Childless man freed after serving time for child support violations

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Childless man freed after serving time for child support violations

By Mariano Castillo
CNN
(CNN) -- Frank Hatley spent the past year in jail for being a deadbeat dad. But there's one problem -- Hatley doesn't have any children. And the "deadbeat" label doesn't fit the 50-year-old either, his supporters say. After a hearing, Hatley was released from the Cook County Jail in south Georgia Wednesday afternoon, with the help of the Southern Center for Human Rights.
Superior Court Judge Dane Perkins ruled that Hatley was indigent and should not be jailed for not being able to make child support payments. Perkins postponed a decision on whether Hatley should have to make any more back payments on child-support for a child who is not his. In June of last year, a judge ordered Hatley to jail for failing to reimburse the state for public assistance that was paid to support his "son," who, as the court was aware, is not actually his son.
What kind of fucked up, backwards Southern shit is that?!?! :mad: No wonder so many people don't trust the alleged justice system in this country. They knowingly sent an innocent man to jail! :261: That flies in the face of everything for which this country allegedly stands. :irked:

The story dates back to 1986, when Hatley had a relationship with Essie Lee Morrison. She became pregnant and gave birth to a son. Morrison told Hatley that the child was his, but the couple ended their relationship shortly after the boy's birth, according to court documents. The couple never married and never lived together, the documents state. When the boy turned 2, Morrison applied for public support for her son. Under Georgia law, the state can go after the non-custodial parent to recoup the assistance.
IMHO - Essie Lee Morrison is a lying cheating cunt; :angryfire2: and y'all know I don't use that word lightly. It's stuff like this that makes an otherwise decent man hate and mistrust all women; not to mention the fucked up version of justice that was initially dispatched in this case. Cunts like her make it hard for good, decent women like myself and others everywhere.
 

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I keep telling you to get out of that state because it will turn your brain to mush... or grits. If I never set foot in Georgia I will not be disappointed.
 

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They should really change these laws or else men would be afraid to marry women. This stupid justice system even rewards women that are at fault in a divorce even the ones that cheat. I read the divorce laws out of New York and they are almost as bad. There were cases in which a man marries a single mom and then divorced and was forced to pay alimony and child support to the child born out of wedlock that is not biologically his. And he didn't even adopt the step son! The judge ruled that if he marries the woman, he automatically adopts the son even without signing adoption papers.
 
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They should really change these laws or else men would be afraid to marry women. This stupid justice system even rewards women that are at fault in a divorce even the ones that cheat. I read the divorce laws out of New York and they are almost as bad. There were cases in which a man marries a single mom and then divorced and was forced to pay alimony and child support to the child born out of wedlock that is not biologically his. And he didn't even adopt the step son! The judge ruled that if he marries the woman, he automatically adopts the son even without signing adoption papers.

New York's divorce laws are archaic. A couple in divorce can't even live apart under New York law as the person who leaves will be charged with constructive abandonment and thus sway court opinion to the remaining spouse and that's even if both people agree to live apart!
 

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They should really change these laws or else men would be afraid to marry women. This stupid justice system even rewards women that are at fault in a divorce even the ones that cheat. I read the divorce laws out of New York and they are almost as bad. There were cases in which a man marries a single mom and then divorced and was forced to pay alimony and child support to the child born out of wedlock that is not biologically his. And he didn't even adopt the step son! The judge ruled that if he marries the woman, he automatically adopts the son even without signing adoption papers.
That's asinine!:mad:
 

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This kind of thing often comes down to failure to defend one's rights.

You can, for example, LOSE copyright ownership to a book, painting or song simply by failing to prosecute a single case of infringement.

You can assume responsibility for for something that you are not responsible for.
In making a SINGLE support payment, uncontested, you acknowledge your responsibility for a child regardless of your biological contribution.

Another example is when you get called in by the IRS or some other tax agency... the first thing they want you to do is sign a document saying you understand you owe them money.
They threaten you with dire consequences if you don't sign, and promise to go easy on you if you do...

But it does not matter if, later, you can prove that they were mistaken and you don't owe them a dime... signing that document means you owe them the money.


If you suspect that you are not the father of a child, you contest it.

The trouble is how many of us assume the woman is true... how many simply accept it when she says we are the father.


Telling, that the judge did not let him out for not being the father...but because you can't ask someone who has no income to pay support. Support is based upon ability to pay...


There is some other guy in jail in New York- been in jail for 8 years, because the wife CLaimed he had millions of dollars... even though the guy has shown he has no money.

He was never even convicted of anything... he's been in jail 8 years on a CONTEMPT citation.

Oddly enough, you have no recourse to any form of appeal, when in jail for contempt...
He could be in there the rest of his life, with no trial, and no opportunity to even prove that he doesn't have the money his ex-wife claimed.