My question involves child support in the State of: Texas
I'm posting relating a child support that my father had been involved in. Basically last September, his ex-wife had filed for child support modification through court, thinking that my dad makes over $6k/month.
My father is an independent contractor for a trucking company which he partially owns with me. Although his gross income seems high, after all deductions, his net income on 1099 has come out to about $24k/year for the past 5 years.
The opposing attorney requested for us to produce pay stubs and evidence of employment for the past 6 years, and unfortunately our inexperienced lawyer who was protecting my father's side, agreed that we would produce those things. Unfortunately, that was not possible for us to do so, as we just cannot produce some of the thing that are back dated so far.
Long story short, we have lost the case in June, and my father was ordered to pay $1100 + $500 for the past difference, which comes out to 1/2 of what my dad actually makes. Opposing attorney has also locked his personal accounts, including one that I had with him as a joint account since I was 16, as WAMU requires a parent to be on the same account with minor to receive a visa card. He took the money that I was going to use to pay my college tuition this upcoming semester, but looks like I will be staying home now. I tried calling that attorney along with people from WAMU, but he just ignored us.
My father was not able to pay the ordered amount and cannot pay it in a near future. So we have received a citation from that attorney which is for enforcement of child support, stating that if the court grants it, my dad would be spend 180 days in jail for each occurance.
He needs to appear in Sept., and since he not fluent in English, is there anything I can do to help? we cannot afford a lawyer and I dont know what I am going to do if they put him in jail for not being able to pay the amount they ordered.
Texas law states that he should pay 20% of disposable salary as child support, meaning that other attorney calculated it as $10000/month.
-Eduard.

