Child support is often an integral financial support in the life of a child. When payments are late or even nonexistent, it can sometimes be detrimental to the child’s best interest. Sometimes music lessons or new shoes might have to wait until the payments are received — if not something more vital like food or heat payments being made on time by the custodial parent. One Texas father claims that despite falling behind on his child support payments due to a clerical mistake, he was all paid-up when he was sentenced to jail time.
It was a clerical error that originally landed the man in hot water. Apparently, a mistake occurred with his automatic withdrawals from his paycheck, which in turn resulted in shorted child support payments. When he received a notice that he owed several thousand dollars in overdue support payments, he promptly paid it back.
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