More Child Support Ignorance.(240)
Court knew man jailed for a year for non-support was not child's father By BILL RANKIN The Atlanta Journal-Constitution 7:13 p.m. Tuesday, July 14, 2009 Frank Hatley has languished in a South Georgia jail for more than a year. The reason? He failed to reimburse the state for all the public assistance his “son” received over the past two decades. The problem? Hatley is not the biological father -- and a special assistant state attorney general and a judge knew it but jailed Hatley anyway. “I feel bad for the man,” Cook County Sheriff Johnny Daughtrey said Tuesday. “Put yourself in that man’s shoes: If it wasn’t your child, would you want to be paying child support for him?” Daughtrey said he hopes a hearing Wednesday will resolve the matter. Hatley has been held at the county jail in Adel since June 25, 2008, costing the county an estimated $35 to $40 a day. Even after learning he was not the father, Hatley paid thousands of dollars the state said he owed for support. After losing his job and becoming homeless, he still made payments out of his unemployment benefits. Hatley’s lawyer, Sarah Geraghty of the Southern Center for Human Rights in Atlanta, said two independent DNA tests -- one nine years ago and one just a few days ago -- prove he is not the biological father. “This is a case of excessive zeal to recover money trumping common sense,” she said. “What possible legitimate reason can the state have to pursue Mr. Hatley for child support when he does not have any children?” It may be difficult for Hatley to get out from under the court order, said Atlanta family lawyer Randall Kessler, who is not associated with the case. “It’s definitely unfair,” Kessler said. “But at the same time, he’s dealing with a valid court order.” Russ Willard, a spokesman for the state attorney general, said if Hatley can show at the hearing that he is indigent, the state will not oppose his release. Willard said Hatley could have applied to the state Office of Child Support Services to request that he be relieved of his obligations. He said Hatley has not made such a request. According to court filings, Hatley was never told that he could have a court-appointed lawyer if he could not afford one. Geraghty said she only recently took on Hatley as a client after the sheriff asked her to talk to Hatley about his predicament. Geraghty said Hatley had paid a total of $9,524.05 in support since April 1995, but records of payments before that time are not available. In the 1980s, Hatley had a relationship with Essie Lee Morrison, who became pregnant, had a baby boy and told Hatley the child was his, according to court records. The couple never married and split up shortly after Travon was born in 1987. In 1989, Morrison applied for public assistance through the state Department of Human Resources. The state then moved to get Hatley to reimburse the cost of Travon’s support, and Hatley agreed because he believed Travon was his son. But in 2000, DNA samples from Hatley and Travon showed the two were not related, according to a court records. With the help of a Georgia Legal Services lawyer, Hatley went to court and was relieved of his responsibility to pay future child support. But he still had to deal with being a deadbeat dad when it was assumed that he was really the dad. Homerville lawyer Charles Reddick, working as a special assistant state attorney general, prepared an order requiring Hatley to pay the $16,398 he still owed the state for child support. The Aug. 21, 2001 order, signed by Cook County Superior Court Judge Dane Perkins, acknowledges that Hatley was not Travon’s father. After that, Hatley paid almost $6,000. But last year he was laid off from his job unloading charcoal grills from shipping containers. He became homeless and lived in his car. Still, Hatley made some child support payments using his unemployment benefits. By May 2008, he apparently had not paid enough. In another order prepared by Reddick and signed by Perkins, Hatley was found in contempt and jailed. When he is released, the order said, Hatley must continue making payments to the state at a rate of $250 a month. |
And I bet you - he will never ever get a single dime of that back. And the woman who started it all - prolly sitting up laughing. Anywho....have a friend going through similar crap. He was married - 5 years. Child was conceived in the marriage so of course he thought it was his. (men should never assume this - every child should undergo a paternity test) Well along came tonsil time - and both parents were tested as a precaution. Bingo!!! He is not the daddy! So they get a divorce. Court tells him - since he signed the birth certificate, and assume he was the father - he must pay child support until child is 18 at $849.00 a month. What did the ex-wife do upon leaving court - call his arse a sucker. Talk about some kind of mad. And he has been in and out of courts for the past 2 years - and nothing has changed...and it does not appear it ever will. And his amount has increased once already due to inflation. And he has to pay 50% of medical bills. Meanwhile the real daddy out there making more babies - and getting other folks caught up in the child support game. I ont know if my kids are mine or not. I mean I need a maternity test. Im tired of taking care of them. LOL They some other woman's kids! I woke up and realized I had to stop faking Me out of the Me I would become. - J. Scott http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCF3ywukQYA “A woman carries her clothes, but it’s a shoe that carries the woman.” – Christian Louboutin
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Essie Lee Morrison Travon
Don't even hafta ask huh.
