Unfairly Labeled by My Drug Addicted Ex.
by Ron Hernandez
(Putnam)
I have been unfairly labeled a dead beat dad by my drug addicted ex. I am the father of a now 20 year old girl, C. who has not lived at her mothers house for two years now because of problems in the home. I've heard stories of drug use and mental and physical abuse at the home, from my daughter after the fact. She came to live with me in 2006 for 5 months, which I received NO CREDIT from child support for, when the problem became to much for her too handle. She wound up having an underlying medical problem and thus returned to her mothers home town for care. She was not allowed to come back because I was seeking child support. C. winds up moving out of the house 3 months later and has not lived there since then. She was 18 at the time and out of school so my obligation to her mother SHOULD have ended, but NO. I still continued to pay and be charged for child support. I went to court because her mother wanted more money, even though my daughter did NOT live there. She didn't show up for court and they dismissed the case. So shes been harrassing me and my family for money to support her crack habit. She's been calling me requesting I send her money. So now due to the intelligent Child Support offices REFUSAL to answer my request to stop payments, since October 2008 I have acrued $6000 in arrears. Now she went to court and had a warrant issued for my arrest based on this BS. I have NO CLUE what to do now! I'm NOT going to stand by and just get arrested. BUT due to the intelligent Child Support enforcement I now have to quit my job and leave town to save my reputation and life. I don't want to go to jail, but they didn't listen to my requests to stop payments so now I have to destroy my life because she has ruined hers and the courts don't care about FATHER'S RIGHTS!!!!