Man Spends 180 In Jail For Paying Child Support and Visiting Son Too Often
The Broken Strong Man- by Jerone L. Davison
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HOUSTON, TX — A father will spend half of 2014 behind bars for doing too much for his son. After breaking terms that were secretly modified without his knowledge — a judge sentenced him to a lengthy jail sentence.
Clifford Hall has been doing his best to care for his 11-year-old son, who lives with his ex-wife. He pays his child support and visits regularly. “I’m his father it’s my responsibility to take care of him,” Hall said.
Last November, his child support payments were paid in full. Sometime between then and now, the child support agreement between Hall and his wife were modified without his knowledge. Hall wound up overpaying by $3,000, a fact that Harris County District Court Judge Lisa Millard found contemptible.
Another term that was modified without his knowledge was his visitation schedule. Subsequently, Hall was found to have over-visited his son. Judge Millard found Hall (the support paying father) in contempt of court.
“When she said I remand you to the Harris County Jail for 180 days my mouth just dropped,” Hall said.
In addition to the six month jail sentence, Judge Millard is forcing Hall to pay his ex-wife’s attorney fees.
“I can’t be there for my son in jail,” Hall said. “I can’t pay child support in jail. This is not in the best interest of the child.”
Such heavy-handed actions on the part of the court is contemptuously ridiculous and the courts should be fined and the judge serve time in jail. Good men suffer such action's by the courts on a daily. Meanwhile his son without his father, the father's freedom is taken away and is losing time at work but the jails are filled and I think that is what's important for many of the courts and their backroom conspiracy meetings planning to keep the money factory going by filling the county jails and prisons. Not only is the child going to be deprived of his father for 6 months, but taxpayers will have to pay the innocent father’s incarceration, and will potentially be forced to subsidize the mother’s living expenses in lieu of the child support payments.
I shared a similar incident that happened to me in my first blog (May 7th 2014) http://thebrokenstrongman.blogspot.com/.
I have written a new book "The Broken Strong Man" I deal with this such topic's as this Houston man and why the suicide rates among divorced men are much higher and how to win the emotional on-slot.
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