Being Taking Advantage Of

**general** · 10-31-2006, 02:31 PM

I was put on child support in 2001, when the judge awarded me to pay her only $56.00 a week she was enraged. After the ruling she informed me that she wanted to take me off child support, and I could start making payments to her directly, and here I thought she was doing me a favor because I was told that by being on child support it would prevent me from being a citizen, and since I’m not form here I beleived it. So she wrote a letter requesting to remove me off child support, I went with her and dropped it off , and she informed me that the judge granted her request, So I doubled check by calling the department of revenue, where she originally filed the case and they informed me that it was indeed canceled. so 4 years later I get a call from her private attorney telling me that I owed $14,000 in back child support for the child I never taken care of, AND ALL OF THIS TIME I'VE BEEN MAKING PAYMENTS TO HER DIRECTLY, I would put the money in her account, and since she moved to Georgia, and I live in Florida I would give it to the grandmother to put it in her account, and I always confirm if she received it.
furthermore her private attorney which I found out is really a collection agency called child support networks, is threatening to cancel my diver license and work visa/ passport, for a child that I’ve been taken care of since birth, I’ve already went to the court house and filed a motion for credit for payments made to her directly, and I have 2 reliable witnesses that can confirm that I would give her money. I’ve also begun making payments on the back child support to the Florida disbursement unit, and I was wondering is there anything else I can do because I believe that she is definitely committing some type of fraud.

**seniorjudge** · 10-31-2006, 03:24 PM

...I’ve also begun making payments on the back child support to the Florida disbursement unit, and I was wondering is there anything else I can do....

This sounds like an excellent start to me.

**aaron** · 10-31-2006, 04:54 PM

Check with the agency which was supposed to be handling your support payments to see what proof they would accept of direct payment, and submit proof. Or get help from a lawyer to do the same thing, if possible, either with the agency or directly to the court.