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>Subject: Raven's Rant of the Day (AAARRGGHHH)
>From: ravenraingoddess@aol.com  (RavenRainGoddess)
>Date: 5/5/2003 12:42 PM Eastern Standard Time
>Message-id: <20030505124205.21021.00000616@mb-m18.aol.com>
>
>Today's topic is our messed-up legal family court system.  I have gone to
>court
>FIVE TIMES to try to get child support.  In August, the judge ruled that he
>had
>to pay $50 a month (YES, you read that right - FIFTY DOLLARS) and gave him 6
>months to find a job, at which time we'd go back to court, and adjust it. 
>
>So, we went back to court on 3/21 (which is actually SEVEN months, but
>anyway),
>or rather *I* went back to court, as the ex didn't show.  The judge checked
>his
>records, and his secretary had sent the paperwork to the wrong address.  He
>said that he'd reschedule and send another order out.
>
>So I called his office about 3 weeks later and the secretary said "Well, I
>have
>to get the judge's order to reschedule, and he hasn't said anything to me
>about
>it."
>
>So I wait & wait - still no new hearing.  Still collecting a whopping $50 a
>month in support.  So today, I'm just PO'd enough to call again.  I get a
>different secretary.  This one is very nice & tells me "Of course, we need to
>get that rescheduled!"  I'm nearly in tears of gratitude until she tells me
>"Looks like the earliest available date is JULY SEVENTH".
>
>Change that to tears of frustration.  The nice secretary is going to try to
>fit
>it in earlier if possible, but I am SOOOOO upset at the system right now.   
>WHY does he not have to support his child?!?!  Before the judge adjusted it
>to
>$50, he ran up over $5,000 in arrearages.  I hear all these men complaining
>"Oh, I have to pay my ex-wife $600 a month in support" or whatever - and I'm
>getting FIFTY GODDAM DOLLARS.
>
>I lost my job in August, and was unemployed for three months.  Did I get to
>stop paying my rent, electric bill, day care, etc?  Nope.  But he gets to go
>whining to the judge, saying "Oh, I hurt my back 3 years ago, I have another
>baby to take care of now, blah blah blah" and the judge says, "Ok, well,
>don't
>worry about the kid you already have, no problem."
>
>Let's just encourage all deadbeats to go running around with their pants
>down,
>shall we???
>
>Raven.  Get another lawyer!  Apparently he does not have a job.
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