Reply #134: Hard for me to believe

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that a woman can have an affair with her boyfriend, have a kid, leave her husband, and then get a court to force the ex to pay child support for the boyfriend's kid when the wife, kid and boyfriend are living together.

There was a celebrated case not far from me in Big Spring Texas that made one of the 60 Minutes clone shows a year or two ago. The ex was refusing to pay, and was having his wages taken, and was being threatened with prison. Just seems insane to me.

Saw another show where in California, there was apparently a law that if the state orders you to pay child support, you have a certain length of time to challenge the ruling, otherwise you default your right to protest. Anyway, the show had a whole group of men who had the same name as someone else and they had gotten child support orders, didn't know anything about them so threw them out, and were now having their wages taken to pay for kids that they had never heard of and had no relation to. They had the state official on and he said the judgement was for not complying with the law and whether the person was the father or not had nothing to do with it. One guy was a 70 year-old Mexican immigrant who was being charged child support for a two year old and his 21 year old mom who he lived 100 miles away from and he never met.

This was a couple of years ago. Hopefully such stupidity has been changed.

I got to correct my first subject line. Thanks for the edit of subject addition.