Emergency payment Friday will keep the parents of Alabama's first sextuplets from losing home

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[chance33_98]

Birmingham - Sextuplets Finances

An emergency payment Friday will keep the parents of Alabama's first sextuplets from losing their Center Point home. For now. But Diamond Harris, who gave birth on July 7th to two girls and four boys, and her husband, Christopher Harris, are in a tough financial spot. The Straits have only delayed a foreclosure sale of their three-bedroom, three-bath home that was planned for Monday. The couple was a double-income family until Diamond developed complications during her pregnancy. The family is more than 5-thousand dollars behind on their mortgage payments. A payment of 14-hundred dollars collected by relatives yesterday will keep the bank, Citimortgage, at bay for the meantime. The father said the family had to swallow its pride to ask for financial help from relatives.

[chance33_98]

Ouch. If the man was on welfare or an illegal the left would be passing legislation to help them out. We planned on having a kid someday and lived according to one income, all things aside I hope this works out for the family.

[chance33_98]

More Info:

Harris: Family Living Off His Teacher Salary, Earnings As Part-Time Tutor

POSTED: 11:10 a.m. CDT October 5, 2002

UPDATED: 11:22 a.m. CDT October 5, 2002

CENTER POINT, Ala. -- The parents of Alabama's first sextuplets are on the brink of losing their home in suburban Birmingham to mortgage foreclosure as financial woes have multiplied since the newborns arrived.

The sextuplets -- two girls and four boys -- were born July 7 to Diamond Harris and husband Christopher Harris.

Relatives have donated $1,440 toward the $5,000 in delinquent house payments to avoid a foreclosure sale set for Monday.

The Harrises were notified Sept. 12 that the Center Point home would be sold on the steps of the Jefferson County Courthouse.

The family lawyer, Lawrence Cooper, said the Harrises were more than $5,000 behind on payments to CitiMortgage Inc., but the relatives' donations stalled the sale for now.

Harris said the family has been living off his teacher salary and earnings as a part-time tutor. His wife had worked as a licensed practical nurse but had to quit last winter because of pregnancy complications.

At one point, he says, she nearly died. Efforts to reach CitiMortgage were unsuccessful.

[chance33_98]

Prayers up for this family. I am sure one could argue it is mainly their fault for getting into this postition, etc, but I still hate to see this happen to anyone. We all make mistakes, let's hope they can get out of this jam.

[ValerieUSA]

These American banks lend money to foreign countries and lose billions all the time - but they sure come down hard on fellow citizens in a tough spot. The gov't doesn't bail them out then, like they bail out politicians and lawyers from their savings and loan fiascos.

[daddio]

My wife and I have sextuplets as well and we are more than $10k behind. There is no help available and nowhere to turn. The best that can happen for these folks is that someone would pay off their mortgage. The expenses are extremely overwhelming and except for a special few, most high order multiple families are left holding the bag for life. Sometimes, as in our case, there are disabilities that will require lifelong care. The infertility doctors need to be held accountable and they are the ones that get off with not even a slap on the hand.

[chance33_98]

The infertility doctors need to be held accountable and they are the ones that get off with not even a slap on the hand.

I will defer to your experience on this matter, what happened with the whole thing? Did he/she say they could help with getting your wife pregnant and fail to monitor what they were doing? I have never had to go that route so am unclear as to the process. I am, admittedly, ignorant of what generally happens in these cases and how they progress.

How old are your kids now, and wife wants to know if you have pics (did not see any profile page, if your new to FR I can help you out with getting pics up there if you wish to, the ones on my page are uploaded to my website and if you need space I have plenty). God bless!