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In reply to the discussion: I May be Going to Debtor's Prison [View all]Horse with no Name
(34,204 posts)let me interject.
No divorce is the same. None of them.
How would you take it if a NCP refused to give medications to a child and put that child in harm's way each and every time he had possession... left this same child at the hands of his drug addict girlfriend--the same one that he cheated on his unknowing spouse with and hid the fact that they had children together who in turn left the child with HER married lovers in another town and previously with her own drug addicted sister who went to jail and lost her own children? A man who is worth a million dollars...yet withholds child support each and every month for 60 days...because he can...drops insurance on child every chance he gets...starts shit every single time he can and then tape records the results of this...tries to have mother thrown in jail because she dared ask about health insurance (he was laughed out of sheriff office)...and 3 years worth of emotional abuse directed to the mother of his child?
The groundwork has been laid for this man to have court supervised visits...but we aren't there yet....BUT should his financial assets be withheld from the child if the courts decide that this child is in too much danger from being in his presence? How is that fair?
The mother did nothing wrong except choose a sociopath for a husband--and it was hidden very well. So...according to you, if he ends up losing his rights because he is an idiot and a danger to the child...the child loses out. Never mind the money it took the Mother to fight for the safety of her child or the lasting damage that has been done to this child from the visits that have already transpired. It is TRAUMATIC for this child to go, but she is too young to have a voice in the process yet.
And IF a man is able to act like this and loses full parental rights because of his actions--then WHY shouldn't he still pay for the child? For crying out loud...he just paid an attorney close to $250k to fight us and even his shady attorney thought he was nuts and fired him immediately after the proceedings...at the same time we were providing ours with an additional retainer for Round 2.
There would be an EPIDEMIC of NCP's doing children harm to keep from having to pay support.
Now, in our situation, if this loser would just sign over rights and move on down the road...we'd welcome that in a heartbeat. But if we have to go through the courts to get the same outcome, he'll pay to the fullest extent that the court allows AND we will gladly make sure he goes to jail at each and every opportunity that is available to us.