illegal child support

[adam07]

I was living in Omaha 6 years ago and got caught up with a drug addict stipper. We had a baby. She was crazy and had me arresteda couple times sayin I assaulted her which I obviously never would do. The second time she did that I was in Jail awaiting a trial and was served papers to pay child support. That wouldn't have been so bad if I had my day in court. Somehow she went to court, in the same county I was in jail, and I never knew about the court date and the jail never took me to the hearing. They charged me $480 per month for 1 kid and when I went in I was working at a temp place for $7-8/ hr. This seems like a violation of my rights and a lawsuit in the making? needless to say I am way in the whole now since i never made enough to pay that. The mother lost her parental rights and the grandmother can't take care of them and wants me to take them. she has custody now.

 

[Duranie]

Adam you need to call around to an attorney or legal aid to see if they can help you. Is this all being handled out of NE? If paternity was established then you have rights to this child. Seems like CS was calculated incorrectly. I would even google some fathers rights groups. You'll need to apply for a reduction in CS-try going to the NE CS Bureau website.

If mom cannot take care of this child you have a right to custody but you need to act now. You might even go down to the court house to see if they have a family law fascilitator that can point you in the right direction.

http://www.hhs.state.ne.us/cse/cseindex.htm