my husbands sad story
by Emily
(Washington)
My husband is Currently serving our country in the army about 3 years ago a girl he was sleeping with called him and told him that she was 7 weeks pregnant which was funny to him because he had only been sleeping with her for 5 weeks then she proceeded to tell him that it was possible that someone else was the father as well. That was the last he heard from her. He deployed to Iraq for 15 months and when he came home 2 months later he got papers saying he owed child support for a 15-month-old son. He never knew this child existed in fact he didn’t know the child was his until he requested a dna test. On April 17th he found out that he was indeed the father On April 30th he got mail saying that if he did not pay $8,456 by May 30th that the back owed child support was going to be referred to a collection agency My husband was giving a month to pay over $8000 very unfair... on top of that they calculated that the amount he owes in child support is based on his pay he received while he was in Iraq serving out country not knowing he had a child. When you are deployed your pay goes up and you do not get taxes taken out of your check so the amount they calculated is incorrect because he pays child support like he is still deployed and it is not accurate I don’t know what to do to help my husband fight the amount he owes and the amount he pays we are awaiting the arrival of our first child together and i want to make sure that this child is taken care of.