Last year a 60 year old man I know, got robbed through the child support system here in WI.
He has been divorced from that first wife for over 20 years. His children are in their 30’s or 40’s.
The ex-wife decided that she wanted to retire and looked into whether or not she could go after the ex-husband for supposed back child support before some ridiculous deadline of 20 years expired. Turns out she could still go after him and do so without any court hearings at all.
He did not owe anything. However he also no longer had proof he paid all of it since it was 20 years ago.
Well, without him ever going before a judge or getting anything more than a letter from her and the state, they took $22,000 dollars from him.
He says he not only paid all support all those years ago, but he also bought the children (as young adults) expensive things that were not counted in the payments like cars etc.
He got ripped off and had no say whatsoever. It devastated him. He also lost his job last year and still has not found work.
That evil woman (and I am a woman and I know evil when I see it) took him to the cleaners so she could be on easy street.
Heh.
Meet my husband’s ex-wife.
$22,000 bucks won't last somebody like that very long.
My bet is that it didn't even make a dent in her credit card debt.
More and more every day I am reminded of Mrs. Rivers, my seventh grade teacher. She used to tell us kids, “A GOOD woman is better than any man but a BAD woman is worse than any man that ever lived”.