSE and I have requested open files about my child support case 2 times from both Arknasas’ and Texas’Attorney Generals Child Support Divisions, respectively. Neither one has given this enformation requested. The only thing they give me is a copy of my payment history. The open file will contain communicaiton that I have had with their office and myself. One will find that I have been in contact with the Child Support offices on a regular basis.

I have an interstate child support case between Arkansas, Benton County, and Texas, Tarrant County. I have 4 daughter’s from one marriage of 12 years. My x-wife, Patricia C. Todd, has told me that she contacted the child support office in Arkansas to help her collect the arrears amount I have on file. This amount was over 38,000.00 in November 2007. I am now in arrears of over 42,000.00 as of June 2008. They told her that they can not do much to help her because I live in Texas. They recommended that she go to the Prosecuting Attorney’s office in Benton County, 479-271-1028 (?).

I wish for my case to remain in Texas, and I had agreed to pay 65% of my income. It is my understanding that Texas law is to withhold only 50% up to the amount. Again, I am now unemployed and very frustrated with the system.

My child support is set through Benton County at 179.00 per week. The child support is collected through the Texas Office out of Fort Worth. My case worker there has taken over my case this past month. Her name is Arlette Hampton. She can be reached at 817-926-7197 or 1-800-778-9982.

I was working for The Coffee House Gallery, 609 S. Jennings, Fort Worth, TX 76104, 817-335-4646. Again, I had requested that my employer take out 65% of my income to pay extra monies. She had done this and had written a letter for me to provide to the appropriate persons involved in helping me fix my problem. Of course it is too late for this to do any good.

My situation is very desperate. I have been my mother’s primary care take since 1999. She and one of my sisters, Sylvia Garcia, lived with my x-wife and I the last 2 years of my marriage. Sylvia is a special needs person. She is 51 and is mentally disabled. She now lives in a nursing home, Community Care Center on Lueda St, 817-332-7003, in Fort Worth, TX. My mother suffers from dementia, diabetes, COPD, and several other debilitating health problems. I have had to become my mother’s primary care-taker because another of my sisters, Sandra Garcia, breached her fiduciary duty and spent everything my mother had. Sandra then sold my mother’s home for $15,000.00 to her boyfriend in October, 2004. I went through Probate Court 1, Tarrant County, to file for Guardianship in January 2005, to try to help save her home. My mother lost her home and was evicted on August 13th, 2007. I have records from the Courts of Tarrant County, doctor’s statements showing that I am the in this situation. These documents are all on record with Tarrant County as well.

Once again, as I mentioned earlier, I requested that my child support be modified in 2005. The Child Support Office in Arkansas and Texas both have this on file. My case worker in Arkansas was a lady named Dana. While I was in jail, my case worker has changed 2 times, and now I am being told that my case has been moved to OCSE’s Legal office, where I getting less assistance from. I am told that I had to request in writing for proof of the request for modification. I have done this and sent a request in writing. The child support office seems to not want to relinquish this information and has only returned my payment history to me. I believe that I will need this proof when I go to court for the criminal part of my legal problems regarding my child support issues.

In September 2007, I sent 50.00. In November 2007, I sent 50.00. In December 2007, I sent 400.00 directly to my children so that they would get the money before Christmas. In January, I sent 100.00. I have receipts for these monies and have requested that they be put in my file. I have also sent 80.11, 240.00, 240.00, and 220.00 through my employer, prior to being arrested. I know that this was not much, but it is all I was able to send. Again, I had made arrangements to have money sent every pay period to the Child Support Office.

I have been in contact with my children almost every day. I know that I have taken for granted that my x-wife makes over 90,000.00 a year. She will be completing her DR. degree very soon and will jump in the Rogers Public Schools pay scale a substancial amount very soon. She is an administrator in Rogers Public Schools, in Arkansas. She directs the ESL and Migrant Program. She is remarried and it is my understanding that her new husband, Bruce Todd, is having legal problems with his child support. I know that they were separated in November and that they are trying to work things out.

My three oldest daughters each have their own cell phones. They have 4 computers in the home. My ex-wife has just purchased them new guitars. In December, they purchased a 56″ television. I am confused as to how my oldest daughter, Megan is driving on a spare tire, while these large purchases are being made.

Patricia went to the Prosecuting Attorney to attempt to have the courts monitor my child support case the way Bruce’s is done. She told me today that it was not her intention to have me put in jail. However, that appears is what will now happen. Patricia has filed a felony non-support case against me.

In the mean time, I am living on Food Stamp to survive and be able to care for my mother.

Again, if I am convicted of a felony, I will not be able to get the assistance I need to survive from the Department of Human Services, to vote, or many other things. I am honestly scared and do not know what to do to fix this. I need advise and help. I do not have money for an attorney, but Joanne McCrackin, of Garfield, AR has agreed to let me make payments and will represent me.

I had been contacting Deputy G. Leddy, 817-884-1320, every day. Deputy Leddy had the warrant for my arrest. He came to arrest me on Tuesday, the night of the caucuses. I just happened to be participating in the caucus that night when he came by. My mother answered the door and is panicking. Her dementia and fear of not having me here to care for her is too much for her. I had made arrangements for my mother to go to Colorado. She was brought back to Fort Worth the end of April because my sister Rita McCullough was unable to give her the care she needed. Rita lives in Bailey, Colorado, in the mountains. My mother returned to my home and my friends have been helping to care for her while I was in jail for about 4 weeks of my 6.5 weeks of incarseration. My friends have all loaned me money to bond out, so that they can get on with their lives.

Please let me know of any organizations, government help, or anything that I can do.

I can be reached at 817-995-3539 any time.

Again, please help me or refer me to someone who can.

Sincerely,
Alberto Garcia

]]> By: jojefos http://www.bloggernews.net/111673#comment-265601 jojefos Sun, 23 Mar 2008 14:05:32 +0000 http://www.bloggernews.net/111673#comment-265601 FYI The judge who gave a man 20 years and the one who sentenced a man to "spend the holidays in jail" are a married couple. FYI The judge who gave a man 20 years and the one who sentenced a man to “spend the holidays in jail” are a married couple.

]]> By: shevita http://www.bloggernews.net/111673#comment-125456 shevita Tue, 13 Nov 2007 21:26:26 +0000 http://www.bloggernews.net/111673#comment-125456 I meant,i agree with the argument. It is very similar to what happened to me and my siblings. I meant,i agree with the argument. It is very similar to what happened to me and my siblings.

]]> By: shevita http://www.bloggernews.net/111673#comment-125455 shevita Tue, 13 Nov 2007 21:24:17 +0000 http://www.bloggernews.net/111673#comment-125455 I agree with the argument. It is ery similar to what happene to me an my siblings. I agree with the argument. It is ery similar to what happene to me an my siblings.

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