Man ... and to just even THINK this broad is walking around free is another travesty in itself. If when Frank got out and he shot her and a couple of other mofoze I wouldn't approve ... but I WOULD understand. Thisis somma the coldest shid I've read in awhile. Wow. Everybody KNOWS the kid ain't yours yet YOU'RE the one locked up. Jesus Mary and Joseph ... |
| Gotta ask this question. If Jesus was born in this day and age would Joseph be required to pay child support?
"Sometimes you have to grab the bull by the horns and give it a headache"- Mellys' Quest for Truth and Understanding" "It isn't the voices in my head shouting all day long...it's that one voice at the end of the night asking if there's room for one more" - Mellys Book of Redemptive Qualities "There will be no world peace without Jello Pudding"- The Wisdom of El Gato |
| I don't even know what to say. Called him a 'sucka'. Insane. |
| You already know. |
| That some sad stuff right there why wouldn't the state go after the mother once finding out dude is not the father of the child, plus the child is grown now let the kid kick in some cash for the BS his mother did.
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| That is an EXCELLENT question. Mind if I borrow this for facebook? LOL! |
Man ... and to just even THINK this broad is walking around free is another travesty in itself. If when Frank got out and he shot her and a couple of other mofoze I wouldn't approve ... but I WOULD understand. Thisis somma the coldest shid I've read in awhile. Wow.
The biitch should be found somewhere face down in a ditch. Justifiable homicide. Damn.
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Gotta ask this question. If Jesus was born in this day and age would Joseph be required to pay child support? Are you calling God a deadbeat dad Mel? LOL *********************************************************************************************** Think about the fact that everything you know, you don't know, you have only been regurgitating stuff you have been conditioned to believe is real. |
| I am so glad you are back. There has been a huge vacuum of good threads in your abscence. I don't mind if you use that at all. I mean what would the attending physician think when Amry put the real fathers name on the birth certificate? Uh huh. See where this is going? The Doctor is gonna look at her and then look at Joseph..."One of ya'all is either plum crazy or lying"
"Sometimes you have to grab the bull by the horns and give it a headache"- Mellys' Quest for Truth and Understanding" "It isn't the voices in my head shouting all day long...it's that one voice at the end of the night asking if there's room for one more" - Mellys Book of Redemptive Qualities "There will be no world peace without Jello Pudding"- The Wisdom of El Gato |
I know exactly what to say... Excuse the vulgar terms... I WAS TEMPORARILY INSANE WHEN I SHOT THAT BEEOTCH IN HER FOKKING HEAD AND LET DOGS PI.S.S AND CHYT ALL OVER HER DECAPITATED CORPSE AND HANG HER BUTT NEK.KID IN FRONT OF THE COURT HOUSE WITH MARKINGS ON HER BODY THAT SAID FOK THE SYSTEM!!! I can say this - you can't. If you said it - you would be a pig for even thinking it. I woke up and realized I had to stop faking Me out of the Me I would become. - J. Scott http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCF3ywukQYA “A woman carries her clothes, but it’s a shoe that carries the woman.” – Christian Louboutin
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He'd be as stuck as Chuck. Well ... maybe not. If he and Mary stuck to that immaculate conception business there's a good chance both would find themselves at a CPS-inspired and initiated district court competency hearing and if found non-compus mentus by the court they'd have their parental rights yanked and Joseph would be off the hook. |
Yeah. Vietnamese. It's soooo obvious. *snickering like hell* |
| Hmmmm. Jesus raised as a ward of the State? Just wait till they hear him talking about his real Daddy. What would his therapist say at staff meetings?
"Sometimes you have to grab the bull by the horns and give it a headache"- Mellys' Quest for Truth and Understanding" "It isn't the voices in my head shouting all day long...it's that one voice at the end of the night asking if there's room for one more" - Mellys Book of Redemptive Qualities "There will be no world peace without Jello Pudding"- The Wisdom of El Gato |
You know it babe. Face down ... <<<body ova there and head ova here>>> |
| Oh No. Don't like lightning. Especially up the keister. All I'm asking is what would be on the birth certificate? But the issue of how Josephs wages would be garnished is a valid one. You know in todays economy carpenters are experiencing a downturn in work due to lack of new home constructuion. And I guess God could do some otherworldly direct deposit thing.
"Sometimes you have to grab the bull by the horns and give it a headache"- Mellys' Quest for Truth and Understanding" "It isn't the voices in my head shouting all day long...it's that one voice at the end of the night asking if there's room for one more" - Mellys Book of Redemptive Qualities "There will be no world peace without Jello Pudding"- The Wisdom of El Gato |
We need a grass-roots organization lobbying to make women testify under oath that the child is the man's that way they can be brought up on perjury charges. This makes no sense. I am mad because the dude was TRYING, it wasn't like he was ducking his responsibility This turned my whole day Comment all you like. Just don't disagree with me - japugingozi
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| In fact i'm wrong for actually responding to your post thus proving that I even read it and by reading it had the actual thought in my head. |
| FTFO!! Jesus in foster care. |