AZ Child Support didn't care about me or my children.
by Tracy Douglas
I had three children. I had to give one of them up because I never received one single court ordered payment until , of course , my husband (we're still legally married) became incarcerated for two years. The support order was promptly modified in his favor. And so for two yrs, I recieved 13.00 per month for two children. When he was released? The payments stopped. However, the modified support amount stayed the same. By this time, my children and I had become homeless. I briefly reunited with my husband and became pregnant with our third. He promised us that he would be there for us and for the new baby. He lied. After one yr. I had to give my son over to my parents to raise. They raised him as their son. My mom even tried to make him call me Aunt Tracy. She had control over my heart saying that she would eventually adopt him. Instead, she collected welfare on him and I soon found myself oweing support as well as being owed. If I had even recieved half of the original support amount Things may have been different. If the original amount had been reinstated as quickly as it had modified to practically nothing(13.00) Who knows where I would be or what I could have done for my children. Arizona says that I am not owed one red cent but that I now owe over 28,000.00 dollars for my son. But I have two grown daughters now with kids of their own who were completely brushed under the rug by the Az child support enforcement. I struggled all of my life to keep my daughters safe and warm. I wasn't always able to do that. We were homeless alot , living with people , struggling every day.
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