What is wrong with this picture?
Just how evil or out of touch are our state legislatures that allow this sort of behavior?
Interesting story from CNN
Always get a DNA test. This man paid child support for someone elses child for 13 years.
The state continued to demand $16,000 in back 'child support' after he proved the child was not his because they had a 'consent agreement'. That is just wrong.
Furthermore, They still have a hold on his drivers license. They still have a hold on his income tax refunds.
Link to the full story at CNN
ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- A Georgia man who spent a year in jail for nonpayment of child support -- despite the fact he has no children -- has been cleared of the debt, his attorney said Tuesday.  undefined Frank Hatley, 50, spent 13 months in jail for being a deadbeat dad before his release last month. A judge ordered him jailed in June 2008 for failing to support his "son" -- a child who DNA tests proved was not fathered by Hatley. Last week, Cook County Superior Court Judge Dane Perkins signed an order stating, "defendant is no longer responsible for paying any amount of child support." The order permits the state's Office of Child Support Services to close its file on Hatley. ... He returned to court and was relieved of any future child support payments, but was ordered to pay more than $16,000 he owed the state before the ruling. Since 2000, Hatley paid that debt down to about $10,000, Geraghty said. Court documents showed he was jailed for six months in 2006 for falling behind on payments during a period of unemployment, but afterward he resumed making payments, continuing to do so even after he lost another job and became homeless in 2008. But last year he became unable to make the payments and was jailed. The argument for keeping Hatley liable for the back payments, according to the attorney who represented him in 2000, was that he signed a consent agreement with the Office of Child Support Services. The court agreed that Hatley had to comply with the consent agreement for the period he believed the child was his son, said attorney Latesha Bradley. WOW. That is just evil behavior on the part of the court.
A FRAUD is proven, and the man still has to comply. Seesh
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