Sad Mom

by Jessica
(Warsaw, IN)

My daughter is almost 7 years old. Her father was ordered to pay $47 a week in child support, December 2004, when my daughter was 6 months old. Her father is behind over $5,000. He works for a few months, quits his job, then goes out and gets a job whenever he gets pressure from the mother of one of his 5 children. I work a low paying job and can hardly make it. I have no resources to fight him legally so I don't know what to do. He knows how to work the system. He and his wife run a home business but all of it is in his wife's name.......2 cars, 2 trucks, house, business, boat etc......It's sad that I have paid upwards of $80 a week for childcare for years and he isn't required to pay even that. Forget having money to provide my daughter with any extras. I lost my low paying job a month ago. I don't qualify for unemployment. I have several serious illnesses and now have no health insurance. I don't qualify for Medicaid. We are getting food stamps. I will lose my car, my home, everything I have worked for 10 years to have. If he had to pay the amount he is behind, we would have enough money to live on till I find another job. I am actively searching for a job that will pay enough to support me and my daughter. I don't expect much of any help from her father. He paid me $33.33 last week. First payment I've received in 7 months. He's starting the cycle over again. I bet he'll probably quit his job by June 1st and pay any support for another 6 months or more until one of the mothers of his children turn him in..........