The jails are full of "deadbeat" dads.
How many "deadbeat mom's are in the can right now?
I'm a single father. I got custody of my daughters 1 1/2 years after my divorce.
Right after my separation I was ordered to pay $300 a week child support.
I opened a new checking account and got those generic checks while I waited for the ones with my name printed on them to arrive.
I sent my payment in on the generic checks for 6 weeks.
Then I got my bank statement...all the child support money was still in my account.
The next day I got all my checks back from child support saying they were unacceptable cuz my name wasn't printed on them.
So according to them I was $1800 in the rears...wtf?
I went to the bank on Friday...took out $1800 in cash, went to the courthouse and made a cash payment to even things up.
I went home thinking I had straighted things out. Then there was a knock on my door. It was the Monroe County Sheriff's dept with a warrant for my arrest for failure to pay child support.
I told them my story and showed the cops the receipt for the payment I just made, returned checks from the state and the letter.
The one cop made a phone call but the person he needed to speak to had gone home already. So I got taken into custody.
The Sheriffs were cool and didn't cuff me and explained they had to execute the warrant.
Being it was the weekend I had to spend it in jail cuz I couldn't see a judge till monday.
But...I was never sent to county, I spent it at the Sheriffs office cuz the cops knew it was a mistake and kept "losing" the paperwork for me to be processed.
Went to see the judge Monday and was released...duh.
Now here is the kicker.
I have had custody of my youngest for 3 1/2 years(my oldest is 20 now)and I haven't received one dime of the court order child support from my ex and the courts have done nothing to make her pay the $36,000 + she's in the rears for.
Father...6 weeks in the rears = a weekend in jail....Mom...3 1/2 years in the rears = not a damn thing